(Sioux Falls, S.D.)– A Michigan company is working on plans for a network of transmission lines across the midwest that could carry electricity from wind turbines to millions of homes.
The project by ITC Holdings Corporation would cost in the neighborhood of 12 billion dollars and include an electric grid in the dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinoin and Indiana.
It would have the capacity to carry electricity to 3.6 million homes to Chicago and points east.
One of the lines in the grid would connect a substation near Lakefield, Minnesota with one near Sac City. The line would primarily follow Highway 71 through northwest Iowa.
Officials say it would take 10 or years to build the network of transmission lines.
