Wyoming wind power developers to ship power to Colo.

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By The Associated Press

Story Published: Aug 26, 2008 at 2:48 PM MST

Story Updated: Aug 26, 2008 at 2:48 PM MST

BILLINGS - Wyoming officials say a pair of wind developers have committed to buying 585 megawatts of capacity on a transmission line that would connect to Colorado's Front Range.

GreenHunter Wind Company and Duke Energy Ohio plan to build a pair of wind farms near Chugwater, about 40 miles north of Cheyenne. The two companies were the only successful bidders to emerge from a recent auction of the transmission line's capacity.

The power they produce will be shipped to Colorado along the 185-mile Wyoming-Colorado Intertie, which is proposed by the Wyoming Infrastructure Authority and Trans-Elect Development Co. of Bethesda, Maryland. Authority executive director Steve Waddington says the line will cost an estimated $350 million and come online in 2013.

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