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Pete Rose on Delivering Hydro-Québec Power to New York City: VX 2026
In this excerpt from VX2026's plenary "Can We Still Build Big Things?" Pete Rose, Senior Director for Stakeholder Relations at the Champlain Hudson Power Express sets the table with a case study in what it actually takes to build big: a 375-mile buried high-voltage line from a substation outside Montreal into the heart of New York City. Read along as Rose recounts the fourteen years it took to bring the project to life. A recording of the entire plenary can be found here.