The Anschutz Corporation is targeting 2020 to begin construction of its $3bn, 725-mile (1,167km) TransWest Express transmission line that would deliver 20,000GWh/yr of low-cost wind energy from Wyoming to California and adjacent states.
Denver-based Anschutz would like to have initial phases of the 600kV overhead direct-current (DC) line in service by 2023, spokeswoman Kara Choquette told Recharge.
“That, then, would hopefully provide a pathway for the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre (CCSM) wind energy,” she said, referring to an immense two-stage 3GW nameplate capacity wind farm that Power Company of Wyoming (PCW), another Anschutz subsidiary, has under development on lands it owns in a southern segment of the state.
