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A new wind power project in Iowa is expected to create over 5,000 temporary construction jobs, and 500 permanent jobs. Right now, Clean Line Energy is working on a $2 billion transmission project that would move large amounts of renewable energy from Northwest Iowa to places like Chicago, using a 500 mile transmission line. Clean Line Energy says Iowa has had the resource for some time, but now there is going to be a way to process it.
"Obviously Iowans would benefit from production. Just as they do from producing corn and soybeans, and shipping those to other parts of the world. They can ship it to states that can't produce wind energy," said Wayne Galli, executive vice president of Transmission and Technical Services at Clean Line Energy.
Galli says 2,000 wind turbines would be constructed in Northwest Iowa as a result of the transmission line. Galli hopes to have the project completed sometime in 2018.
