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Grain Belt Express promises stronger electric grid if Missouri lawmakers don t kill it Kevin Hardy and Jeanne Kuang, The Kansas City Star © Mark Reinstein/ZUMA Wire/TNS Wind turbines at the Spearville Wind Farm, on September 23, 2014 in Spearville, Kansas.
Developers of the Grain Belt Express say the massive transmission line remains on track to open up by 2025, connecting wind power in western Kansas with voracious demand in the East.
The 800-mile project promises to add more reliability to the electric grid all the more enticing since rolling blackouts in February left millions of Americans without power. While the $2 billion overhead transmission line aims at exporting wind energy from Kansas, it will also be capable of moving electricity both directions, which could have helped mitigate the electricity crisis that hit the United States earlier this year.
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