Proposed transmission route discussed at meeting

Those who were in the Jeffrey Center in Rawlins April 10 found several posters with a red line illustrated crossing through Carbon County, as well as 20 other counties.

That red line represents a proposed route for a transmission line, which will direct wind energy from Platte County to southern Nevada. Duke American Transmission Company took over the project in 2011 after the original developer, Trans Canada, pulled out of the project, said Chris Jones, DATC president and Zephyr project director.

“We basically restarted development, starting with the routing and sighting of the line,” he said...