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Kansas state Rep. Carl Holmes, R-Liberal, prefers the kind of problems he's got now over the kind that dogged Kansas officials before 2004. Just a few years ago, the state had a problem finding anybody willing to build the transmission infrastructure to support the development of wind power. Now there are companies fighting for the right to build electricity transmission in Kansas.
"I'm old enough that I want the transmission done - I'm tired of waiting," Holmes told members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives' Energy and Technology Committee on Thursday. "KETA was our response to the fact that we didn't feel the transmission was being built. Two years later, we've got holes in the ground," where construction is about to begin, Holmes said.See the full content of this document
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Kansas Mulls Wind Power Transmission Proposals
Holmes is chairman of an organization the Kansas Legislature created in 2005: the Kansas Electricity Transmission Authority, or KETA. The authority's seven members - some appointed by the governor and some e...
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