Dive Summary:

• A newly-proposed line would connect substations run by Kansas City Power & Light and the Omaha Public Power District.
• The Southwest Power Pool, a federally mandated regulatory commission, found the project to be a priority for the region.
• The ultimate goals of the project are to bring more capacity and reliability to the region’s energy grid.

From the article:

Preliminary planning and public discussion has begun on a proposal to build a 345-kilovolt transmission line in northwest Missouri and southeast Nebraska, although construction would not even begin until 2015, according to two utility companies.

Kansas City Power & Light and the Omaha Public Power District held one of eight planned open houses Monday in Rock Port, Mo., to discuss the line, which would run from near Sibley, northwest to Nebraska City, Neb. A similar meeting was held in Auburn, Neb. ...