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Re:Electricity over $900/MWh in most of Western US now by acidburnNSA on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:10PM (#26175653)
Ask anyone who has planned and installed a long-haul transmission line in the past 40 years and they'll tell you that that's gonna be extremely hard. It's simple technically, as is building a lot of a standardized nuclear plant, but it's not easy and will be hit by massive amounts of NIMBY.
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Re:Electricity over $900/MWh in most of Western US now by mrDmrTmrJ on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:24PM (#26175772)
Yes, the regulatory and NIMBY challenges are extreme.

Best way to do it is to go: 1. All underground transmission. 2. Expand the natural gas pipeline permitting process (which is controlled at the Federal level and already overrides state's jurisdiction) to include underground electrical transmission.

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