U.S. Energy @SecretaryWright on grid utilization: "The states that have done the best on electricity prices, all of them have fast demand growth. The faster your demand growth is, the more you can push your electricity prices down. And another reason for this, it's just more efficient use of assets. Our electricity grid today, as we sit here, it only operates at about 50% capacity. So today, we've got hundreds of gigawatts of spare power right now."

Mar 30, 2026 · 11:24 PM UTC

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Spare capacity is one thing. Delivering it is another. We see projects stuck in interconnection queues for years while grid assets sit underutilized. Transmission is the real bottleneck.
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