Ultra-high voltage power. Electricity game changer!

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  Discussion keeps the world turning.

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  This is Round Table.

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  Hello, welcome to Roundtable, where we serve up piping hot debates on the issues that sizzle in China and beyond.

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  I am Ye Honglin.

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  China's ultra high voltage grid is like the giant pipes in a video game, except instead of delivering Mario to new worlds, is delivering electricity.

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  And not just any electricity, but the kind that could help reduce China's air pollution.

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  Now is this ambitious infrastructure reshape the future of renewable power in China and beyond.

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  For this episode, I'm joined by Ding Heng and Steve Hatherley.

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  Now grab your virtual compass and follow us to the heart of the discussion.

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  Imagine you're standing on a vast remote wind farm in northwestern China.

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  The wind hollowing around you.

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  Thousands of spinning termites generate electricity.

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  But there's a problem.

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  None of it is reaching the bustling cities in the east where energy demand is peaking.

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  So how do we move this renewable energy to the places that need it the most?

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  Enter China's ultra high voltage transmission grid, a colossal project designed to solve this very challenge.

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  So to begin this story, let's start with a little background on where China was in terms of its electricity.

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  Were you playing Mario last night?

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  I'm curious.

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  Hence the conclusion that you drew.

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