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My only guess is that they are limited by the transmission lines. Upstate NY has a lot of hydro and wind power, and actually produces more energy than it can e
by chrisBob 12y ago
My only guess is that they are limited by the transmission lines.
Upstate NY has a lot of hydro and wind power, and actually produces more energy than it can export on a lot of days. The obvious answer is to build more high voltage transmission lines, but people are fighting them for two reasons:
No one wants to live under the transmission lines, and when they build transmission lines next to your house your electricity gets more expensive because the cheap power being exported to the rest of the state.
- cpwright 12y agoI don't live quite upstate, but we already have a nuclear power plant; and our town supervisor is complaining about a plan to land a transmission line in the town not to far from it to export power from upstate to downstate (http://westpointproject.com/ http://westpointproject.com/). The HVDC converter will buzz.