To the editor:

I would seem crazy to suggest that Boeing only sell airplanes to residents of Kansas or that any other manufacturer sell their product only in the state of production, but we repeatedly hear people fretting about Sunflower Electric Power’s plans to sell electricity to Colorado.

What is wrong with manufacturing electricity for sale elsewhere? By building the proposed Sunflower Power Plant additions, Kansas gets more jobs and more tax revenue, not to mention the added stability to our state power grid.

If the concern is environmental, I trust KDHE to do a better job protecting our state’s environment than Colorado. The plant is required by state and federal law to utilize best-available control technology (BACT) for air emissions, and is volunteering to install carbon dioxide control even though not required by law, and will also utilize state-of-the-art mercury control.

In addition, to ensure reliability of electricity delivery to Colorado, two 100 percent redundant transmission lines will be built. Accordingly, during the majority of time that both lines are available for use, the other line will be available for wind energy to be sold and delivered to Colorado. Thus solving one of the biggest impediments to wind power, the cost to construct new transmission lines.

Kansans should embrace this beneficial project.

Stanley Rasmussen,

Lawrence