Only days after announcing it will acquire the 2GW Wind Catcher project under development in Oklahoma’s Panhandle, American Electric Power (AEP) has awarded a turnkey contract to Quanta Services to engineer and build a $1.6bn transmission line that will transport 8.7 million MWh of electricity annually to its customers in four states.

AEP did not release terms of the deal, but Houston-based Quanta anticipates that the contract value will be the largest project award in the history of the $7.65bn