Part of the huge Grain Belt Express plan to transmit electrical power from southwest Kansas across Missouri and Illinois into Indiana might have recently won approval from Kansas regulators, but it still is opposed by many landowners in Kansas.
The pushback is growing, reported the Topeka Capital Journal. The Grain Belt Express is considered part of the National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor, which is a geographic area the U.S. Department of Energy identifies as having transmission limitations that lead to energy congestions and the loss of potentially productive energy.
The paper recently reported landowners and three members of Congress in the state are opposed.
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