Aiming to add three transmission lines, MISO board approves $848 million in projects

摘要

Three transmission projects that will cost a total of $848nmillion were unanimously approved Thursday by the MidwestnIndependent Transmission System Operator’s board of directors.nThe approved projects are the Straits Power Flow ControlnProject, the Eaton Rapids Load Interconnection and the 345-nkV Brookings-to-Hampton project, though the latter facilitynapproval is conditional at the moment. The Brookings-to-nHampton project involves a 210-mile line between BrookingsnCounty, South Dakota, and the Twin Cities area of Minnesota,nand accounts for most of the total cost of the three projects