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💭   Democracy Means Agreeing with Me: Electrification Past and Present

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The American grid is in trouble. For years, our country has been retiring reliable power plants and building unreliable wind and solar resources. Moreover, most of the country’s power gets allocated in complex power markets where decisions are made beyond the public eye. And areas without markets still fall beneath the aegis of utilities, leviathans who toss their weight around in state politics and often get caught up in corruption schemes. These were problems when America’s power demand stayed flat for decades. Even then, potential solutions felt more like a dizzying labyrinth of rules, regulations, interest groups, and technical minutiae. A new reality of increasing power demand has only intensified both the need for grid reform and ...

American Affairs     May 20, 2025