Wind and solar power also require huge amounts of land and expansive transmission lines to deliver electricity from remote sites.

FORBES: Environmental Groups Strongly Endorse "None Of The Above" Energy Plans

The Philippines sought danger listing as a way to raise national and international support and cooperation in the preservation of these remote high rice fields maintained thanks to the transmission of traditional knowledge from one generation to the next.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

O3b, by contrast, intends to offer bandwidth on a wholesale basis to internet-service providers, and transmission services to telecom operators, to link remote base stations to their core networks.

ECONOMIST: Telecoms

At the end, geothermal energy companies want California regulators to assign higher values to the steady supply of power they could generate, speed up the permitting process, and promote more transmission line construction to transport geothermal energy from more remote corners of the state to towns and cities.

FORBES: Geothermal Energy's Trouble Competing With Solar

The most ideal locations are typically remote from areas where demands are highest, requiring large investments for power transmission lines and land right-of-way use.

FORBES: Wind Energy's Overblown Prospects