Pattern Development’s trailblazing Southern Cross transmission project could stimulate 3GW of new wind capacity build-out within the main ERCOT electrical grid in Texas by enabling other US states to access abundant low-cost energy there, a senior company official tells Recharge.
The proposed 400-mile-long (644km), 500kV direct-current line and related 37- to 40-mile-long 345kV Rusk-Panola transmission project in Texas will allow export of 2GW of power (after line losses) to Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and other southeastern states with poor onshore wind resource.
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