[HN Gopher] High Voltage Direct Current Transmission Line to Con... ___________________________________________________________________ High Voltage Direct Current Transmission Line to Connect 3 ISO Regions Author : 1970-01-01 Score : 15 points Date : 2023-02-17 22:09 UTC (50 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (pv-magazine-usa.com) (TXT) w3m dump (pv-magazine-usa.com) | xxpor wrote: | >Skelly is behind a previous transmission development company, | Clean Line Energy, which dissolved in 2017 when a multi-state | project failed to secure state regulatory approval. | | We desperately need the feds to take over these approvals under | the interstate commerce clause. We will need a ton of | transmission infrastructure over the next decade, and we can't | have things being held up or denied by the states just because | they happen to be in the path. See the vote in Maine over the | proposed line from Canada to NY. | readthenotes1 wrote: | why should maine suffer without adequate recompense for others? | Animats wrote: | Ones that are close together, though. | | We need about four HVDC lines through the Sierras, to connect the | US wind belt (the Texas panhandle north to Canada) to the West | Coast. Plus lines east to Chicago and beyond. | toomuchtodo wrote: | > Plus lines east to Chicago and beyond. | | https://soogreen.com/ | | https://www.eenews.net/image_assets/2019/03/image_asset_5031... | Animats wrote: | Oh, good. | | Now if we can only get the westbound links in place. | | There's a New Mexico to Arizona link going in, which is nice | for Phoenix but doesn't go far enough. The TransWest Express | project (Wyoming to Las Vegas, which already has good | westbound connections) has been in studies for a decade now. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-02-17 23:00 UTC)