(((It's a drag to have giant transmission towers striding over your back yard, so maybe the authorities can make up for that offense by REMOVING the evil metal kudzu of lines that comes out of the HUGE WORLD-WRECKING TEXAN COAL PLANTS.)))
Link: Planet Ark : Texas Grid Owners Join Forces to Build Wind Lines .
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The filing comes one week after the Texas Public Utility Commission approved a plan calling for construction of 2,400 miles (3,862 km) of high-voltage power lines at a cost exceeding US$5 billion. New lines are needed to move electricity from the state's windiest areas in the west to power-hungry cities.
Those new lines, dubbed by Oncor as a "renewable energy superhighway," will accommodate about 18,500 megawatts of wind generation by 2012. Texas currently leads the nation in wind capacity at about 5,500 MW.
"Texas is already a leader in wind energy and this is the next step in maintaining that leadership position," said Charles Jenkins, Oncor senior vice president...
