The Oklahoma-Texas Panhandle region is the country’s hottest wind play at the moment, while developers are eying several large projects in eastern New Mexico.

The completed 345kV double-circuit transmission line runs from a facility in the Texas Panhandle owned by Southwestern Public Service, an electric utility subsidiary of Xcel, across the border to Woodward in northwestern Oklahoma.

The $64m project will carried out in partnership with Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company (OG&E), the state’s largest electric utility.

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