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I thank the power company should be expedite licecsing of cost-effective tranmission, which is a good news to customers, meanwhile they also could get the price of power down as possible as they can.

No.

As to options, we should be looking into long distance superconducting technology

Yes we should increase capacity asap. Waiting for the far off development of super conducting technology is just more environut stalling techniques.

The problem seems to be mostly political. A new line got approved in northern West Virginia after a line to do almost the same thing was blocked in Pennsylvania. There was a lot of controversy about who benefitted and who paid. The power companies had a lot of history of dissatisfaction from past lines and right of ways and the way they were maintained. You ought to see what a helicopter spraying trees can do for deforestation when the trees are in your yard you get a careless pilot. These type of stories (true or not ) abound. The big argument here was that the line was suposedly transmitting power out of state, but local users were having to pay for it. Someone definitely needs to figure out the econonomics for generation and distribution more systematically.