Long Slog to Build Power Lines May Imperil Obama’s Carbon Cuts
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A seven-year quest to connect windmills in Kansas to customers as far away as Virginia highlights a challenge facing the Obama administration’s plan to use renewable energy to cut carbon emissions: getting transmission lines built to carry the electricity.
Clean Line Energy Partners’ 780-mile Grain Belt Express, proposed in 2008, has already been reviewed by regulators in four states. Even if everything goes as planned, it will be four more years before electricity starts flowing.