We can't afford for the grid to go down at all.

One of the key risks for the grid over the next decade is actually policy.

If that equilibrium is possible with the free market is, I think, a question on the minds of many people.

We have an increasing outages, a lot of this weather related,

the price of electricity is now a lot more volatile.

How decentralized can they be?

Is it going to be 100%, is it going to be 50,

is it going to completely fail?

The new grid, the decentralized grid,

is going to look very different than the old grid,

and in many ways it's going to be better, cheaper, more resilient.

That's the future we should be aiming for.

I bet you've heard that our grid needs an update.

But I equally bet that a majority of people, myself included, don't have the

faintest idea of how the grid actually works. We just assume that when we're cold and turn on the

heat, our furnace kicks in and we get a bill at the end of the month.

But as technologies like AI heat up, so too does their demand for power.

This trend happens to coincide with several others,

including the rise of intermittent renewable sources, the increasing bloat in the

approval process for new grid infrastructure, supply chain delays exceeding 12 months, and more.

All these things make the fact that our grid, relying on outdated technology, in some cases

from over a century ago, something of a national emergency.

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