1. Grain Belt Express Overview & HB1062

2. GBX Project Description
780-mile overhead, DC transmission line delivering wind energy from western Kansas to utilities and customers in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and neighboring states;
4,000 megawatts of low-cost, renewable power and enough clean energy for 1.6 million homes per year;
Create thousands of construction jobs and hundreds of permanent jobs to maintain and operate the wind farms and transmission line;
Estimated $2.3 billion development and construction investment that will enable approximately $7 billion of new, renewable energy projects to be built;
Providing a long-term source of income for rural communities that host the line.
Grain Belt Express is a participant-funded, merchant model project. Its construction will be paid for by the renewable energy generators and load serving entities that purchase transmission capacity on the line.

3. Proposed Route

4. Proposed Route

5. Corporate Support General Mills Target General Motors Proctor & Gamble
Hubbell Power Systems
Kellogg’s
Owens Corning
PAR Electrical Contractors
Nestle
ABB
Unilever
Wal-Mart

6. Missouri Benefits Help Power 39 Missouri Communities;
Save an estimated $12.8M annually on electric costs;
$500M investment in Missouri
Create 1,500 jobs
No State Subsidies
$7.2M Local Property Tax Revenues
350,000 Missourians benefit
Estimated $32M in Compensation to Local Land Owners

7. Rolla Benefits Estimated $1.24M annual electricity savings;
$24.8M Savings Over 20 Year Term
Savings can by used for Rate Relief, Rate Stabilization, Infrastructure Investment, or any Combination

8. GBX Opposition 570 Landowners Affected by Route
Primary Opposition - Private Landowners within, or adjacent to the Proposed Route
Private Company Taking Private Property for Private Gain
Make Land Unusable
Take Property Without Just and Fair Compensation
Unable to Plant Crops Under the T-Line
Unable to Move Farming Equipment Under T-Line
Access to Eminent Domain, typically reserved for Public Benefit Projects (Land Rights Issue)
The project has received a CCN just like any other Utility in the State
Just like Ameren, KCP&L, Gas Pipeline, tel-comm, etc…
License to operate in Missouri just like all the rest of the public utilities
Public Utilities, regulated by Missouri Public Service Commission, are typically Private Investor Owned Utilities
In the beginning of the project, GBX was not dropping power off in Missouri
This Changed to provide a tangible Public Benefit to Missouri and the PSC recognized the benefit in their order.
Proponents of HB1062 Haven’t Fully Accepted that Change
Frankly, they just don’t want it.

9. PSC Consideration
Five Years of Hearings, Including MO Supreme Court Ruling
Local and Jefferson City Hearings
Comprehensive 54 Page Report and Order
Enter Case #: EA , Item #758
Project Determined to be in the Public Interest

10. PSC Consideration
“Negative Impacts of the Project on the Land and Landowners Mitigated by
(a) A Landowner Protocol to Protect Landowners;
(b) Superior Compensation Payments;
(c) A Binding Arbitration Option for Easement Negotiations;
(d) A Decommissioning Fund; and
(e) An Agricultural Impact Protocol to Avoid or Minimize Negative Agricultural Impacts”
“…No More than Nine Acres of Land in Missouri will be taken out of Agricultural Production…”

11. PSC Consideration
P. 47 of PSC Report and Order On Remand “There can be no debate that our energy future will require more diversity in energy resources, particularly renewable resources. We are witnessing a worldwide, long-term and comprehensive movement towards renewable energy in general and wind energy specifically. Wind energy provides great promise as a source for affordable, reliable, safe, and environmentally-friendly energy. The Grain Belt Project will facilitate this movement in Missouri, will thereby benefit Missouri citizens, and is, therefore, in the public interest.”

12. HB1062 Introduced by Rep. Hansen, District 40
(1) Private entities shall not have the power of eminent domain under the provisions of this section for the purposes of constructing above-ground merchant lines.
(2) For the purpose of this subsection, the following terms mean:
(a) "Merchant line", a high-voltage direct current electric transmission line which does not provide for the erection of electric substations at intervals of less than fifty miles, which substations are necessary to accommodate both the purchase and sale to persons located in this state of electricity generated or transmitted by the private entity; and
(b) "Private entity", a utility company that does not provide service to end-use customers or provide retail service in Missouri, regardless of whether it has received a certificate of convenience and necessity from the public service commission under section

13. HB1062 Progress Passed out of the House April 18, 2019 (115-35)
Senate Commerce Committee Hearing, May 1st, Heavily Attended
Passed out of Senate Commerce Committee May 6, 2019 (6-5)
Not Currently Scheduled For Next Action