March 23, 2007: Wind Power Line To Connect North And South Dakota

The North Dakota Public Service Commission approved a transmission line across the North Dakota-South Dakota border.

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March 23, 2007

Wind Power Line To Connect North And South Dakota

The North Dakota Public Service Commission has approved a transmission line for a new wind farm in the Dakotas. Tatanka Wind Power is planning the project across the North Dakota-South Dakota border. State regulators say the company wants to build the seven million dollar, ten-mile power line to connect the wind turbines to North Dakota's electrical grid.

The PSC says it received comments wondering if the transmission line might generate noise that would disturb two cemeteries and a house, but there were no formal complaints.

Regulators say in their ruling that there are no permanently occupied houses in the vicinity of the proposed transmission line, and that the noise it will generate "will not have any significant adverse human or environmental impact."

Tatanka is planning to build about 120 wind turbines in North Dakota's Dickey County and South Dakota's McPherson County.