Clean Technica: Clean Line Energy’s Plains & Eastern Line $2.5 billion transmission project — which will deliver electricity generated by wind energy projects in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandle area throughout the southeastern US — was recently approved by the US Department of Energy, according to reports.
This means that the Department of Energy will be participating in the development of the project by securing rights of way, among other things. This marks the first time that the Department of Energy (DOE) has utilized the congressional authority bestowed as part of Section 1222 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 with the intent of promoting transmission development.
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