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…