The US’ largest clean energy infrastructure project is kicking off construction

SunZia, a massive wind power and transmission line project in the US Southwest, is ready to start construction.

The project is made up of two arms: SunZia Wind and SunZia Transmission.

SunZia Wind is the largest wind project in the Western Hemisphere. The 3,500-megawatt (MW) wind farm sprawls across New Mexico’s counties of Torrance, Lincoln, and San Miguel.

SunZia Transmission is a 550-mile ± 525 kV high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission line between central New Mexico and south-central Arizona. It has the capacity to transport 3,000 MW of clean energy.

SunZia Transmission will enable SunZia Wind to supply customers in Arizona and California during early evening hours when demand is high but the available renewable energy supply is low. It’s going to use the same corridor as the Western Spirit Transmission Line:

The project’s California-based renewable energy developer Pattern Energy Group said today that it’s selected Hitachi Energy and Quanta Services as its engineering, procurement, and construction contractors to build the project.

Hitachi Energy, which has delivered more than half of the HVDC projects in North America, will supply the HVDC converter stations as well as its HVDC Light technology and MACH digital control platform for SunZia Transmission. Hitachi’s technology enables the efficient transfer and integration of huge volumes of renewable energy over long distances.

Infrastructure provider Quanta will provide a “turnkey solution” for the HVDC line, and Blattner Company, a Quanta operating company, will also provide “turnkey solutions” for SunZia Wind and its associated switchyard. That includes the installation of more than 900 turbines, 10 substations, multiple operations and maintenance facilities, and more than 100 miles of wind generation transmission lines.

Pattern says SunZia, which represents an investment of more than $5 billion, will “power the needs of more than 3 million Americans.” It is expected to create over 2,000 new jobs, has an expected economic impact of $20.5 billion, and is expected to come online in 2026.

https://electrek.co/2023/05/04/us-largest-clean-energy-infrastructure-project-sunzia/

DIARY DETAILS HORROR OF JESUIT PREDATOR’S 85 VICTIMS

Pope Francis' instructor, top Vatican Jesuit covered up pederast priest

The Society of Jesus in Bolivia has suspended and begun investigating eight former provincials for their roles in protecting a fellow Jesuit who abused more than 85 males, including several seminarians, in the 1980s.

Father Alfonso Pedrajas Moreno's predation was covered up at the order's highest levels in Rome by Pope Francis' tertianship instructor, Fr. José Arroyo, and by Fr. Marcos Recolons, assistant ad providentiam to Fr. Adolfo Nicolás, the Jesuit superior general from 2008 to 2016.

Father Recolons, a Catalan Jesuit, is one of the eight superiors who has been suspended and is under investigation for protecting the homopredator Fr. Pedrajas, a Spanish missionary, who was popularly known in Bolivia as "Padre Pica," the Bolivian Society of Jesus confirmed.

Recolons is also accused of bribing and expelling Pedro Lima, a Bolivian Jesuit whistleblower who threatened to "denounce the sexual abuse" of Pedrajas and two other Jesuit homopredator priests: Fr. Luis Tó and Fr. Antonio Gausset Capdevila.

As admonitor, Fr. Recolons was responsible for warning (or admonishing) the Superior General honestly and confidentially on matters of his spiritual and physical health and "what in him he thinks would be for the greater service and glory of God" [Const. N°770].

Another leading Jesuit involved in the cover-up is the late Fr. José Arroyo, who served as instructor to Pope Francis during the future pope's tertianship in 1970–71 and downplayed Pedrajas' sins and crimes when he served as instructor during Pedrajas' tertianship in 1978.

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/superiors-cover-up-jesuit-homopredator