To overcome the chicken-and-egg conundrum around transmission and deployment of remote renewable energy, coordinated generation and transmission planning, which isn’t the practice in many regions today, is really critical.
Wind generators show strong demand for Clean Line’s Grain Belt Express
Clean Line Energy (Clean Line) received requests for more than 20,000 megawatts (MW) of transmission service for the Grain Belt Express Clean Line in its open solicitation process, representing more than four-and-a-half times the available capacity of the transmission line. All requests for transmission service came from wind generators who require new transmission infrastructure to…
High voltage dc line planned to cross Iowa
Although wind development is surging in many states, transmission developments lag. The problem is conventional transmission lines. They are hobbled by a lack of capacity. Clean Line Energy Partners have several plans to address the issue. One, the Rock Island Clean Line, is a proposal to construct and operate a roughly 500-mile overhead electrical transmission…
Building a Kansas sized wind-data network
Clean Line Energy Partners LLC of Houston, Texas and WindPole Ventures in Arlington, Mass. Say they’ll build a wind-resource-monitoring network in southwestern Kansas to support the planned Grain Belt Express Clean Line transmission project, which will deliver thousands of MW of low cost, renewable energy from Kansas to Southeastern Missouri and points farther east. Clean…