01 · The Library — Systems & Power
Nobody Voted for the Grid
The most consequential infrastructure decisions of the century are being taken in rooms with no press and no public.
Transmission planning is the least glamorous document in energy policy and the one that decides more than any manifesto. It is also, almost everywhere, exempt from the consultation requirements that apply to a supermarket car park.
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