Sunflower's fate in hands of one voter who says he is leaning against approval

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The Kansas legislator who may determine the fate of a bill allowing Sunflower Electric Power's 1,400-MW coal project to advance is "leaning against" voting for the measure in an upcoming veto-override attempt, he said late last week. "Almost all of the power from the project would be sent out of the state, and that suggests that we really don't need it," said Kansas State Representative Dale Swenson, Republican-Wichita, of Sunflower's proposal to build two 700-MW coal units at its Holcomb station in western Kansas. Tri-State Generation & Transmission Association of Westminster, Colorado, would own one of the 700-MW units and would buy 100 MW from the other unit. Golden Spread Electric Cooperative, which secures power for distribution coops in Oklahoma and Texas, would also buy power.