The U.S. Needs 5000 Miles of New High-Voltage Lines Annually. It Only Built 392

There is an old Yiddish expression that translates literally as “stop beating the teapot” which we would freely translate as, “We’ve heard this before, so why don’t you just stop?” Well, as new numbers come out and our great leaders keep coming up with new solutions to whatever they think ails the energy sector, we just can’t resist.

So here they are, the latest yearly average of miles of high-voltage transmission added to the grid since 2010: Transmission lines of under 345KV are largely used for local…