Claims / C-6TGY4V22K5

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Transmission is the energy layer's slowest serial step: the US has never completed more than 4,100 miles of line in a year, and a clean grid needs more than that every year, so wires, not panels, pace electrification.

What's at stake, and why now

Evidence 1 passage

  • groundsAbundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

    And we've never completed more than 4,100 miles of transmission lines in one year, ever. We'd have to build more than that, year after year, to hit these goals.

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