This just in... a citizen detective in Missouri has uncovered Invenergy's plans to build "the nation’s largest installation of wind turbines" in Kansas.
The company also has planned a Kansas wind farm that would be the nation’s largest installation of wind turbines. The project would see 1,000 wind turbines installed across 100,000 acres of Kansas farmland.
Let's see... the nation's largest wind farm seems to be located in the same state where the nation's largest transmission line begins.
Is Grain Belt Express really a "public use" transmission line, or will it be repurposed to serve as Invenergy's private use generation tie line to transmit energy from Invenergy's largest wind turbine installation to an interconnection point with the public grid in Missouri? That would be what's known as a "generation tie line", or in industry parlance "ICIF" (Interconnection customer's interconnection facilities). An ICIF doesn't need to offer its transmission capacity to other companies. It can keep it all for its own use. Of course, such a facility is not a "public use" so it cannot, under law, use eminent domain to acquire property.
Is there a reason GBE has not sold any more capacity other than the "up to 200 MW" to Missouri municipalities that greased its first permit from the PSC? Is GBE saving its capacity for Invenergy's largest wind installation? Are there more changes coming to GBE after it gets approval and acquires all the land it needs to build GBE?
Is Grain Belt Express really a "public use" transmission line, or will it be repurposed to serve as Invenergy's private use generation tie line to transmit energy from Invenergy's largest wind turbine installation to an interconnection point with the public grid in Missouri? That would be what's known as a "generation tie line", or in industry parlance "ICIF" (Interconnection customer's interconnection facilities). An ICIF doesn't need to offer its transmission capacity to other companies. It can keep it all for its own use. Of course, such a facility is not a "public use" so it cannot, under law, use eminent domain to acquire property.
Is there a reason GBE has not sold any more capacity other than the "up to 200 MW" to Missouri municipalities that greased its first permit from the PSC? Is GBE saving its capacity for Invenergy's largest wind installation? Are there more changes coming to GBE after it gets approval and acquires all the land it needs to build GBE?
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