Sentences with phrase «voltage lines across»

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It has grown to a $ 2.4 billion operation with 17 power plants and at least 1,400 miles of high - voltage transmission lines across New York.

The Grid We Have When electricity leaves a power plant today, it is shuttled from place to place over high - voltage lines, those cables on steel pylons that cut across landscapes and run virtually contiguously from coast to coast.

But a study out today suggests that the United States could, at least in theory, use new high - voltage power lines to move renewable power across the nation, and essentially eliminate the need to add new storage capacity.

In coming years the handful of DC transmission lines scattered across the country today may be joined by at least nine new long - distance, high - voltage DC (HVDC) lines that several companies are planning to build.

On 2013/10/25 Grenatec reported that China has plans to built up to 20 high - capacity, high - voltage power lines across its territory in order to connect its western sun, wind and hydro energy sources with its eastern and southern energy - hungry coastal cities.

This electricity and natural gas would then be shipped across the Timor Sea via bundled high voltage direct current power lines and natural gas pipelines.

To minimize power loss, after the electricity leaves the power plant, it is «stepped up» at substations to high voltage and then moved long - distance across transmission lines to get where it is needed.