China’s giant transmission grid could be the key to cutting climate emissions

By James TempleEarly in February 2018, Chinese workers began assembling a soaring red-and-white transmission tower on the eastern edge of Anhui province. They straddled metal tubes as they tightened together latticed sections suspended high above the south bank of the Yangtze River.The men were erecting a critical section of the world’s first 1.1-million-volt transmission line, at a time when US companies are struggling to build anything more