Dedicated energy and utility law attorney Douglas Healy is a member of Healy Law Offices, LLC. Through the boutique law firm, attorney Douglas Healy serves as general counsel for the Missouri Joint Municipal Electric Utility Commission (MJMEUC), and he and his colleagues have represented such entities at Invenergy in legal matters involving the Grain Belt Express transmission line project. A project owned by Invenergy, the Grain Belt Express Clean Line Project is planned to deliver wind-generated electric power from Kansas to consumers and utilities in Missouri and two other states. Sent through 780 miles of transmission line, the project would run through properties in a group of northern Missouri counties, including Clinton, Carroll, Buchanan, and Randolph. To assist with the construction of the project, the Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC) granted it a certificate of convenience and necessity (CCN). This decision was called into question by a coalition of the Missouri Farm Bureau, the Missouri Landowners Alliance, and others. These groups claimed that the PSC was mistaken in approving the CCN for the Grain Belt Express project. According to their statement, the project is not a public utility and is not in the public interest. In December 2019, however, the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District ruled that the coalition had failed to prove its claim that the PSC’s conclusion was unlawful or unreasonable, thus allowing the project to move forward.

1. Missouri Court of Appeals Rules in Favor of Grain Belt Express Project
Douglas Healy

2. Introduction
Dedicated energy and utility law attorney Douglas Healy is a member of Healy Law Offices, LLC. Through the
boutique law firm, attorney Douglas Healy serves as general counsel for the Missouri Joint Municipal Electric
Utility Commission (MJMEUC), and he and his colleagues have represented such entities at Invenergy in legal
matters involving the Grain Belt Express transmission line project.

3. A project owned by Invenergy, the Grain Belt Express Clean Line Project is planned to deliver wind-generated
electric power from Kansas to consumers and utilities in Missouri and two other states. Sent through 780 miles
of transmission line, the project would run through properties in a group of northern Missouri counties,
including Clinton, Carroll, Buchanan, and Randolph. To assist with the construction of the project, the Missouri
Public Service Commission (PSC) granted it a certificate of convenience and necessity (CCN).

4. This decision was called into question by a coalition of the Missouri Farm Bureau, the Missouri Landowners
Alliance, and others. These groups claimed that the PSC was mistaken in approving the CCN for the Grain
Belt Express project. According to their statement, the project is not a public utility and is not in the public
interest. In December 2019, however, the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District ruled that the coalition
had failed to prove its claim that the PSC’s conclusion was unlawful or unreasonable, thus allowing the
project to move forward.