The Future of Power Is Transcontinental, Submarine Supergrids
Jun 09 2021, 10:18 PM
June 09 2021, 1:30 PM
June 09 2021, 10:18 PM
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Ever since President Xi Jinping pitched the idea of a âglobal energy internetâ to the United Nations six years ago, Chinaâs been trying to persuade the world to build the high voltage highways that would form its backbone. That plan to wrap the planet in a web of intercontinental, made-in-Beijing power lines has gone pretty much nowhere. Yet the fortunes of so-called supergrids appear to be turning, if not...
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Ever since President Xi Jinping pitched the idea of a âglobal energy internetâ to the United Nations six years ago, Chinaâs been trying to persuade the world to build the high voltage highways that would form its backbone. That plan to wrap the planet in a web of intercontinental, made-in-Beijing power lines has gone pretty much nowhere. Yet the fortunes of so-called supergrids appear to be turning, if not on quite the spectacular, Bond-villain scale Xi first envisaged.