The line would run from Blue Creek substation on the Indiana/Ohio border west through Indiana to Kewanee, Illinois, and then north to Byron, Illinois. There is also a segment in Illinois from Kewanee to Collins.

The project will expand the Midwest backbone transmission system to:

• improve the reliability of the region’s transmission grid
• more efficiently link the region’s developing new generation and changing generation mix
• enable the integration of renewable generation required by state and/or federal law.

RITE Line is the first commercial transmission proposal supported by the recently completed SMARTransmission study. SMART study, lead by ETA and co-sponsored by a group of Midwest utilities, including AEP, MidAmerican Energy Company and Exelon, developed a conceptual 20-year transmission plan for the Midwest.

RITE Line must receive authorization to build the project from PJM as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved planning authority as well as state utility commissions in Illinois and Indiana.