The development of a new wind energy project in Yankton and Turner Counties will also create a need for transmission lines to connect to the electric grid.
Lu Nelsen, a policy associate at the Center for Rural Affairs, says development of alternative energy production facilities is pushing the capacity of existing transmission lines…
Nelsen says power production is now being spread over a wider area…
Nelsen says expanding the electric grid makes wind power more efficient…
Nelsen says estimates point to a need for more than two hundred gigawatts of new electric generation needed in the next ten years.
