MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • December 18, 2022
By harnessing the power of the sun and the wind using the technology available now, we can reduce the use of fossil fuels and make great strides toward climate goals while reducing prices for consumers. Unfortunately, to do so, we’ll have to build more transmission lines – something that at times has proved vexing. For reasons largely to do with disagreement about land use and aesthetic concerns, utility-scale clean-power projects have been delayed or blocked by local opposition. That’s a problem. Solar arrays and wind turbines must go where the wind blows and the sun shines. Transmission lines then carry the power to the grid. The transition to renewable power is no longer held back by technology but by supply chain problems, labor problems – and opposition to necessary projects.