transmission lines

“We just had a citizen referendum that, that rejected a transmission line moving through Maine to deliver hydropower to Massachusetts.”

“Relative, the hype relative to the reality of building out transmission lines that they don't match up. And I have to, I unfortunately have to be a sell. Even though, you know, I generally support lots more transmission build out in this country. I think it's …”

“So we've got about 400,000, just over 400,000 miles of transmission lines in our, in this country, and most of them are lower voltage, so they're still, like, fairly local in terms of how far they can move power. I think it's two-thirds of them. Actually three…”

“There's more than, I want to say there's more than a terawatt of energy generation in these queues across the United States that aren't able to come online because we don't have the necessary transmission to support them.”

“So for the last decade, there really wasn't much, and kind of now it's dried up to a trickle. Like, we're down in the, you know, couple of hundred miles of high capacity, so less than 10% of what we did a decade ago, and that's kind of where we are.”

“There's no, there's never been a shortage of investment capital for this business, but there's a shortage of ways to get your money back when you build useful lines.”

“Having storage, you know, the ability to buffer at one end or both ends makes that even more a highly utilized resource.”

“They're they may only be holding true and really constraining the amount of power that you can safely move through the line, say, 10% of the time. Most of the time, you could move more power through the line.”

“It's going to be easier to permit and get a nuclear plant built than it is to get new transmission lines, and that's just historically how it's been, you know, everywhere I've been, whether it's in the US, the UK, Australia. Over in Taiwan Philippines, people …”

“The transmission line itself is a substitution for baseload power, because if you can move more power over more space, you are Reducing the need to have to generate that power on the other end of that congestion. So in that sense, transmission and generation a…”

“If you're going to change that stretch of transmission line and expect to get higher throughput, you also need to upgrade the substations at both ends. For example, you know, sometimes that might require you to, you know, make other upgrades on the system at t…”

“These were lines that were, like, begun 10 or 15 years ago that just finally got finished.”