Dive Summary:

• Clean Line Energy Partners and Kiewit Corporation are holding meetings with business leaders to discuss their project to power 1.4 million homes with a new wind energy transmission line to be completed in 2017. 
• The project, dubbed as the Rock Island Clean Line, will use Iowa as a wind energy source to provide power to multiple states in the region. 
• Advocates of the line see it is as a boost to Iowa's economy, which would benefit from the thousands of jobs created by project. 

From the article: 

Representatives with Clean Line Energy Partners and Kiewit Corporation met with Cedar Rapids business leaders to discuss a project they want to build by 2017. ...