Green energy gridlock

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🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Lyle Jack wants to build a wind farm on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. But to make the project work, he has to connect that wind farm to the electric grid. Which is easier said than done. On today's show - how the green energy revolution may live, or die, by bureaucrats trying to untangle a mess of wires.

This episode was produced by Willa Rubin. It was edited by Sally Helm, fact-checked by Sierra Juarez, and engineered by Katherine Silva. Jess Jiang is our acting executive producer.

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0:00.0	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:06.7	There are so many ways to entertain yourself on a road trip.
0:10.7	There's the Guess the License Plate Game where you try to spot all 50 states.
0:14.2	There's the game where you guess what the hazardous materials placard on the side of a truck
0:18.5	means, and then there's my favorite.
0:20.9	The name the crop in that field game.
0:22.9	Is that corn?
0:23.9	Nope, it doesn't look like corn.
0:26.4	I'm curious.
0:28.2	This is the road trip game I was hoping to play with my friend Dan Charles a few weeks
0:32.8	back.
0:33.8	We were driving through Nebraska on our way to report a story.
0:37.1	Asparagus?
0:38.1	I wonder what sorghum looks like after you cut it.
0:41.2	Dan you may remember was NPR's longtime agriculture reporter, which is why I was very excited
0:47.0	to play the Guess the Crop Game with him.
0:49.3	No one better.
0:50.6	But he was on to a whole new game.
0:52.8	Oh, it's Powerline.
0:54.3	We're going under the Powerline.
0:56.0	We spot the Powerline game.
0:59.2	One 15 kilowatt line marching across the landscape.
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