Regulators approved the Grain Belt Express, a wind-energy power line that will transport wind energy from Kansas to Missouri and Illinois before connecting to a power grid in Indiana.
Regulators on Thursday gave the go-ahead for a multistate wind-energy power line to provide the equivalent of four nuclear power plants' worth of energy to Missouri consumers. At issue is the Grain Belt Express, a power line that will carry wind energy from Kansas across Missouri and Illinois before hooking into a power grid in Indiana that serves eastern states.
Various municipal utilities in Missouri have long intended to buy power from the project, but now five times as much electricity will be delivered to the state — rising from 500 to 2,500 megawatts — compared to earlier plans.
want this line to benefit everyone to the maximum extent practicable,' Hahn said. 'I don't think this order goes far enough.'
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