Illinois added more wind turbines than any other state in the nation last year and Governor Quinn says that’s just the beginning.  He announced an agreement between Rock Island Clean Line LLC and Flora, Illinois-based Southwire Company that will support wind turbine and transmission manufacturing. 

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The project will create 14-hundred-50 construction jobs over a three-year period.  It will also allow seven-billion dollars worth of investments in new wind energy projects to move forward.  Those projects have been stalled due to the lack of transmission.  Nearly one and a half million homes across the Midwest will have greater access to low-cost, clean energy thanks to the Clean Line project.