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As the United States confronts unprecedented growth in electricity demand driven by artificial intelligence, data centers, and the reshoring of industrial manufacturing, there is a durable, bipartisan consensus emerging in Washington around the urgent need to modernize our nation’s energy infrastructure.
Both Congress and key federal agencies are advancing a suite of pragmatic, market oriented policies focused on two critical pillars: streamlining the permitting process to unlock private investment and establishing robust guardrails to ensure grid reliability. This memo provides an overview of the key legislative and administrative actions shaping this new landscape.