SUGAR LAND--October 19, 2015--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Illinois utility regulators last month approved a $150 million plan by Ameren Transmission Company of Illinois (ATXI) (St. Louis, Missouri), a subsidiary of Ameren Corporation (NYSE:AEE) (St. Louis), to build a 46-mile, 345-kilovolt (kV) transmission line in Northwest Illinois. The so-called Spoon River Project will stretch from Galesburg to Peoria. Construction is scheduled to begin in late 2016, and the line is expected to be operating in 2018.

Within this article: Details on power transmission projects by Ameren Transmission Company of Illinois, including the Mark Twain Transmission Project and the Illinois Rivers Transmission Project.

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