Project Description

The Plains & Eastern Clean Line transmission project will connect 7,000 megawatts of clean energy generation from western Oklahoma, southwest Kansas, and the Texas Panhandle with utilities and customers in Tennessee, Arkansas, and other markets in the Mid-South and Southeast, areas that lack access to low-cost, renewable power.

The Plains & Eastern Clean Line will create thousands of temporary and permanent jobs, reduce pollution, save water relative to traditional electric generation, and, in a future with electric vehicles, will help improve our national security and diversify America’s energy supply.

Plains & Eastern CLEAN LINE QUICK FACTS

• The development and construction of the Plains & Eastern Clean Line is estimated to cost $3.5 billion and will make possible more than $14 billion of new renewable energy investments.
• The Plains & Eastern Clean Line will deliver clean energy to more than 2 million homes.
• Renewable energy generators and utilities that purchase transmission capacity on the line will pay for usage of the Plains and Eastern Clean Line.
• The project will be developed in two 3,500 megawatt phases, with the first phase currently under development.

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