I&M Lulu-Sorenson 765kV Line, How to Know If Your Northeast Indiana Facility Is in the Corridor

This story is on a tighter clock than either of the ones above. Indiana Michigan Power is advancing a roughly 75-mile 765-kilovolt transmission line (the Lulu-Sorenson project) running from Huntington County to the Indiana-Michigan state line, passing through DeKalb, Whitley, and Steuben counties. Public comment closes October 9. No final route has been selected yet.

This is the northernmost segment of a three-project I&M buildout adding over 150 miles of 765kV infrastructure in eastern Indiana simultaneously. The adjacent Greentown-Sorenson comment window closes even sooner, September 25. I&M is holding open houses at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne on September 23 and the Steuben Event Center in Angola on September 24, both from 5 to 7 p.m.

The transmission structures are approximately 175 feet tall. The right-of-way corridor is 180 to 200 feet wide. Once a route is filed with Indiana regulators after the comment window closes, the burden shifts to you, you are now intervening against a proposed route rather than shaping the options set. It is still possible to influence, but it is slower, more expensive, and typically requires formal intervention at the IURC. Michigan's parallel ITC Holdings siting battle, where landowners reported their input was ignored entirely, is the template for what happens when operators and property owners do not engage before the filing.

If you have facilities, land holdings, or planned expansion sites in DeKalb, Whitley, Steuben, or Huntington counties, find out now whether you are inside that corridor. October 9 is the last point where you are shaping options rather than contesting a filed route.