Beamed Power

see this link

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/solar.renewables/renewable.energy.annual/backgr
nd/ch10note.htm

many potentially useful sources of info...

15. The majority of circuit miles of overhead electric line of 115 kilovolts
through 230 kilovolts in 1992 were 115-kilovolt lines. The cost assumptions
for this analysis therefore considered 115- kilovolt transmission lines for
construction and interconnection. See Edison Electric Institute, Statistical
Yearbook of the Electric Utility Industry 1992 (Washington, DC, October
1993), p. 97.

Also, they have a link

http://www.eia.doe.gov/contacts/main.html

to contact experts

here are the electric power experts

http://www.eia.doe.gov/contacts/electric.htm

and here is the guy for transmission data

Transmission Data
John Makens
287-1749
john.makens@...

Tom M.
TomM@...