Transmission Buildout Grows in Western U.S.

June 27, 2022--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Wyoming energy interests have some good news to report. The Cowboy State, beset with the closure of coal-fired power plants and coal mines, received federal and state authorization to begin construction of Energy Gateway South, a 416-mile, 500-kilovolt transmission project. It is part of a larger, region-wide Energy Gateway transmission expansion being developed by PacifiCorp (Portland, Oregon), a unit of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A) (Omaha, Nebraska).

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), a branch of the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), gave the Gateway South project a notice to proceed May 26. State utility regulators in Wyoming and Utah approved that project earlier this spring. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Power Industry Project Database can click here for a list of detailed Gateway South project reports.