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"Game-Changing" Transmission Link Would Deliver Texas Wind Power to the Southeast
Forbes, January 18, 2012 –Texas has installed more wind energy than any other state, but a lack of transmission and its isolated grid are holding up new projects. Southern Cross, a transmission link proposed by San Francisco-based Pattern Energy, would connect up to 3,000 megawatts (MW) of new Texas wind farms and provide an outlet for the state's grid by delivering the electricity to the Southeast.

How bad is the transmission bottleneck in Texas? On January 16, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the Texas grid operator, announced that utilities and independent transmission companies in its service territory plan to spend $8.7 billion over the next five years to build or improve 6,693 miles of transmission lines.

Pattern plans to build a 400-mile, 500-kilovolt (kV) high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission line from Garland, in east Texas, across northern Louisiana, and into northeastern Mississippi. If approved, construction on Southern Cross should begin in 2014, with the link coming online in 2016. Read More »

Pattern Energy Continues to Pick Up Momentum In 2012
Energy Boom, January 13, 2012 – Pattern Energy Group has secured approval from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for a 20-year power purchase agreement with with San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) for wind energy to be produced at a new wind farm in Imperial Valley, California.

The Ocotillo Wind Energy Facility, located near the town of Ocotillo, will use a mixture of Siemens 2.0 and 2.3 turbines that will combine to generate up to 315 MW of renewable energy. Energy generated from the wind farm will be delivered to the power grid via the Sunrise Powerlink transmission line which was recently permitted right-of-way use by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and is currently under construction. Read more »