Transmission Vision
It’s the morning following President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech. Amid the clatter of coffee cups and flatware at a Chicago-area eatery, a voice percolates above the noontime crowd at the Moondance Café. “There’s alternative energy and then—as the president said last night—there’s clean energy,” says Paul McCoy (EE ’72), a key figure in the planned Atlantic Wind Connection (AWC) wind farm project. “In my view as a practitioner in this area for decades, he correctly stated that we need it all—wind, solar, nuclear, and clean fossil fuels.”