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Renewable Energy-On-Rails Scheme To Cure Transmission Line Blues

19 May 2025 | Abstracted from CleanTechnica

"Running on almost 140,000 route miles, the U.S. freight rail network is widely considered the largest, safest, and most cost-efficient freight system in the world...SunTrain proposes deploying freight trains as high-capacity, rolling energy storage systems...While the transmission grid is already close to capacity, the railroad grid is not. SunTrain can move gigawatt-hours of renewable energy...The next step is a 20-car, grid-connected train..."

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