JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A proposal for a high-voltage power line carrying
wind energy across the Midwest has received a jolt of new life after the
Missouri Supreme Court ruled that regulators wrongly rejected it.
The court ruling Tuesday means that Missouri must re-evaluate whether Clean
Line Energy Partners deserve approval for a $2.3 billion project that would
build one of the longest electric transmission lines in the U.S.
Plans call for the line to run from wind farms in western Kansas across
Missouri and Illinois before hooking into a power grid in Indiana that serves
the eastern U.S.
Clean Line has been working on the so-called Grain Belt Express power line
since 2010 but hasn’t been able to start construction because of regulatory
hurdles.
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