Douglas Healy, an attorney with Healy Law Offices, represented the Missouri Joint Municipal Electric Utility Commission. In 2019, he worked on an appellate case focused on Invenergy LLC's Grain Belt Express transmission line project. The appellate court rejected claims by the Missouri Landowners Alliance that the Missouri Public Service Commission erred in approving the project. The court affirmed that the project would significantly benefit the public by bringing renewable energy from Kansas to consumers in Missouri, Indiana, and Illinois.

1. Appellate Decision Boosts
Grain Belt Express
Transmission Line
Douglas Healy Attorney

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3. An established presence in the Springfield,
Missouri legal community, Douglas Healy is an
attorney with Healy Law Offices, LLC. In addition
to representing his primary client, the Missouri
Joint Municipal Electric Utility Commission,
Douglas Healy has leveraged his skills as an
attorney in other matters, such as a 2019
appellate case focused on Invenergy LLC’s Grain
Belt Express transmission line project.

4. In December 2019, the Missouri Court of
Appeals, Eastern District, delivered a 19-page
ruling that rejected claims by the Missouri
Landowners Alliance that the Missouri Public
Service Commission (PSC) had been in error
in green lighting an ambitious project that will
bring renewable wind energy from western
Kansas to consumers across Missouri, Indiana,
and Illinois.

5. They contended that valuable agricultural
land would be destroyed in a project that
primarily serves the interests of private
investors.. Facing the loss of 10 acres of
land for transmission towers across 200
miles of Missouri line, the appellants argued
that the PSC has misinterpreted Missouri
utility laws and evidence. A key argument
was that Grain Belt Express is not public-
utility driven, but a private investment-
funded project.

6. The appellate ruling backed the PSC in
reinforcing the idea that the project will
benefit the public significantly. To date,
more than 40 municipal utilities statewide
have entered into cost-saving power
purchase agreements that will take effect
when the Grain Belt Express transmission
line project is completed.