Building out the national #grid:
"More long-distance power lines also allows for the broader use of #renewables even when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing in a particular location and helps a renewable-heavy grid withstand the vagaries of weather patterns."
#EnergyTransition
https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2023-01-19/vp-harris-touts-arizona-california-power-transmission-line
"The Biden administration has approved a major high-voltage power line designed to deliver #renewable #energy from the Mountain West to population centers in the #Southwest. "
#Grid #EnergyTransition #Montana
https://www.kunc.org/regional-news/2023-04-16/feds-greenlight-major-transmission-line-that-will-deliver-wyoming-wind-power-to-the-southwest
Groundbreaking for #TransWestExpress #transmission line in #Wyoming
"Some people are saying ‘Yes,’ like Rawlins mayor Terry Weickum.
He said the town has been in a “bust” recently as thousands of jobs were lost from the local #coalmines closing and the #oilfields slowing.
“It is a lucky break for us to get this incredible thing in our mix,” he said. “Some people don't like it. Some people don't like ice cream. I don't know what to tell you.”"
Just southeast of Rawlins on the Overland Trail Ranch, federal and local officials broke ground with shovels on the TransWest Express Transmission Project. It will be a 732-mile powerline that will transfer Wyoming’s wind-generated electricity to the southwest. This is just one way the Biden Administration hopes to achieve 100 percent ‘clean’ energy by 2035.
One can take a leaf from the pipeline builders' book and invoke eminent domain, for a good cause of a change.
Most of the proposed power line goes over public lands, so that makes things a little simpler, except of course you have to be respectful of sites that are important to indigenous peoples.
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