GridBrief was on site this week at the C3 Energy Summit, hosted by C3 Solutions, where senior federal officials, infrastructure developers, investors, and grid operators gathered to set priorities for the next phase of U.S. energy policy.
The binding constraint on U.S. energy is no longer innovation or capital. It’s time. Permitting delays and litigation risk now set the ceiling on what gets built. This issue captures the assumptions taking shape inside the room, before they become policy.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright used his remarks at C3 this week to lay out how the administration is thinking about energy going forward. The focus was not new programs or targets, but throughput.
Energy policy should be governed “by humans and math,” Wright said, arguing that the core constraint facing the U.S. grid is no longer technology or capital, but the inability to permit and build infrastructure fast enough to meet rising demand.
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