{"id":58815,"date":"2021-07-30T06:38:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T11:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58815"},"modified":"2021-07-30T06:38:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T11:38:49","slug":"a-stronger-electricity-grid-is-crucial-to-cutting-carbon-does-that-make-it-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58815","title":{"rendered":"A Stronger Electricity Grid Is Crucial to Cutting Carbon. Does that Make It Green?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"article__header\" data-dev-object-descrip=\"organisms\/article\/article__header\" data-dev-status=\"IN-PROGRESS\">\n<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n<h3 data-bind=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/News\/2021\/07\/29\/Stronger-Electricity-Grid-Crucial-Cutting-Carbon\/\">A Stronger Electricity Grid Is Crucial to Cutting Carbon. Does that Make It Green?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p data-bind=\"teaser\"><strong>A proposal to lay cables beneath the Columbia River is met with skepticism from an Indigenous activist and the river\u2019s advocates.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"featured-media\" data-dev-object-descrip=\"02-organisms\/article\/featured-media\">\n<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n<figure class=\"figure \" data-dev-object-descrip=\"01-molecules\/blocks\/figure\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-img\" src=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/News\/2021\/07\/29\/ColumbiaRiverGorge.jpg\" alt=\"ColumbiaRiverGorge.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption\">Wind etches the Columbia River\u2019s surface downstream of Squally Point, at right in the distance. Around the bend lies The Dalles, where Cascade Renewable Transmission partners propose to start laying power cables in the riverbed. The cables would deliver enough renewable energy to Portland to power nearly one million homes.\u00a0<span class=\"caption__media--credit\">Photo by Leah Nash.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<article class=\"article__body main-col-container\" data-dev-object-descrip=\"organisms\/article\/article__body\" data-dev-status=\"IN-PROGRESS\">\n<div class=\"container-fluid clearfix \">\n<p class=\"editors-note\">[Editor\u2019s note: This is the latest in a year-long occasional series of articles produced by InvestigateWest in partnership with The Tyee and other news organizations exploring what it will take to shift the Cascadia region to a zero-carbon economy, and is supported in part by the Fund for Investigative Journalism.]<\/p>\n<p class=\"lead-in\">Can slicing a 100-mile-long trench into the bed of the Columbia River \u2014 the iconic giant whose flow binds British Columbia, Washington and Oregon \u2014 be good for the environment? The answer is a big yes, says a team of energy developers that proposes submerging power cables in the riverbed.<\/p>\n<p>The developers say the submerged cables could deliver \u201cclean\u201d energy that will be crucial for getting the most densely developed areas of Cascadia off fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>A proposal by renewable energy developer Sun2o Partners and transmission developer PowerBridge would insert the cables into the Columbia at The Dalles in Oregon. This electrical on-ramp is near the towering wind farms and expansive solar farms installed along the Columbia Gorge in eastern Oregon and Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The cables also would intersect and plug into the monster transmission lines at the Bonneville Power Administration\u2019s Big Eddy substation, drawing cheaper solar power from the Southwest, steadier wind power from Montana and Wyoming, and reliable backup power from British Columbia\u2019s supersized hydropower reservoirs.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Stronger Electricity Grid Is Crucial to Cutting Carbon. Does that Make It Green? A proposal to lay cables beneath the Columbia River is met with skepticism from an Indigenous activist and the river\u2019s advocates. Wind etches the Columbia River\u2019s surface downstream of Squally Point, at right in the distance. 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