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Billion-Dollar Power Lines Finally Inching Ahead to Help US Grids
This article by Brian Eckhouse, Naureen S. Malik, and Dave Merrill of Bloomberg sheds light on four major transmission projects that are making progress in development and construction. This is good news for the development of renewable projects and for improving grid reliability. The rapid growth in wind energy across the north-central states and Texas was made possible when two massive transmission projects were energized. The first was the $6.9 billion Texas-CREZ project in ERCOT involving 3,600 miles of mostly 345-kV construction built in 5 years (2008-2013). The second was the $6.57 billion (17-segment) Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) MVP project completed in 2021. These projects enabled the interconnection and transfer of electricity from hundreds of wind farms and improved reliability in the two organized power markets.
Billion-Dollar Power Lines Finally Inching Ahead to Help US Grids
The biggest impediment to the US achieving a cleaner power grid isn't climate deniers or fossil-fuel lobbies; it’s a lack of transmission lines. The country badly needs more conduits to cart wind and solar energy and hydropower to cities.
Source: finance.yahoo.com
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