wiredInUSA June 2017

Mississippi route assessment

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An affiliate of Pattern Energy has filed for a siting certificate with the Mississippi Public Service Commission (MPSC) for a preferred route plan for the Southern Cross Transmission Project. The route will pass through the Mississippi River in Issaquena County and continue eastward through Washington, Sharkey, Humphreys, Holmes, Carroll, Montgomery, Choctaw, Oktibbeha, Clay and Monroe counties, terminating at a converter station in Lowndes County. The MPSC will assess the project and issue its order based on the results of the review. With a base load capacity of 2,000MW the Southern Cross project is a ±500kV

HVDC transmission line to connect excess wind energy in Texas to the grid in the southeast.

Construction is expected to start in 2018 with the line operational in 2021.

Under the project, the high voltage and HVDC converter station will be constructed in northwest Louisiana, with around 400 miles of HVDC transmission lines across Louisiana and Mississippi. Pattern Energy CEO Mike Garland said: “The Southern Cross project will be one of the nation’s first overhead HVDC transmission lines constructed in nearly two decades.”

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