Proposal calls for big power transmission line across Iowa
Clean Line meetings Clean Line has held informational meetings already this week in LaPorte City and Reinbeck.
Other meetings this week will include:
Today at 11 a.m. at 509 Washington St. in Gladbrook and at 5 p.m. at 610 North Johnson St. in Parksburg.
Thursday meetings will be held at 11 a.m. at Pine Lake Country Club in Eldora and 5 p.m. at Jewell Golf & Country Club in Jewell.
Friday meetings will be held at 7 a.m. at the Franklin County Fairgrounds in Hampton and at 11:30 a.m. at the Heartland Museum in Clarion.
Clean Line Energy Partners has entered its bid to be part of what promoters hope to be the wind energy equivalent of the interstate oil and gas pipelines that supported the fossil fuel age in the last century.
The Houston-based company proposes a 500-kilovolt transmission line across northern Iowa into central Illinois. Clean Line joins two big utility hitters, MidAmerican Energy and ITC Holdings, which owns and operates the transmission system that serves Alliant Energy, in the interstate transmission derby.
Clean Line's proposed Rock Island (named for the late railroad) transmission line is being discussed at open houses this week along its proposed northern Iowa corridor.
The company hopes to generate enough goodwill so that it doesn't have to use any eminent domain power, for which it will ask the Iowa Utilities Board, for siting of transmission towers.
The exact route of the transmission line hasn't been set, but the study corridor includes O'Brien, Cherokee, Pocahontas, Palo Alto, Humboldt, Hancock, Wright, Hamilton, Franklin, Hardin, Butler, Grundy, Tama, Black Hawk, Benton, Buchanan, Linn, Delaware, Jones, Cedar and Scott counties.
Farmers historically have resisted transmission lines on their properties, although Clean Line's director of development, Hans Detwiler, hopes they will accept the smaller, one-pole tower that takes up less room than the four-footed lattice structures used traditionally for transmission.
But if the current record high prices for Iowa farmland persist into 2013-14, when the company would be seeking leases from farmers, "we'll have to pay top dollar," acknowledged Detwiler.
The Rock Island Clean Line is different from the MidAmerican and ITC proposals.
The first difference is ownership.
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