Kansas Coop Brings Attention to Private Transmission Considerations
Wheatland Electric Cooperative of Kansas is alerting others to potential concerns regarding the construction of private transmission lines to meet increased oil and gas exploration in the Mississippi Lime Play, which is an underground formation across southern and western Kansas and northern Oklahoma. If energy companies begin building their own electric transmission infrastructure, Wheatland warns that public utilities may have trouble building their own transmission lines across or near the private rights of way acquired by these companies. Problems may arise in reliability. If multiple companies build infrastructure in an area that is hit by bad weather, repairs to public utility lines in that area may be adversely affected. Read more here.
