Transmission: The Silent Bottleneck Holding Back Renewables
Without new transmission lines, clean energy generated in the north cannot reach consumption centers. The grid sets the ceiling for the energy transition.
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Renewable generation capacity tends to grow faster than the grid infrastructure needed to carry it. The result is a bottleneck: solar and wind farms ready to inject power with no viable path to major consumption centers.
Expanding and modernizing the transmission network is, for many analysts, one of the highest-return investments available to the energy transition. Without it, every additional clean megawatt delivers less than it could.
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