GUYMON, Okla. (AP) - City officials in Guymon are working to attract wind power companies to the Oklahoma Panhandle city.
A one million dollar grant from the Oklahoma Department of Commerce is being used for the road improvements to the city-owned industrial park and the city is in talks with Union Pacific to build a rail spur to the park.
Guymon economic development director Vicki Ayres-McCune told The Journal Record that wind energy will help the city diversify its economy. She said a wind power transmission line that Houston-based Clean Line Energy Partners wants to build through the Panhandle will spur more wind power activity in the region.
The transmission line would link wind farms in the region to the Tennessee Valley Authority in the southeastern United States.
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Information from: The Journal Record, http://www.journalrecord.com
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