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Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by nine_k on Friday October 14, 2022 @05:19PM (#33208923)
Unless a solar plant is built in a completely uninhabited place, could existing allocations / permits for local power distribution be reused to build a larger power line? I mean, there should already be a power distribution grid there, maybe just not powerful enough.
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Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by zbrozek on Friday October 14, 2022 @05:29PM (#33209014)
I suspect a lot of that is what we've been building in the last 10 years, but that the low-hanging fruit is taken. Some next-level fruit is solar shade structures over parking lots at existing retail and office sites.

Big wind projects have had issues reaching viability due to insufficiency of the transmission grid. T. Boone Pickens and the Texas Panhandle comes to mind.

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Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by tuatoru on Saturday October 15, 2022 @05:38AM (#33213259)
Agrivoltaics.

1. https://www.nrel.gov/news/program/2022/growing-plants-power-...

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