> who...will they sell the juice to?
Utah is already a power exporter. Utah generates about one-fifth more electricity than it consumes, and the state is a net supplier of power to other states.[1]
Utah is already a power exporter. Utah generates about one-fifth more electricity than it consumes, and the state is a net supplier of power to other states.[1]
Transmission is expensive; you'd rather sell locally. Before you finance a $1B project it would be good to have a sense of how you expect to sell the outputs!
Part of what made this project viable IMHO was the adjacency to existing WECC Interface Paths.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WECC_Intertie_Paths#/media/Fil...
Right now we get past a lot of that by bundling up coal and natural gas in trains and pipes and generating closer to the sink.