Author: Joanne Leovy

High tension, long distance electricity transmission lines

Transmission lines cleared red tape

In order to build enough renewable energy to avoid climate disaster, the U.S. and countries around the world will need to build an enormous amount of transmission capacity to get power from remote solar and wind farms to city centers. The current outlook is daunting. There are more than 8,000 energy projects waiting to connect to the grid. But in 2023 multiple important transmission projects moved forward.