Madison, Wis., – RMT’s WindConnect® recently completed the engineering and construction of the Fowler Ridge I Wind Farm, a 400-megawatt (MW) facility owned by BP Wind Energy and Dominion Resources, Inc. The facility is located in Benton County, about 90 miles northwest of Indianapolis. As the balance-of-plant (BOP) contractor for Fowler Ridge I, RMT performed [...]
St. Paul, Minn. – The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission granted the CapX2020 utilities a Certificate of Need to construct three 345-kilovolt electric transmission lines in Minnesota. The decision confirms the need for a major upgrade of the region’s transmission system to meet customers’ growing demand for electricity and to increase access to new resources, including [...]
Portland – The Bonneville Power Administration has decided to build a major new transmission project – the McNary-John Day 500-kilovolt transmission line. The $246 million project will create about 700 jobs at its peak. When energized in late 2012, the line will allow BPA to provide transmission service to more than 870 megawatts of energy, [...]
TULSA, Okla., — Williams (NYSE: WMB) announced plans to build a pipeline in Alberta, Canada, to transport natural gas liquids and olefins from its extraction plant in Fort McMurray to its Redwater processing facility. Williams currently processes off-gas from Suncor Energy’s (NYSE and TSX: SU) oil-sands facility in the Fort McMurray area, extracts the natural [...]
Improvements Necessary in Wisconsin to Maintain System Stability MINNEAPOLIS —Upper Midwest utilities have identified improvements needed in the region’s high-voltage electricity transmission system to ensure they can deliver the renewable energy necessary to meet Minnesota’s renewable energy milestones beginning in 2016. Minnesota’s 2007 Next Generation Energy Act requires that utilities increase renewables on their systems [...]
Idaho Power and Portland General Electric (PGE) announced they signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) as the basis for cooperation on proposed transmission lines originating near the city of Boardman in eastern Oregon. Idaho Power applied for permits to construct a proposed 300-mile, 500 kilovolt (kV) transmission line connecting the Boardman power plant with the [...]
ST. LOUIS, MO. - LS Power affiliate Great Basin Transmission, LLC (“GBT”) announced a second Open Season for the purchase of long-term point-to-point transmission rights on the Southwest Intertie Project (“SWIP”). Successful bidders in the second Open Season (“Open Season 2”) will secure firm transmission rights to deliver energy to attractive liquid power markets in [...]
Maple Grove, Minn. – Great River Energy has issued a request for proposals for renewable energy resources (RFP) and other power generation resources with low or no net carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Great River Energy is subject to the Minnesota Renewable Energy Standard, which requires electric utilities to supply an increasing percentage of their energy [...]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Duke Energy will build between 100 and 400 electricity-generating mini solar power plants throughout North Carolina over the next two years in one of the first large-scale initiatives of its kind in the U.S., CEO Jim Rogers said. “Solar and wind are both going to be key parts of our strategy going [...]
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved transmission infrastructure investment rate incentives for a proposed 3,000-mile regional “green power superhighway” designed to deliver wind-powered renewable energy from the upper Midwest to consumers in and around Chicago, Minneapolis and other load centers. Green Power Express LP designed the project to provide consumers the benefits associated with [...]
