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> who...will they sell the juice to? Utah is already a power exporter. Utah generates about one-fifth more electricity than it consumes, and the state is a net
by kitten_mittens_ 3y ago
> who...will they sell the juice to?
Utah is already a power exporter. Utah generates about one-fifth more electricity than it consumes, and the state is a net supplier of power to other states.[1]
[1] https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=UT https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=UT
- loeg 3y agoThis tribe is in Colorado, not Utah, despite the name. Transmission is expensive; you'd rather sell locally. Before you finance a $1B project it would be good to have a sense of how you expect to sell the outputs!
- nyrikki 3y agoThere is a star of WECC transmission lines going all around the region just south of the Colorado border near ShipRock NM. Part of what made this project viable IMHO was the adjacency to existing WECC Interface Paths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WECC_Intertie_Paths#/media/File:Western_US_electrical_power_transmission_map.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WECC_Intertie_Paths#/media/Fil...
- pixl97 3y agoSimply put, we're going to have to build transmission infrastructure in the US. Right now we get past a lot of that by bundling up coal and natural gas in trains and pipes and generating closer to the sink.
- justinwp 3y agoTransmission lines are already there because of the nearby decommissioned coal plant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Juan_Generating_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Juan_Generating_Station