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World Spending on Cables Will Have to Rival Solar and Wind Power

Bloomberg · Will Mathis · last updated

But it would be a big omission, because cables are the backbone  of the electric grid. In many cases, building a grid that can take on all those renewables can be more expensive than the cost of the solar and wind farms themselves.

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