A Seriously Long-Term Investment: Inside SunZia's Transmission Adventure

Published on December 8, 2020

When planning to decarbonize the grid, many analysts see transmission lines as analogous to "political will." It's necessary and it's rarely possible to summon it from scratch. In the Southwest, though, a private enterprise has pushed forward on work to deliver renewable power from a windy swath of New Mexico to the ravenous reaches of California. The company, SunZia, offers lessons in long-term financing and budgeting- and in living with utilities as the grid undergoes upheaval.

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