Laura Pierpoint, CEO of Actuate Climate, discusses the slow pace of power grid expansion in the United States relative to existing infrastructure capacity.
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“In the U.S., we have about 640,000 miles of high voltage transmission lines. Most of these were built in the fifties and sixties, and most of them are operating at full capacity. Last year, we built a grand 386 miles of new line, and our record for the last decade was building just over 3500 miles in 2013.”
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