Why Clean Line developers want changes to Iowa’s approval process

Midwest Energy News: As work on a wind-energy transmission line moves forward in other states, developers say the regulatory process in Iowa is holding back the project.

The hotly debated Rock Island Clean Line, designed to ferry new wind energy from northwest Iowa to the Chicago area and points east, is a fundamentally different type of transmission project. As such, the developer says, it requires a fundamentally different sort of regulatory process.

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