The predictions that the United States will need to build 47,000 miles of additional high-capacity transmission lines by 2035 are the most blatantly “fantasy” part of the much-ballyhooed “energy transition” too far.
That is the opinion of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) ardent proponents of renewable energy, not of renewable energy skeptics.
The DOE noted in an evaluation released in early March that a lot of new transmissions will be needed, assuming a moderate load and a significant increase in “green” energy, “in line with the future power sector enabled by all currently enacted laws.”
In other words, this is the additional capacity needed to meet demand growth brought on by the Biden administration’s and liberal state government’s plans to electrify all new structures, do away with gas stoves and furnaces, convert coal and natural gas plants to wind and solar, and introduce millions of new electric vehicles that require regular charging to the road.
The difficulties encountered in building a single new transmission line to transport power produced by Wyoming wind turbines 732 miles west to demand markets in California serve as an example of how absurd this 47,000-mile goal truly is.
Construction on the TransWest Transmission Project, a top priority for the Biden administration, began this past week, but only after a protracted 18-year battle to secure the requisite rights-of-way, funding, and local, state, and federal approvals.
There is no misprint in that number. And get this: Just the first phase of the multi-phase system will need to be built and put into service, which will take another 4 years, or until 2027.
The beginning of the TransWest project’s construction marks a “momentous milestone” in the administration’s efforts to overhaul the country’s entire energy system, according to Deb Haaland, Biden’s extremely environmentally conscious secretary of the Interior.
The specifics of how Ms. Haaland and her fellow Biden officials intend to obtain permits for the remaining 46,268 new miles of high-capacity transmission over the coming years after the time required to prepare this 732-mile project for its construction phase spanned across four different presidential administrations, were omitted by Ms. Haaland.
The TransWest developers started the process of getting the government licenses for the project no less than 16 years ago, early in the second term of the George W. Bush administration, according to a story this week from E&E Daily.
As reported by E&E, “The project faced pushback from some environmental groups over potential impacts on natural resources and from communities and private landowners who did not want power lines crossing their property or impacting their views.”
Of course, it did, and every other project intended to complete the remaining 47,000 miles will be subject to the same pressures from the same stakeholders, all of whom have the right to protest power lines atop enormous, 100-foot-tall towers that will condemn millions of acres of land and become a permanent blot on viewsheds across the country.
This is how the American system functions, including the Bill of Rights.
Sen. Joe Manchin has emphasized the necessity of reforming the federal permitting process, and so have other members of Congress, largely Republicans. But the uncomfortable fact is this with regard to that: Nearly all federal energy-related project delays are caused by significant legislation that is a part of our system’s attempts to safeguard the environment.
The recent debt ceiling compromise included language that should simplify National Environmental Policy Act permitting but does nothing to address issues raised by the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Endangered Species Act, and other significant environmental laws.
Additionally, the phrase did little to simplify the literally thousands of different permitting criteria that must be met at the state and local levels, all of which will have an influence on any proposed transmission projects.
Anyone who believes the TransWest project’s lengthy timeline and complexity are some kind of anomaly or one-off is almost definitely unfamiliar with the byzantine regulatory procedures.
Furthermore, it is a dream to believe that the United States will construct 47,000 miles of additional high-capacity transmission lines in under 12 years.
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