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This ad hoc planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize and host a workshop to discuss opportunities, benefits and barriers for the use of highway and rail rights of way (RoWs) for electrical transmission. A proceedings-in-brief will be published following the workshop.
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Reinventing the Right of Way: Policy, Technical, and Economic Implications of Siting Transmission Lines Along Transportation Corridors: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief
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·2025
Meeting the United States' growing demand for reliable, resilient, and affordable energy will require expanded electric transmission capacity across the nation. As grid planners identify paths to accomplishing this expansion, the co-location of transmission lines along highway and rail rights of way...
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