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Distributing over $26 billion in grid investments
Seventy percent of America's power lines and transformers are over 25 years old, and nearly a third of transmission infrastructure has passed its useful life. Now electricity demand is rising at its fastest pace in decades, driven by data centers powering artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, and reshored manufacturing. The Department of Energy just committed $1.9 billion to a program called SPARK that funds a deceptively simple fix: swapping old wires on existing towers for advanced conductors that can carry up to double the electricity, without the decade-long permitting fights required for new power lines.
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