“While federal and state officials put the brakes on new coal-fired power plants and as investors back out of others, the demand for more renewable energy will only grow stronger. And as it turns out, the spots with the best renewable resources also have the harshest and often least habitable climates – dry, hot, windy, barren, etc. – so the electricity then needs to be transmitted to areas where people have settled (i.e. cities). And that is where some problems are surfacing.”
— Transmission Politics Hold Up Utility-Scale Solar : Red, Green, and Blue
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