There is a project moving quietly through Sacramento that will change rural North County forever, and most of the people who will live with it have never heard its name.
It is called the Golden Pacific Powerlink.
A 145-mile, 500-kilovolt transmission line. Steel lattice towers up to 200 feet tall, the height of a 20-story building. A right-of-way hundreds of feet wide. A price tag of $2.3 billion, with San Diego County ratepayers on the hook for roughly 9 percent of it. Scheduled to go live in 2032…