Douglas Healy is an attorney at Healy Law Offices who focuses on public utilities and energy law. In 2019, he successfully defended a Missouri Public Service Commission ruling for Invenergy LLC regarding the Grain Belt Express, a transmission line project to bring wind energy from Kansas to the Midwest. The Missouri Landowners Alliance and Missouri Farm Bureau disputed the project's certificate, arguing it would destroy agricultural land primarily to benefit private investors. However, the appellate court sided with the project, which will annually generate up to 4,000 renewable megawatts to power 1.6 million Midwest residents.

1. Douglas Healy

2. Introduction
As an attorney with Healy Law Offices, LLC, in Springfield, Missouri, Douglas Healy focuses on public
utilities and energy law. In 2019, attorney Douglas Healy worked successfully with Invenergy LLC in an
appellate defense of a ruling for the Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC).

3. The case focused on the Grain Belt Express, a multistate transmission line that will bring wind energy
from Kansas to consumers across Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri. They contended that valuable
agricultural land would be destroyed in a project that primarily serves the interests of private investors.

4. The Missouri Landowners Alliance and the Missouri Farm Bureau disputed the certificate of
convenience and necessity (CCN) that was issued in appellate court. They contended that valuable
agricultural land would be destroyed in a project that primarily serves the interests of private
investors.

5. Dismissing this claim, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, sided with a project that will
sustainably generate up to 4,000 renewable megawatts of energy annually and supply the electricity
needs of approximately 1.6 million residents across the Midwest.