Powering Communities: Making Connections with Southline

The Southline Transmission Project is addressing the challenge of transporting power to communities head on by building a 278-mile, high-voltage, bidirectional transmission line from New Mexico to Arizona to move electricity from where it’s generated to where it’s needed most to power homes and economic growth. Southline is bringing much needed new transmission capacity to the Southwest, a region where the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Transmission Needs Study estimates that by 2030, 935 gigawatt-miles of new transmission is needed to ensure reliability and lower energy costs for consumers. Learn more about how the Grid Deployment Office’s Transmission Facilitation program will help build out new interregional transmission lines across the country: www.energy.gov/gdo/transmission-facilitation-program.