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Closing the Local Project Loophole: the Case for Competitive Transmission
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Closing the Local Project Loophole: the Case for Competitive Transmission

The surge in AI and data centers risks driving up electricity demand faster than we can deploy the power lines needed to carry it. The high-voltage transmission that this expansion, and economic growth more broadly, relies on is slow and expensive to develop, and stuck in an outdated regulatory system that often hands the work to local utilities without competition. New analysis from the R Street Institute shows what this costs us, finding that, when transmission projects are open to competitive bidding, they get built cheaper and faster.

How Data Centers Can Drive Energy Innovation
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How Data Centers Can Drive Energy Innovation

Necessity, the proverb says, is the mother of invention. That indicates that the reason behind most innovations is that they fill a need. Many of us have a different, more modern way to explain that same observation: free markets work. People see a need, and they innovate to fill it, often crafting a new product or service.

A Consumer-First Grid: How Texas is Privatizing Transmission Delivery Risk to Win the AI Century
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A Consumer-First Grid: How Texas is Privatizing Transmission Delivery Risk to Win the AI Century

America’s electric grid is facing a structural breaking point. Trillions of dollars of artificial intelligence infrastructure, data centers, and industrial reshoring demand power today, but traditional high-voltage transmission upgrades take five to seven years to deliver firm capacity. Under the status quo, large energy consumers are forced to wait in line, threatening stymied global leadership and lost economic growth.

The Future of the Great American Outdoors
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The Future of the Great American Outdoors

In the 154 years since, the world has followed America’s lead, establishing national parks in over 100 countries. The United States now has 63 federally protected national parks, and hundreds of other National Park Service sites including battlefields, trails, seashores, and rivers. Often called “America’s best idea”, all play an incredible role in the preservation of some of the country’s most treasured landscapes. 

Fusion, A Down to Earth Moonshot Worth Taking
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Fusion, A Down to Earth Moonshot Worth Taking

The term “moon shot” was launched in the 1940s, according to research by the Oxford English Dictionary. “The real result of all the work which would have to go into the moon shot,” Rotarian magazine wrote in 1949, “would be the knowledge of how to build and operate rockets of such size.”

How Data Centers Can Help the Grid
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How Data Centers Can Help the Grid

With the AI and data boom underway, electricity has become the top economic infrastructure for growth. Electricity has long been foundational to our society, powering our homes and businesses, but now, it is the primary infrastructure on which the digital economy, advanced manufacturing and an American industrial resurgence depend.

Switch Bioworks Advances Microbial Fertilizer to Corn Trials
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Switch Bioworks Advances Microbial Fertilizer to Corn Trials

Switch Bioworks is moving its engineered microbial fertilizer into U.S. field trials, giving the company a practical test for technology designed to reduce dependence on conventional nitrogen fertilizer. The San Carlos, California-based biotechnology company has received authorization from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to begin advanced research and development field trials across multiple...

U.S. Energy Secretary ties Michigan nuclear power plant to data centers
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U.S. Energy Secretary ties Michigan nuclear power plant to data centers

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright says the Palisades nuclear power plant in Van Buren County will help power data centers while bringing down utility rates when it reopens later this year. Wright discussed the plant during a media availability Monday in Lansing after an event with U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett, R-Charlotte, which he said was...

An urgent message to Congress: Refill the Great Salt Lake
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An urgent message to Congress: Refill the Great Salt Lake

The Great Salt Lake is in decline. Shorelines that once defined northern Utah’slandscape have receded dramatically over the past two decades, exposing thousands of acres of dry lakebed and intensifying concerns over dust pollution, ecosystem collapse, and long-term water scarcity across the Wasatch Front. Scientists have warned repeatedly that if current trends continue, the consequences will extend...

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