transmission

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The industry plans to spend tens of billions of dollars to build new sources of power generation, high-voltage transmission lines to carry electricity from power plants over long distances, and smaller distribution lines within cities.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

NextEra owns Florida Power & Light, the largest electric utility in the U.S., and is also one of the largest developers of power generation, battery storage and transmission.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

“And it’s only an unfortunate circumstance of this huge epidemic that we were able to get samples and look at chains of transmission and really understand what the virus is doing to people.”

From MarketWatch • May 17, 2026

Fordem said she isn’t concerned only about the transmission line but with everything else that could come with it, such as access roads, switchyards and other industrial markers inside the park.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026

They heated the material to sixty-five degrees—hot enough to warp most proteins—then added acids to curdle the proteins, and the transmission of genes was still unaltered.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee