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  • How many miles of electric transmission lines are there in the U.S.? In 2000, reports the Edison Electric Institute, there were 517,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines in the U.S. and many hundreds of thousands more miles of distribution lines, carrying electricity to our homes.

 

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