P3s are a tremendous tool to help build large-scale complicated and critically important infrastructure. As useful as they are, they are also greatly misunderstood. […]
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The Rural Grid Squeeze
How Data Centers, Copper Thieves, and Pipeline Physics Are Converging on America’s Cooperatives Executive Summary America’s 890 rural electric cooperatives own 42 percent of […]
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The Transitional Electric Grid: From Centralized to Distributed
This is part of a series on electric utilities in the United States. Follow along to learn more about both electric infrastructure and markets. […]
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The Traditional Electric Grid: Centralized, One-Way Power
This is the first blog in a series on electric utilities in the United States. Follow along to learn more about both electric infrastructure and […]
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The Gap California Hasn’t Named: What California’s refinery crisis reveals about infrastructure cost management in every state
The Gap California Hasn’t Named What California’s refinery crisis reveals about infrastructure cost management in every state Introduction On March 19, 2026, the California Transportation […]
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The Gulf Coast Illusion: The Energy Vulnerability No One is Tracking
The Gulf Coast Illusion: The nation’s implicit fuel insurance policy is being sold overseas and nobody is watching the balance sheet. By Mothusi Pahl, Hartwell […]
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The Canary in California’s Coal Mine: Imminent Lessons From the Philippines
The Canary in California’s Coal Mine What the Philippines Energy Crisis Tells Us About What’s Coming to California and the Signals the Nation Should Not […]
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Measuring the Underground
Measuring the Underground: Advancing a New Estimate for the Total Linear Mileage of Buried Infrastructure in the United States —————— Abstract Trillions of dollars of […]
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The Sovereignty Trap: Energy, National Security, and Federalism
The Sovereignty Trap How California’s Refinery Decline Exposes the State’s Most Valuable Asset to Federal Preemption Introduction The United States’ primary Air Force Base for […]
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Transportation Corridors Can Do More – Colocating Utilities Unlocks the Full Value of Infrastructure
Across the United States, transportation corridors already host an enormous amount of critical infrastructure. Highways, rail lines, and other rights-of-way frequently often carry buried electric […]
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Powering the AI Race: Treating Energy as Strategic Infrastructure
If there’s a single bottleneck preventing the U.S. from reaching its full potential with Artificial Intelligence (AI), it is energy. A recent report from the U.S. Department […]
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America’s Global Competitiveness Starts with Infrastructure at Home
Since 2013, when Communist Chinese President Xi Jinping first introduced his Belt and Road Initiative (“BRI”), it has become the largest infrastructure program in history, […]
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Thorium Nuclear Power: An Unspoken Alternative?
The United States of America is currently undergoing a period of significant change, both politically, economically and technologically. However, one of the most persistent questions […]
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An Overview of ERCOT and Texas’s Energy Grid
There are three main interconnected power systems in the United States: the Western Interconnection, the Eastern Interconnection, and the Texas Interconnection. The Lone Star State’s […]
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Why Can’t the US Recycle Nuclear Waste?
A common criticism of nuclear energy is the need to store spent fuel. Another criticism, albeit a less common one, is the personal and environmental […]
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