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Scoping Comment Period Closed - Public comments will be addressed in the Scoping Report published by the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) in early 2010.

Macro-Corridor Study and Alternative Evaluation Study are available on the Resources page.

Center to Grand Forks Transmission Line

Creating renewable energy is an important part of our country’s future. North Dakota has abundant energy resources and we’re already an energy-exporting state, but we have the potential to do more, especially when it comes to wind resources. North Dakota ranks first in the country for wind energy potential. As wind generation continues to expand in North Dakota, increased demands are placed on the current transmission network. The proposed re-assignment of an existing transmission line drives the need for additional transmission facilities.

Minnkota Power Cooperative Inc. (Minnkota) is a generation and transmission cooperative that serves 11 distribution cooperatives within eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota and is headquartered in Grand Forks, N.D. Minnkota also serves as operating agent for the Northern Municipal Power Agency, an association of 12 municipal utilities in the same service region.

Minnkota has proposed the construction of approximately 260 miles of 345 kilovolt (kV) transmission line from Center to Grand Forks, N.D. This project is referred to as Center to Grand Forks or CGF. It is anticipated to be completed by early 2013 to enable the transmission of energy from a planned wind power development to be carried on an existing transmission line. Reallocation of energy presently transmitted on the existing line to this new line also will allow more energy from potential future wind power developments to be carried.