A Smarter Electric Grid

UNDERGROUND POWER DELIVERED "BY RAIL"

Stop MPRP, Inc. recently shared a new solution to the power grid dilemma that is ripping through communities, disrupting farmland, and violating delicate ecosystems nationwide. Below is their summary of a better delivery system that eliminates the destruction accompanying overhead transmission lines.

As the nation argues over where to put massive new transmission lines—through farms, forests, and fragile communities—Stop MPRP says it’s time to flip the script. What if the grid didn’t need to go over land at all? What if it went underground—tucked neatly alongside the thousands of miles of railway corridors already connecting cities, ports, and rural towns?

It’s not science fiction. It’s called underground HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current), and when paired with the railway network, it’s one of the most powerful, elegant solutions that is hiding in plain sight.

This approach could:

• Avoid eminent domain and land seizures by staying within or beneath existing rights-of-way

• Build faster, using pre-established infrastructure corridors

• Deliver power with greater efficiency and precision than traditional overhead AC lines

• Boost national resilience, shielding key energy arteries from fires, storms, and physical threats

• Power the AI revolution, supplying the massive, stable electricity needed by data centers and high-performance computing hubs

• Revive U.S. manufacturing, bringing cheap, abundant energy to next-generation industrial sites and reshoring efforts

• Protect landscapes, ecosystems, and rural communities from becoming sacrifice zones

• Lower long-term costs by streamlining siting, minimizing transmission loss, and reducing the need for constant upgrades

This is the foundation for a National Railway Super Grid to provide a clean, high-capacity, underground power network that quietly runs beneath the tracks of commerce and innovation.

This isn’t just a better grid—it’s a smarter national strategy, one that puts the U.S. on a stronger footing to lead in AI, manufacturing, and energy security.

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