wiredInUSA April 2019

Chicago wind power

The company behind a proposed underground transmission line to carry electricity from Iowa to Chicago’s Direct Connect Development Company network has said that the $2.5 billion project could be operational in 2024 if regulators approve it. The project, known as the SOO Green HVDC link, is said to have three major investors — Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, Jingoli Power and Siemens Financial Services.

in land that runs along existing Canadian Pacific railroad tracks, so reducing disruption to landowners. A similar proposal from a different company for an overhead transmission line, the Rock Island Clean Line between northwest Iowa and Illinois, was withdrawn in 2016 after landowners raised concerns. The proposed line, first announced in 2017, would run from Mason City, Iowa, to Plano, Illinois.

The proposal is to bury the transmission line

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