The Reliability Crisis Utilities Don't Want to Talk About

What are the optics?

AI centers are gobbling up power production, transmission space, and water.

Transmission line expansion at a pitiable pace.

A rush to build enough power plants.

Forest fires burn lines and vice versa.

The Trump administration plans to solve power shortages by cancelling windmill projects and subsidizing coal-fired power plants.

(Why not quash the sales of electric vehicles by subsidizing horses?

Just a question.) And, of course, in the meantime, pictures of utility executives at the EEI convention congratulating themselves…