GUYMON, Okla. (AP) — Officials with Houston-based Clean Line Energy Partners say construction could begin in 2017 on a planned 700-mile transmission line to carry wind-generated electricity across Oklahoma and Arkansas into Tennessee.
The planned line would carry the wind power from as-yet undeveloped wind farms in the Oklahoma Panhandle to Memphis, Tennessee where it would connect to the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Clean Line vice president for development Mario Hurtado told The Journal Record he expects the Plains & Eastern Clean Line to be operating by 2020.
However opposition has surfaced in Arkansas where members of the congressional delegation have objected to the federal government possibly using eminent domain to take land for the project. The federal lawmakers say eminent domain should be decided at the state and local level.