NB Power asks to spend $300M, says ‘grid stretched thin’

NB Power asks to spend $300M, says ‘grid stretched thin’

Utility files application to upgrade transmission capacity throughout southern N.B. in aftermath of the province's massive population boom

Our electricity grid is full, partly overcrowded. Something needs to be done about that. "In fact: solving the problems can yield 10 to 40 billion euros in economic benefits". But: what will that cost? Well: ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-FIVE MIL (no idea why there is a space here, ed.) JARD EURO. That is a 1, with a 9, with a 5, and then another nine zeros. 195,000,000,000. So that is if you have a million euros, a thousand of them, and then that 195 …