Route
From the south, the Intermountain DC circuit starts at the Adelanto substation and static inverter plant. The line heads east for a short distance, until two 500 kV circuits and one 287 kV tower line (all carrying LADWP Path 46 power) meet the DC line from the Victorville substation, which the DC line bypasses. Heading together, the four lines head generally northeast, paralleling Interstate 15 and spanning over the highway at two places. An additional line, called Path 64, but part of Path 46, parallels the Interstate 15 and the four lines until the California-Nevada border.
The DC line diverges from the other three 500 kV lines and the 287 kV line until the three 500 kV lines terminate at the Eldorado, Marketplace and the McCullough substations. As for the DC line, the line heads in a more northerly direction as it traverses through southeastern Nevada and Clark County with another 500 kV line from McCullough substation. This 500 kV AC line spans across Interstate 15 with the DC line and the 500 kV line passes through Crystal substation, which the DC line bypasses.
From Nevada on north into Utah, the DC line generally parallels the 500 kV AC line and Interstate 15. The DC line turns gradually to head north-northeast and separates from Interstate 15. As for the 500 kV (Path 21) line, the line turns and heads east, spanning over the Colorado River. The DC line continues to head north-northeast out of sight of Interstate 15 as the line crosses high mountains and large desert basins until it turns east in west-central Utah and terminates at the Intermountain substation.
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