The Swiss firm Hitachi Energy is behind new transmission technology that enables clean energy to travel long distances, supporting grid reliability in far-flung areas (cropped, courtesy of Hitachi).
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The high stakes game of clean energy whack-a-mole continues in the US, and President Donald Trump is losing, bigly. His extraordinary efforts to squash the domestic wind industry are temporary at best, while new evidence of failure keeps popping up like algae in a shallow pool. The latest example is the massive, 550-mile, 3-gigawatt SunZia transmission line connecting energy-thirsty states with a new wind farm in New Mexico. The decades-long effort has culminated in success, despite Trump and his friends in the fossil fuel industry.
The Long Road To Clean Energy Just Got Shorter
Multi-state transmission lines are a tough nut to crack, clean energy or not, due to the extra layer of complexity required to coordinate multiple jurisdictions. Similar projects were proposed in the early 2000’s, only to slide into the dustbin of endless delays if not outright failure.
