Ameren Missouri is making plans to build a nearly 30-mile-long transmission line through Callaway and Montgomery Counties.

If approved by state utility regulators, the new transmission line would connect existing electrical substations in Callaway and Montgomery Counties to the multi-state Grain Belt Express, a power line carrying energy from Kansas to Indiana.

Ameren submitted a request to build, own and operate the proposed line to the Missouri Public Service Commission in November.

Samuel Gardner is the project manager with Ameren Transmission and said the new powerline is necessary due to increasing energy production across the Midwest.

The Grain Belt Express, to which the proposed Mid-Missouri powerline would connect, is the “biggest transmission line in U.S. history” and is expec

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