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Counties hope to develop wind energy in NW Kansas
It's a twist on the classic conundrum of which came first, the chicken or the egg?
As far as counties and developers are concerned in the wind-rich region of northwest Kansas, it's more of a question of which needs to come first, the wind farms or the transmission line to move the electricity produced by the spinning turbine blades?
ITC Great Plains Receives Siting Approval for the Kansas V-Plan Transmission Line Project
TOPEKA, Kan., July 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ITC Great Plains, LLC yesterday received siting approval from the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) for the V-Plan high-voltage electric transmission line, a project designed to connect eastern and western Kansas. The route approved by the KCC for the 345,000 volt (345kV) double-circuit line runs approximately 122 miles through southwestern Kansas from the existing Spearville substation to two new substations: the Clark County substation in northern Clark County and the Thistle substation east of Medicine Lodge in central Barber County.