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Although renewable power sector is a promising industry, it is also confronted with many challenges. Two of the challenges faced by this sector are the distance of the site where power is generated and the site where it will be used along with its intermittency or its inability to maintain the rate of the amount of power produced at a given time. Because most renewable energy production sources operate remotely transmission has become quite a challenge. The currently electrical lines proved to be not completely compatible or inefficient in delivering the energy to the end consumers. Also, wind and solar power does not provide a sustained power production rate so it’s pretty much impossible to remove our dependency on fossil fuels completely at this time.

The improvement of the current electrical infrastructure is seen to be the key to addressing the connectivity and capacity issues. Through an improved smart grid, transmission of electricity will become easy and make sure that the energy is used efficiently. This will also lessen the amount of carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere.
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