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U.S. trails on advanced grid transmission tech — report

E&E News - Energywire · By Zach Bright · last updated

The United States lags well behind its global peers in deploying transmission lines key to modernizing and cleaning up the grid, according to a new report.

North America’s transmission lines that send electricity over long distances with minimal losses — while also using advanced power conversion technology — make up just 3 percent of such systems in the world, Brattle Group and DNV, a Norwegian global risk management firm, said in the study.

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