Clear Line (CL) is an investment capitalist group owned by the Zapp and Zilkha brothers. This Texas-based group plans to establish four major long-distance electrical systems in different parts of the nation. Their path of high voltage transmission wires in our area is named the Rock Island Clear Line (RICL).

RICL has no connection to the former railroad or the town in Illinois. The name symbolizes their “dream.” The Rock Island Line delivered grain to the Eastern markets. RICL will deliver power from their wind turbines, Horizon Wind, Zilkha Renewables and their coal plants in the Western states to a potential market in the East, Washington D.C. That is transmitting power more than 1,200 miles.

Wind Power (WP) and Transmission Lines (TL) are components. Many of RICL managerial staff were recent employees of Horizon Wind.