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Wind energy gets boost as feds OK system to pay for new lines
Federal authorities on Thursday approved a plan that could make it easier to deliver wind energy from Minnesota and the Dakotas to the eastern United States.
The proposal boosts the chances that a $725 million high-voltage power line proposed from Brookings, S.D., to Hampton in Dakota County will be built.
December 17, 2010
by Leslie Brooks Suzukamo
in Pioneer Press
Decision could help Brookings-to-Hampton project
Federal authorities on Thursday approved a plan that could make it easier to deliver wind energy from Minnesota and the Dakotas to the eastern United States.
The proposal boosts the chances that a $725 million high-voltage power line proposed from Brookings, S.D., to Hampton in Dakota County will be built. The line has nearly all the regulatory approval it needs along its more than 200-mile route, but the question of who pays for it has been hanging for years.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, approved a payment system by the organization that runs... [continue via Web link]
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