In a 35-page lawsuit filed late Friday in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, the Orange County municipality asked the court to stop the project, citing reports of excess power on the state’s electric grid.
The San Juan Capistrano project would rebuild and upgrade a portion of the transmission system in south Orange County. The project, dubbed the South Orange County Reliability Enhancement project, was approved by the utilities commission in December and is expected to take more than five years to complete.