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The world’s power grids, 50 million miles’ worth, need a major overhaul (www.theverge.com)
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[–] geeb@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is quite literally the opposite of what we need. Not only do we need more interconnection capacity to be able to locate renewables where they will be most effective but interconnection capacity is going to be crucial with the increased frequency of severe weather events as other grid regions will be able to support others under stress.