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EPA's carbon rule could spur $2.5B in power line investment
2015-03-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: As coal-fired power plants go offline under U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan, building new power lines to bring renewable energy to customers could spur $1.5 billion to $2.5 billion in investment over the next five years, according to an analysis by the consulting group ICF International. The firm said the figure is a conservative estimate, based on calculating what new transmission might be necessary in the system of the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) and then extrapolating those levels...
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