Grasslands Renewable Energy is trying to build the Wind Spirit Project in eastern Montana that would collect 3000 MW of renewable energy. A first step, was getting the FERC to approve their funding methodology which would have certain subsidiaries of Grassland's parent company, a Spanish industrial conglomerate, owning wind projects along the collector system. The project is certainly innovate, but the FERC issued an Order recently denying their proposal would "improperly grant an undue preference to certain transmission customers, and as such is inconsistent with section 205 of the Federal Power Act (FPA) and the Commission's open access principle".
There is a temptation to draw parallels to other Transmission projects in the state, but I don't know what the lesson is, other than developing transmission is difficult and the FERC is not just rubber stamping stuff.
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