Duke-American Transmission Co.

Wind Power For Los Angeles Would Travel Across Colorado

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.