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Wyoming Wind power proposed to supply 1.3 million people in the Los Angeles area

Four companies proposed an $8 billion project Tuesday that within a decade could send wind energy generated on the plains of Wyoming to power-thirsty households in Southern California.

The sprawling project — if approved and financed — would create one of the country’s largest wind farms 40 miles north of Cheyenne, a huge energy storage site inside caverns in a Utah salt formation and a 525-mile electric transmission line connecting them.

"This project would be the 21st century’s Hoover Dam," said Jeff Meyer of Pathfinder Renewable Wind Energy, one of the companies behind the plan, referring to the 726-foot high span across the Colorado River that for decades has produced hydroelectric power for Nevada, Arizona, and California.

The power — potentially twice the amount produced by the 1930s-era dam, enough to serve 1.3 million people annually — would be sent on to California through an existing 490-mile line.

By Michael R. Blood and Mead Gruver

Full Story: http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26589941/wind-power-proposed-supply-los-angeles-area

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