Full Title: Potential Carbon Emission Reductions and Costs of Delivering Wind Energy from the Plains & Eastern Clean Line Transmission Project
Author(s): The Brattle Group
Publisher(s): Clean Line Energy Partners
Publication Date: June 1, 2010
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Description (excerpt):
The Plains & Eastern Clean Line Transmission Project (“Project”) is a high-voltage direct current (“HVDC”) transmission line proposed by Clean Line Energy Partners (“Clean Line”) toenable the importation of high capacity factor wind generation from the southwestern portion of Kansas and the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma (“Panhandle Region”) into the southeastern United States. The Project can be scaled to allow the interconnection of 4,100 MW or 8,400 MW of installed wind capacity. Clean Line asked The Brattle Group (“Brattle”) to perform two evaluations: first, to assess the potential greenhouse gas reduction benefits of high capacity factor wind generation dispatched into the Southeast region of the U.S.; and second, to compare the wind energy cost delivered from the proposed Project to the Southeast with other wind energy options available to the Southeast.