The Trump Administration Wants to Protect Electricity Customers while Supporting Data Center Development. Here’s How.

“…CRE begins to move the electricity industry toward something it has lacked for nearly a century: meaningful institutional competition.

Most American industries improve because entrepreneurs are free to experiment. Companies develop new technologies, business models, and production methods using private capital while bearing the consequences of success or failure. Electricity, by contrast, remains organized around regulatory structures designed when monopolies were thought to be the only practical way to provide power.

That assumption deserves another look. The most transformative period in the history of electricity came before today’s regulatory model fully took shape. During the late 19th century, inventors such as Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla competed to develop better ways of generating and delivering electricity. Competing technologies, not centralized planning, produced the foundations of the modern electrical system.

CRE creates space for that kind of experimentation again. Companies could test new approaches to generation, reliability, storage, and network design without imposing risks on captive ratepayers. Failed ideas would remain isolated. Successful ones could spread throughout the industry.”

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