Shorter wooden towers might carry 115 Kv to 230 Kv
Wide corridor of land is needed for power lines leaving WA Parrish power plant en route to Houston and surrounding areas This group of wires is headed to Houston/ Harris Co and Fort Bend Co on a wide corridor of land. Other towers leave power plant and go different directions. Use Google Earth to view local power station, and trace wires to local sub-stations. And then follow wires into each town and neighborhood, and to more substations to end user Electricity is a wave that travels at the speed of light (approximately) If AC electricity is not consumed at moment when available, it is wasted. Unless the AC is converted to DC and stored in a battery. Cell phone and laptop batteries store AC power. Electric water heater is indirect way to store electric power. Water stays hot in tank for many hours after power is off.