U.S. Senator Harry Reid, D-Nev., along with U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and other dignitaries, attended the ground breaking ceremony for a 235-mile power line that will help build a renewable energy infrastructure for the silver state. The project has been dubbed One Nevada Line, or ON Line, and is expected to create some 400 jobs at the peak of its construction.

“This line is a smart energy solution that will serve as an important link between Nevada’s northern and southern power grids to increase their capacity and reliability,” said Mr. Salazar in a news release. “Traveling through several areas under consideration for wind, solar and geothermal power generation projects, this line will provide the critical transmission infrastructure to bring that potential to western communities.”