Dive summary:
- Clean Line Energy Partners, a renewable energy transmission company in Houston, Texas, will complete a 200-mile, 345 kV alternating current transmission line that will see $2 billion invested in renewable generation and transmission in New Mexico.
- The Western Spirit Clean Line project will transmit 1.5-gigawatts of renewable power from east-central New Mexico to western U.S.
- Clean Line will partner with the New Mexico Renewable Energy Transmission Authority (RETA) to finish the project strongly supported by New Mexico legislation to facilitate and finance renewable energy development.
From the press release:
"By enabling more wind generation in the energy supply mix, the project will save scarce water resources and result in meaningful reductions in air and water pollutants and carbon dioxide emissions."