Utah-based Intermountain Consumer Power Association (ICPA) convened with Southern California localities in a quest for newer power sources and for investors. The IPA established in June 1977. A crucial step for Path 27 came with the Intermountain Power Project (IPP), which emerged in 1974 as a program for financing the construction of a coal-fired generator, though it was not until 1977 that Utah's legislatures formally endorsed IPA's implementation of the project. Caineville in Wayne County, UT, was one of several locations suggested for the power plant, prior to settling upon the site north of Delta in Millard County, or west of Lynndyl as stated in the sanction. After clearing environmental checks, the generator broke ground on October 9, 1981, with $300 million in initial funds. The original plan called for four thermal units, 750 MW aside, but it had decreased to two due to concerns over precipitous power demand. The generator's first unit was erected in 1983. The first batch of coal was delivered by train on July 2, 1985, and the first unit came online later that year. The second unit was actuated on June 13, 1987, bringing the plant to its fullest capacity of 1,500 MW. It would be bolstered to its present-day 1,900-MW productivity in 1989, hence rendering the electrical generator the largest in Utah by yield. However, Path 27 fully materialized when the transmission line's construction commenced on May 1, 1984, and took slightly more than sixteen months to complete. Various American contractors were commissioned for certain aspects and segments of the line; for instance, one entity from Georgia built worth from Adelanto, California to Moapa, Nevada, and another from Mississippi took on the remaining till Delta; but perhaps the most notable obligation for this turnkey project rested upon ABB Group, who imported the conductive cables and pieces for the steel-lattice support pylons to be assembled on the spot. One phase entailed the emplacement of the pylons' cement foundations, which are in average depth per pylon and vary in shape based on the tower's height and weight. Newspapers reported that rocky, jagged terrain often posed challenges for accessibility and had likely necessitated copious excavation and even dynamiting. In all, six hundred workers were deployed for the labor. The line achieved revenue service in July 1986 after the ignition of the power plant's first coal-burning unit, even though a document by LADWP attests that it might have