The initial segment of the country’s most expensive infrastructure project is getting a utility-scale clean power system.
Brightline West, the proposed high-speed railway connecting Las Vegas to suburban L.A. by private equity billionaire Wes Edens, also intends to rely on carbon-free electricity. Unlike California’s plan, it will purchase power from operators of large desert solar fields.
“No one has done it, but everybody's starting to think about” relying solely on renewables, said Ryan Scott, director of high-speed systems for Network Rail Consulting, a U.K. firm that’s helping California plan its power system. The California railway is being constructed on land the state purchased in its main agricultural heartland, on viaducts built over fields and former commercial properties between Merced and Bakersfield. It will run through areas that would require significant, very costly upgrades to the existing power grid to be able to handle the power requirements of a bullet train.
Contractors work on the Cedar Viaduct during construction of a high-speed rail project in Fresno County, California.“At times of peak grid stress, we'll be able to use some of the electricity from the batteries to feed back to the grid — kind of serving like a power plant in a way,” Cederoth said.
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