Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Tonopah, Arizona on Thursday for a groundbreaking event at the Ten West Link transmission line, a project that aims to increase energy accessibility and reliability through California and Arizona.
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Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Tonopah, Arizona on Thursday for a groundbreaking event at the Ten West Link transmission line
The line “will deliver electricity from wind and solar farms out here in the desert to big cities, like Phoenix and Los Angeles and San Diego, and to rural communities,” Harris said
Harris noted the transmission line will also protect communities at risk of severe weather events like floods and drought by strengthening the grid against potential overloads or outages
After her stop in Arizona, Harris will embark for her home state of California, where after weeks of rain and flooding, she…