Since that article, Clean Line Energy (remember them?) has sold off a couple pieces and seems to be otherwise winding down. Hopefully someone will write that history.
It's also been written on this blog.
Anyone who needs to "remember" Clean Line Energy Partners now probably never needed or wanted them in the first place. What happens if a company "winds up" and nobody misses them? Was it all just a colossal waste of $200M?
Yes. Big Transmission is still a colossal waste of time and money. Big Transmission is still dead.
Steve Huntoon revisits some of his earlier prognostications in this article in RTO Insider. Huntoon debunks NREL's pseudo-study promoting the building of a "national grid" (a utility fantasy born in the early 2000's), concluding that such a concoction would cost ratepayers more than $50B. Is that in today's dollars? Including return, O&M, and taxes? Or is that one of those stunningly misleading "total cost of building the line" lowball figures that has no correlation to how much money ratepayers actually pay?
At any rate, Big Transmission's song remains the same. Big Transmission is still dead.