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Governor Sam Brownback: Wind Offers Clean Path to Growth
The moment is approaching when our nation must decide how it’s going to power the future. Experience has taught us that investment in the renewable-energy economy is creating jobs across all employment sectors. The price of Kansas wind is now competitive with the traditional sources of energy, and you can get guaranteed rates for the next 20 years. Continue reading
Kansas Settles on Route for High-Voltage Power Line
The Kansas Corporation Commission on Tuesday approved the 122-mile “V” route in southwest Kansas that will stretch from near Spearville to east of Medicine Lodge. The decision was the last regulatory hurdle and clears the way for buying land along the route. Continue reading
Midwest Power Transmission Project Targets Kansas Wind
By Jeffrey Tomich for The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (from The Boston Herald) A Houston company is in the early stages of planning one of the largest energy infrastructure projects the Midwest has seen in years — a $1.7 billion high-voltage transmission … Continue reading
Saving Power: The Architecture of Delivery
In looking for savings in our electrical power systems, little attention has been paid to the architecture of power delivery. The hub-and-spoke relationship we have with our electricity provider has been in place since the beginning of electrical service and some updating is in order. Continue reading
How I Pissed Off a Room Full of Environmentalists
In 2007, the National Academy of Sciences released a report indicating the United States probably only has enough coal to meet our needs for about 100 years. So why, when we know that coal’s reign cannot possibly last beyond this century, would we spend billions of dollars to make it “cleaner”? Continue reading
For Clean Power and Not-So, New Midwest Lines
A major Midwest utility, Ameren, said Monday that it had created a new subsidiary to build transmission lines in Missouri and Illinois that will bring more wind power onto the grid – not to mention coal power, from clean to conventional. Continue reading
Public Resource Planning Process for Colorado Utility Impacts Kansas
GPACE will be presenting on Wednesday, May 19th at the Tri-State Generation and Transmission public resource planning meeting at Tri-State headquarters in Westminster, Colorado. Continue reading
Oklahoma Transmission Line Opens Wind Energy Potential
Energy company OG&E has energized a new $200 million transmission line it says will open up a “vital parthway” for wind power generators in northwestern Oklahoma. Continue reading
What Are We Fighting For? (Part 6)
Speaking of renewable energy, don’t we need the coal plant to get transmission lines so that we can export our wind energy? No, absolutely not. The bulk of the transmission that would come as part of the coal plant project would be to move electricity from the plant to its primary owners in Colorado – not to improve or enhance the overall transmission grid in Kansas. Continue reading
What Are We Fighting For? (Part 5)
The coal plant will provide needed jobs and economic development to Kansas in the midst of the worst recession in recent memory. How can we say no to that? Because it won’t – not anytime soon. It is absolutely important to create jobs and investment in this recession. But given all the regulatory, legal, and financial issues with the proposed project, construction won’t begin for at least a couple of years. So, the construction jobs won’t exist until then. How does that help Kansans now? Continue reading
