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Hughes Transmission Project

On June 1, 2005, Basin Electric announced plans to construct a new 230-kilovolt (kV) transmission line in Northeast Wyoming. The proposed Hughes Transmission Project will run approximately 136 miles and will connect the Hughes Substation, north of Rozet, to the Carr Draw Substation, west of Gillette, and a new Tongue River Substation, north of Sheridan, WY, to the existing Sheridan Substation. The project requires additions to the Carr Draw and Hughes substations. This is the first electrical transmission project the Wyoming Infrastructure Authority (WIA) has helped finance.

Project facts

Purpose:	This project will strengthen the existing transmission system in the northeast part of Wyoming, resulting in increased reliability.
Line capacity:	230-kV
Line length:	Approximately 136 miles
General location:	Northeast Wyoming
Route selection:	Done
Permitting process:	Complete
Transmission project coordinator: Substation project coordinator:	Gary Christenson Pius Fischer
Line construction start: Substation addition start: Tongue River Substation start:	April 2008 December 2007 Site grading began November 2007
Map:	Proposed route (PDF)
Expected completion:	2009

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