Contractors hired to build 800-mile long Grain Belt Express

Grain Belt was previously envisioned as a 4,000 megawatt line that would drop off a small portion of its power in Missouri.

 

 

Construction contracts totaling $1.7 billion were awarded this week to contractors to build the 800-mile electric transmission line called the Grain Belt Express, a project to carry southwest Kansas wind-generated electricity across Missouri, Illinois and to Indiana.

Invenergy, the developer of the massive project awarded the contracts to Quanta Services of Houston and Kiewit Energy Group Inc. of Omaha.

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