Dive Summary:
- The Zephyr Power Transmission Project, a series of transmission lines planned to send Wyoming’s wind power to the Southwest, will gain a high voltage transmission line that will send 3,000 megawatts of power to Nevada and across 150 miles of southeastern Wyoming, Duke-American Transmission Co. announced this week.
- The line will start from a converter station south of Chugwater, go along Interstate 80 west, and then cross northwestern Colorado and Utah before ending in southern Nevada.
- About 2,000 megawatts of the wind power will be generated directly at a Pathfinder Renewable Energy wind farm near Chugwater, and the company plans to begin construction in 2017 and in 2020.
From the article:
"DATC bought the Zephyr project from TransCanada in 2011 and has since studied a bevy of routes for the line. The announced route was chosen as the preference from a list of five or six options, most of which followed the interstate for a significant Wyoming distance. At least one followed the highway all the way to Utah. TransCanada had preferred a line that traveled west to Idaho Falls before going straight south to Las Vegas. DATC had not declared a preference until Wednesday."