New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, a former US Energy Secretary, is to announce the project, proposed by private developers Tres Amigas LLC at a news conference Tuesday morning.
There are three distinct and mostly separate grids covering the US, as well as parts of Canada and Mexico: The Western Interconnection, which includes states from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean; The Eastern Interconnection, including the Great Plains and all points east; and the Texas Interconnect, confined to most, but not all, of Texas.
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