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Houston company proposes new wind power connection for TVA
The Tennesseee Valley Authority favors a Houston company's effort to build an electrical connection between windmills in Oklahoma and Texas and power users in the Tennessee Valley.
The proposed $3.5 billion project would use direct current rather than the alternating current.
November 29, 2010
by The Associated Press
in KnoxvilleBIZ
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - The Tennesseee Valley Authority favors a Houston company's effort to build an electrical connection between windmills in Oklahoma and Texas and power users in the Tennessee Valley.
The proposed $3.5 billion project would use direct current rather than the alternating current of most electric lines and needs to get approval from at least four regulatory agencies.
TVA transmission strategies general manager David Till told the Chattanooga Times Free Press the green power proposal "has great potential."
A spokesman for the company, Clean Line Energy Partners, said permission is being sought from regulators in Oklahoma and Arkansas for transmission lines... [continue via Web link]
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