When the Biden administration’s Department of Energy announced this week the cancellation of controversial transmission corridors in Oklahoma and Kansas, it also removed the proposed Grain Belt Express from the federal program offering assistance for power infrastructure projects.
The Grain Belt Express, another Invenergy project, is aimed at connecting four states across 800 miles and carrying wind powered electricity from southwest Kansas to Indiana. But it won’t be a part of the National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors” program, which this week removed Oklahoma’s Delta-Plains corridor from the list. The Delta-Plains project called for a transmission line from the Panhandle to Arkansas.
Removal of the Grain Belt had Kansas Senators and Representatives celebrating. But, the Grain Belt was not eliminated and instead will be moving forward.
The Missouri Independent quoted U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican,as stating the program “represented a dangerous overreach of federal authority,” and on Monday took credit for the Department of Energy’s removal of the Grain Belt route.
“We are glad to report that we won this battle, and Kansans voices were heard at the highest levels,” he said.
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