As necessary as building out and upgrading transmission lines has become, it will come at a cost to consumers.

Over the next decade, Oregon’s need for clean energy is expected to grow exponentially thanks to rising demand for electricity from data centers, heat pumps, electric cars and state climate mandates.

It can take a decade to build transmission lines, and construction fell to an all-time low in 2022. The delays make the US's aging power grid more vulnerable to extreme weather and blackouts. New ...

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This story was produced by Grist and co-published with Verite News. When a winter storm knocked out Texas’ power grid in 2021, the scale of the devastation it wrought was exacerbated by a singular ...

Aging US transmission lines, if not replaced, threaten grid reliability, national security, and economic competitiveness, creating an urgent need for modernization, resilience, and interregional ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An energy infrastructure project bigger than the Hoover Dam is how Hunter Armistead describes the $10 billion venture his company will be overseeing during the next three years. As ...