AEP and Midamerican Energy Holdings Company form joint venture company to build transmission in Texas. As part of its overall strategy to grow its transmission business, AEP signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in Nov. 2006 with MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. (MidAmerican) to form a joint venture company to build and own new electric transmission assets within the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).

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On the windy, dusty plains of west Texas, Electric Transmission Texas (ETT) is moving the vision of bringing renewable power from the fuel source to load centers within ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) -- the Competitive Renewable Energy Zones or CREZ Project -- from concept to the delivery of conductor.