Super Grid

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.The idea of creating long distance transmission lines in order to take advantage of renewable sources distantly located is not new. In the US in the 1930s, a proposal was made to ship hydroelectric power from dams being constructed in the Pacific Northwest to consumers in Southern California, but was opposed and scrapped. By 1961, U.S. president John F. Kennedy authorized a large public works project using new HVDC technology from Sweden. The project was undertaken as a close collaboration between General Electric of the U.S. and ASEA of Sweden and is now known as the Pacific Intertie.

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The idea of creating long distance transmission lines in order to take advantage of renewable sources distantly located is not new. In the US in the 1930s, a proposal was made to ship hydroelectric power from dams being constructed in the Pacific Northwest to consumers in Southern California, but was opposed and scrapped. By 1961, U.S. president John F. Kennedy authorized a large public works project using new HVDC technology from Sweden. The project was undertaken as a close collaboration between General Electric of the U.S. and ASEA of Sweden and is now known as the Pacific Intertie.