> First they need money and that requires them to secure funding from their regulatory body, which will determine if they can raise the cost of electricity for the customers.
This gets complicated because if the utility wants to build a new line they have to acquire land and nobody is ever happy about that for good reason, and no one wants to pay more in the short term. Look at the keystone pipeline, as there are huge political/social implications for transport of raw energy across large tracts of land.
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