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Battle brewing over clean-energy delivery grids

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/14/MNFV16FBEG.DTL
Scanned by: Alvis Brigis over 3 years ago

President Obama's vision of a clean energy future of wind farms and solar plants comes with a catch: It will require thousands of miles of new high-voltage power lines to move the energy from where it's most abundant, in the California desert or the plains of the Midwest, to power-hungry urban centers. Obama's allies in Congress, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., are pushing legislation that would give federal officials new authority to site those lines if states don't act quickly enough to expand the grid.

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