Utilities Take Power Line Land Exchange Halt to Appeals Court

Two Midwest electric utilities asked the Seventh Circuit to review a lower court’s order halting a federal land exchange needed to complete a major transmission line that would connect dozens of renewable energy projects to the grid.

Two of the transmission project’s co-owner utilities—ITC Midwest and Dairyland Power Cooperative—also filed a motion to stay on April 1 with the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin asking for the land exchange to be completed. They requested an expedited ruling by April 4, or else they will seek an ...