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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

The Westin Hotel Anaheim (above, top right)
Anaheim, CA
Big Sky North Substation, Simi Valley, CA GC/Owner: KCS West | FJS, Inc. a Texas Corporation
In October 2018, Rosendin's Renewable Energy Group will Contract Value: $30.25M
complete the Big Sky North Substation for SPower. The new
substation is designed to provide 660 MW of clean solar Square Footage: 629,657
renewable energy connected to the original Big Sky Substation Anticipated Completion Date: March 2020
that REI completed in 2016. Rosendin is responsible for all design,
procurement and installation for this scope of work. New round up 8-story hotel that will include 613
rooms, three restaurants and a rooftop lounge.
In order to connect to Big Sky Original Substation, REI had to
install an additional 230 kV equipment at Big Sky and a 3.08 mile
underground 230 kV transmission line from Big Sky to the Big Sky
North Substation. REI worked with subcontractor, PLC, to design
an installation method that would trench a 2’ x 2’ x 5’ deep trench,
install 2 – 8” HDPE pipes, and 2 - 2” HDPE pipes, complete with JW Marriott Anaheim (middle right, bottom right)
Anaheim, CA
thermal concrete backfill, in one pass.
GC/Owner: W.E. O’Neil Construction | GardenWalk
The Big Sky North Substation equipment itself consists of the Hotel I, LLC
largest 230 kV air core reactors Trench Corporation has ever built Contract Value: $14.1M
(25.535 MVAR), a Siemens 241 mVA, 230 kV to 34.5 kV volt GSU Square Footage: 600,000
transformer, an ABB 230 kV volt breaker, and miscellaneous other Anticipated Completion Date: August 2019
electrical apparatuses including a control building to convey power
to the power grid.
12-story hotel that will hold 466 guest rooms at the
Rosendin self-performed all civil, concrete foundations, steel GardenWalk mall.
installation and electrical connections inside the substation.
Currently, there is 105 MW of solar power connected with
designed capacity for future expansions. Once all expansions are
complete, a total of 990 MW of solar lean power will be added to
the grid.

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