What is Green Path North?

 According to the City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), Green Path North is a proposed 500-kilovolt (kV) transmission system designed to bring electricity generated from renewable resources, such as geothermal, solar and wind, from Imperial County to the City of Los Angeles power grid. The planned rating is for 1200 megawatts of capacity with the potential to upgrade to 1600 megawatts. We now know that Green Path North will bring with it very large utility scale projects like solar and wind. These projects require thousands of acres of public lands to be scraped and destroyed forever, and the use of millions of gallons of water from the area's aquifers.
The proposed transmission system will connect a new electrical substation near the existing Lugo substation in Hesperia with a new substation to be built near the existing Devers substation, tentatively called Devers II, near Palm Springs. This transmission route has been outlined in the Right-of-Way application to the BLM for Federal Lands access, submitted in December 2006. This new energy transmission route would affect native plants and wildlife as well as the living conditions and property values in the Joshua Tree National Park area.

This project is being developed by LADWP, Imperial Irrigation District, Citizens Energy, and the Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA). They claim the purpose is to facilitate delivery of green energy, such as geothermal and solar from Imperial County to the City of Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California. This project WILL NOT benefit our area at all, rather destroy it! Consequently it should be called "Greed Path!"  

Project Participants
LADWP, the nation’s largest municipal utility company, serves 1.4 million customers in the City of Los Angeles, and owns and operates its own transmission network.

Imperial Irrigation District is an independent public power transmission provider and one of five control areas in California. As a consumer-owned utility, Imperial Irrigation District supplies electricity to 140,000 customers in the Coachella Valley, Imperial Valley, and parts of San Diego County. Green Path North is one of IID’s Coordinated Green Path Projects .

SCPPA is a Joint Powers Authority (formed under the Joint Powers Act of the California Legislature in 1980) that includes 12 public power agency members in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Imperial counties.

Citizens Energy is no longer participating!

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What is
Green Path North?

Citizens Energy, initially a major partner in the Green Path Project, has suddenly removed itself from participation. Citizens Energy's financial contribution to the Green Path Project was expected to be near 200 million dollars, of which about 60 million dollars would have been contributed specifically to the Green Path North leg of the Project. LADWP and IID are running out of support for this misguided and environmentally destructive project. Everyone from local town councils and associations to the County Board of Supervisors and even Congressman Jerry Lewis have voiced strong opposition to the blasting, bulldozing, and scraping of the Green Path North project!