Dive Summary:
- Amarillo, Texas-based Xcel Energy has spent $93.3 million completing high-voltage transmission line projects in the northwestern counties of the Texas Panhandle.
- Xcel says the improvements are designed to boost reliability in those communities since they had outgrown the existing transmission infrastructure.
- All told, the company will spend over $2 billion upgrading generation, transmission, and distribution facilities in almost every part of the area.
From the article:
Amarillo, Texas-based Xcel Energy has spent $93.3 million completing high-voltage transmission line projects in an effort to boost reliability and capacity in the northwestern counties of the Texas Panhandle, where local communities and industries had outgrown the existing transmission infrastructure.
"We've seen tremendous economic growth in Dalhart, Dumas, Stratford and neighboring communities where local economies are being lifted by agriculture and energy-related industries," says Riley Hill, president and CEO of Southwestern Public Service Co., an Xcel Energy company. "The upgrades will allow these industries and the communities that sustain them to continue expanding as they take advantage of reliable, plentiful and low-cost power.” ...
