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07:54 AM CST on Friday, January 30, 2009 By ELIZABETH SOUDER / The Dallas Morning News esouder@dallasnews.com The Public Utility Commission on Thursday assigned seven utilities to build pieces of a $5 billion transmission line project to bring West Texas wind power to North Texas and Houston. ...
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Wall Street Journal: It's tough to be green
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02:21 PM CST on Friday, February 6, 2009
I am a small-farmer and a Jew, an unusual...
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Texas Wind Transmission Projects Announced
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Texas regulators last week identified 13 companies that will build transmission lines to aid wind power production in the state, as reported in Texas newspapers . Texas ...
Texas Announces $5 Billion Plan for Wind Power Transmission Lines
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... When it comes to tapping into west Texas' plentiful wind power resources, throwing up wind farm after wind farm is only part of the equation. The less glamorous, yet equally important side of the operation is figuring out how to get all those gigawatts back to the metropolises that need them. That's why it was big news Friday when the state awarded the contracts necessary to build the nearly 2,400 miles of transmissions lines that will make up Texas' renewable energy pipeline. ...
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