Source: Niskanen Center
by Chelsey Gilchrist
“Households across America are feeling the pinch of rising energy bills. Policymakers are desperate for fixes — subsidies, new power plants, or small upgrades to local grids — but costs keep climbing. What’s needed is a different solution. And that’s where transmission comes in. Think of transmission like Ozempic. At first glance they couldn’t be more different, one being a groundbreaking diabetes medication, and the other long wires stretching across the nation. Yet they share a common role: both are systemic fixes that can replace stopgap solutions and provide ripple effects benefitting long-term stability.” [editor’s note: Centralized generation and long-distance transmission over vulnerable lines are both inherently unstable. Decentralized hyper-local generation, not “grids,” is the fix – TLK] (09/02/25)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/transmission-the-ozempic-for-our-energy-bills