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In a recent paper published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, researchers from McGill University demonstrated that wind farms typically utilize only 5% of farmland.

Environmental and labor groups support cost-saving bill

The former Austin City Council member's Connect the Grid Act would mandate that ERCOT create new interconnections with neighboring power grids.

Cold creates record-breaking electricity demand

According to the utility company, residents consumed 11,300 megawatts of electricity in just one hour on Friday night.

Plan in the works to build transmission lines through Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi

The 400-mile project will create 3,000 MW of transfer capacity across the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, the Western Interconnection and the Southwest Power Pool.

Dominion Energy is holding a community meeting in Gainesville Tuesday to discuss its proposal to build a new substation and transmission lines to meet the areas growing power needs that

Allete and Grid United have signed development agreements for the North Plains Connector project, a HVDC transmission line in the US.

ALLETE, Inc. and North Plains Connector LLC, a subsidiary of Grid United LLC, have signed development agreements for the North Plains Connector project, a new, approximately 400-mile high-voltage direct-current (HVDC)