The Western Transmission Consortium

Transmission for Tomorrow: Energizing the Western Frontier

Let’s Build a Few Barns!

Bob Rowe, TWTC Trail Boss

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

- Wallace Stegner

Welcome to The Western Transmission Consortium’s website!

There is nothing more western than a barn raising.

The Western Transmission Consortium (TWTC) is a barn raising to help get the West’s next phase of critical infrastructure built. It’s grassroots. It’s bottoms up. It’s a big tent.

A barn raising is voluntary. Folks pitch in to get the work done, then help build the next one, and everyone benefits. There’s a cookout or two to celebrate along the way.

The original barn raisings were…

TWTC’s Mission

The mission of TWTC is to develop interregional or interjurisdictional transmission infrastructure in the West through a collaborative process involving infrastructure owners and investors, while remaining accountable to state and federal regulators.

What is TWTC?

TWTC is a member-owned entity structured to facilitate development of interregional or interjurisdictional transmission infrastructure in the eleven western states. TWTC is currently in its development company (DevCo) phase, which will soon transition into The Western Transmission Consortium (TransCo) as governance, budgetary and initial project curation phases are completed.

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