This was a problem a decade ago as solar and wind were being built (i.e., away from demand centers) and is now a problem due to expansive load growth. And we’ve sabotaged the deployment of capital here bc merchant (long-range) transmission can’t outcompete clusters of smaller, local projects with little oversight that PUCs utilities overwhelmingly build, due to (mostly valid!) reliability concerns in their footprint. A lot of competing and conflicting signals
Possibly the most painful chart to look at in energy policy: