Tracing the Electricity Network in the United States

Map of United States power grid cursory look like road maps between regions. However, unlike highways, our electrical grid is not planned. The network consists of the interconnection of separate regions and slowly awakened by the local devices as they attempt to connect with their neighbors.

Currently in the United States, more than 241 000 km high voltage transmission lines carry electricity from generating 5400 more than 3,000 company-owned plants. Most of these lines carry alternating current (AC), and 1.9% of them carrying a direct current (DC) are more efficient at a great distance.

Network's function is 99.97% per day. Power failures are caused mainly due to weather U.S. economic losses amounting to Rp 800 trillion annually. Most of the electricity in the U.S. still produced from fossil fuel combustion (half of coal). While the share of hydropower, wind and solar is still less than 8%.

 The state of California imports more electricity than any other state. Resources in the state comes from hydropower in the Pacific Nortwest and coal plants in the desert Southwest. Network southern Oregon-California is the largest single transmission line in the U.S..

California Renewable Energy Act has sparked a wind and solar power projects, also plans to build high-voltage DC lines for distribution. The idea to build a submarine cable along the 1046 km is planned to be used for water-powered electricity import from Oregon.

With electricity demand, new transmission lines will be constructed in various states, one of which projects Tres Amigas near Clovis, New Mexico, which will help the Texas Excessive transmit wind power to many cities in the eastern and western United States.

Turbines are implanted along the Mississippi River and its tributaries are also proposed as a way to generate electricity without establishing water-powered reservoir

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