The Cost of Connecting to the Grid

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Lyle and his partner in this project, Apex, submit their request to connect to the grid. And then they wait for SPP to tell Lyle and his team how much it's going to cost. Caroline Herron is a consultant who has been kind of the glue holding this whole project together. She knows that this number could make or break the project.

Lyle Jack wants to build a wind farm on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. But to make the project work, he has to connect that wind farm to the electric grid. Which is easier said than done. On today's show - how the green energy revolution may live, or die, by bureaucrats trying to untangle a mess of wires.

This episode was produced by Willa Rubin. It was edited by Sally Helm, fact-checked by Sierra Juarez, and engineered by Katherine Silva. Jess Jiang is our acting executive producer.

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