Harvard Gazette: Global Power Grid for Global Powers
Distributing power may be more challenging than discovering or producing power. State Grid Corporation of China is the world’s largest utility company, and its former Chairman and President, Liu Zhenya, describes how the company's work on transmitting power via ultra-high-voltage lines throughout China could be applied to a global energy grid, “effectively revolutionizing the practicality of green power and enabling outreach to underserved areas,” writes Clea Simon for Harvard Gazette. “Such a grid would transmit power generated by solar, wind, and water around the world, allowing energy-ravenous cities to utilize currently inaccessible clean resources.” With such transmission, the Sahara Desert’s solar energy could meet global supply, and Liu describes a grid of nine latitudinal and nine longitudinal transmission lines circling the globe. Such a smart grid would require standardization among the world’s utilities and would have to withstand attacks from hackers. The grid could cost $38 trillion, but would reduce the world's energy costs. – YaleGlobal
Harvard Gazette: Global Power Grid for Global Powers
World’s largest utility company, State Grid Corporation of China, works on long-range electric transmission lines that would allow nations to share energy
Clea Simon
Friday, April 20, 2018
Liu Zhenya has a vision for revolutionizing not just how we produce energy, but also how we share it. Liu, former chairman and president of State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), the world’s largest utility company, is now the chairman of the Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization, a United Nations- and SGCC-affiliated group. Speaking on Tuesday at Harvard Law School, Liu outlined a two-part program for energy independence — and interdependence.
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The Chinese are throughout their history addicted to gigantism. Gigantic canals, gigantic long walls, gigantic desertification, gigantic ghost towns, rivers running gigantically black, food gigantically polluted, gigantically frustrated people who are gigantically oppressed, gigantic violation of human rights...