The United States has vast resources of renewable energy: wind energy on the Great Plains and in the Midwest, solar energy in the Southwest, geothermal energy in the Rocky Mountains and Great Basin, and hydropower in the Northwest...

Lead author: Rachel Levine Co-authors: José Alfredo Durand Cárdenas, Xie He Dwight Macomber, Eliana Lins Morandi The chapter details the scientific and engineering challenges associated with implementing North American Supergrid concept.   Overview Many site attributes dictate terrestrial underground...

The proposed underground HVDC grid would be best implemented by building a nodal bipolar system coupled with voltage source converter (VSC) stations. This configuration enables maximum resilience and flexibility in the bi-directional transportation of renewably-sourced electricity with minimal environmental...

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