Interesting https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-06/billion-dollar-power-lines-finally-inching-ahead-to-help-us-grids?
The biggest impediment to the US achieving a cleaner power grid isn't climate deniers or fossil-fuel lobbies; it’s a lack of transmission lines. The country badly needs more conduits to cart wind and solar energy and hydropower to cities.
There’s SunZia in the Southwest, TransWest Express in the Mountain West, Grain Belt Express to the Midwest, and Champlain Hudson Power Express into New York City — projects that together will cost at least $13 billion. Some are now ordering expensive equipment, a signal of their advancement. SunZia and TransWest expect to begin construction this year.
“There is no transition without transmission – that’s my new mantra,” says Rob Gramlich, founder of Grid Strategies LLC, a power-sector consulting firm.