If Fort Collins is successful in its bid to change plans for a high-voltage power line construction project, electric customers in four cities could hold the bag for increased costs.
The Dixon-Horseshoe 230-kilovolt power line, one of the largest in the region, was approved in 2005 to connect a substation in west Fort Collins with one in Loveland just off West 57th Street near Taft Avenue.
So far, the Platte River Power Authority has spent $21.3 million to finish two-thirds of the 7-mile-long power line designed and built by PRPA, the electric utility owned by Fort Collins, Loveland, Longmont and Estes Park.
Another $8.4 million is available to finish the job, scheduled for completion early next year, which would add greater reliability to Loveland`s power system at a time when demands upon it are rising.
Read the rest of this report at .
