Path 64

Path 64 or the Marketplace - Adelanto line is a 202-mile (325 km) 500-kilovolt power line that runs from the Adelanto substation near Adelanto, California and the High Desert to the Marketplace substation near Boulder City, Nevada.^[1]^[2] Path 64 is one part of the Path 46 transmission system in southeastern California.^[3]^[4] This power line is operated by Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP). This line, along with Path 27 and the other Path 46 lines, bring over 10,000 megawatts of electrical power to the Los Angeles area. Path 64 is an essential line for powering Los Angeles.^[4]

Route

The 500 kV power line begins in the Adelanto substation, where two 500 kV lines from the San Fernando Valley and Victorville substation terminate. On top of that, this is where the Adelanto inverter station or the southern terminus of the HVDC Intermountain line (Path 27) is located. As the line leaves Adelanto substation, the 500 kV line follows Highway 395 for a distance northwest. At Kramer Junction (intersection with State Route 58), the line abruptly turns east in the Mojave Desert. The power line meets up with the other Path 46 power lines and the Intermountain DC line and the Path 64 wire parallels the transmission corridor for a distance; all of the wires at this point are heading northeast. At a certain point, the line splits off and heads east towards Interstate 15 and parallels the highway closely until Primm across the California-Nevada border, as the line heads northeast. Past the border, the Path 64 wire loosely parallels the now scattered Path 46 wires until all of these wires terminate at the Eldorado - Marketplace - McCullough substation complex. For the Path 64 wire, the line terminates at Marketplace substation, where the long Path 63 wire from Arizona terminates also.^[1]^[3]^[4]

Power transmission capacity

The lone 500 kV power line can transmit 1,200 MW of electrical power.^[2]^[3]

References

1 2 Route descriptions and tower designs are based on Google Earth images.
1 2 "SCPPA Mead-Adelanto Transmission Project". Southern California Public Power Authority. Archived from the original on 2007-12-14. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
1 2 3 Paths 61-70, Western Electricity Coordinating Council, 2006
1 2 3 Paths 41-50, Western Electricity Coordinating Council, 2006

Major electric power transmission corridors of the Western United States

Alternating current	One Nevada Path 3 Path 4 Path 5 Path 6 Path 8 Path 9 Path 10-11 Path 14 Path 15 Path 21 Path 22 Path 26 Path 45 Path 46 Path 49 Path 51 Path 54 Path 61 Path 62 Path 63 Path 64 Path 66 Path 71 Path 73 Path 75

Direct current	Path 27 (Intermountain) Pacific DC Intertie (Path 65)

Energy resource facilities in Nevada

Coal fired	Mohave North Valmy Reid Gardner

Gas fired	Chuck Lenzie Edward W. Clark Fort Churchill Frank A. Tracy Harry Allen Silverhawk Toquop Walter M. Higgins

Geothermal	Beowawe Blue Mountain Faulkner 1 Brady Hot Springs Clayton Valley 1 Desert Peak Dixie Valley Galena 2 Galena 3 Homestretch Jersey Valley McGinnis Hills North Valley Pumpernickel Richard Burdette San Emidio Soda Lake Steamboat Hills Steamboat Springs Stillwater Tuscarora Wabuska

Hydroelectric	Davis Dam Hoover Dam

Solar	Apex Boulder Copper Mountain Crescent Dunes Edward W. Clark El Dorado Mountain View Nellis Nevada Solar One Silver State North Silver State South Stillwater Toquop

Wind	Spring Valley Wind Farm

Natural gas pipelines	Kern River Pipeline Ruby Pipeline

Petroleum pipelines	Calnev Pipeline Unev pipeline

Transmission lines	One Nevada Path 27 Path 46 Path 62 Path 64

Substations	Marketplace substation Mead substation

Other	Goodsprings Waste Heat Recovery Station

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