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County updated on transmission line project

By Greg Bebermeyer

03/04/2020

(KNZA)--The Brown County Commission was updated Monday on plans to build a high-voltage transmission line across the county.

Representatives of Chicago-based Invenergy told commissioners that the company finalized the purchase of the Grain Belt Express Line from Houston-based Clean Line Energy Partners in January.

The about 800-mile line will deliver up to 4,000 megawatts of wind-generated power from southwest Kansas across Missouri and Illinois to the Indiana border. The line will go through 14 Kansas counties—including Brown, Doniphan, Marshall and Nemaha.

Project Development Director Krista Mann told commissioners they are in the process of meeting with local stakeholders in all the counties along the route in Kansas and Missouri. They also met with the Doniphan County Commission Monday.

Mann said the company will be talking to landowners about easement agreements and the first landowners should start receiving easement packages in about a month. She said landowners will be offered payments for the easement, number of permanent structures on their property and crop damages.

The towers that will support the transmission line will be between 130 and 160 feet tall and about a quarter-mile apart.

Mann said construction is expected to start in late 2021 or early 2022 and be completed by 2024.

Invenergy is looking at a total investment of $7 to $8 billion dollars.

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