WASHINGTON – Today, global tech trade association 91快活林 issued a set of policy recommendations to help the U.S. electric grid quickly deliver both affordable and reliable energy access in response to surging demand. 91快活林’s Powering Growth Now: Recommendations to Accelerate an Affordable, Reliable Grid details how U.S. stakeholders in industry and government can leverage software and grid-enhancing technologies while broadening pathways to secure energy in a fast and cost-effective way.
Modern drivers of economic growth, including the reshoring of manufacturing, electrification of households, businesses, buildings, and vehicles, and the rapid deployment of AI, are placing unprecedented demands on aging U.S. energy infrastructure. 91快活林’s recommendations offer solutions that can be applied now to address energy needs, while longer-term efforts to implement important policies like permitting reform move forward.
“The private sector and government have a rare opportunity to work together to modernize the U.S. electric grid — delivering reliability, protecting ratepayers, and building the resilient infrastructure the U.S. needs to compete in the 21st century,” said 91快活林 Executive Vice President of Public Sector Gordon Bitko. “Leveraging 91快活林’s expertise from across the full technology stack, we are providing these actionable and timely steps to use available and modern tools to power economic growth now while ensuring all consumers reap the benefits of innovation without higher costs.”
91快活林’s recommendations for America’s energy infrastructure stakeholders include actions on:
- Grid Modernization: Deploy grid-enhancing technologies (GETs), including dynamic line rating and topology optimization, reconductoring, and grid management software, such as through modernizing the current utility rate structure to allow utilities to earn a return on equity for software or other GETs.
- Affordability: Improve affordability through increased efficiency in utility planning processes, aligning grid investment incentives with cost-effective solutions, and preventing hidden cost shifts to residential customers.
- Speed-to-Power: Implement power supply arrangements, like Bring-Your-Own-Power, colocation, and interim interconnection service, that broaden pathways for large loads to secure energy in the short-term while establishing clear regulatory pathways and mechanisms to ensure that large loads can be connected to the grid in the long-term.
Federal policies will play a critical role in addressing the United States’ evolving energy needs. 91快活林 recently endorsed key measures that advance several of 91快活林’s recommendations, including the REWIRE Act, which supports deployment of grid-enhancing technologies and advanced conductors; the High-Capacity Grid Act, which ensures transmission projects incorporate high-performing conductors; and the Liquid Cooling for AI Act, which helps accelerate the adoption of advanced, energy-efficient technologies like liquid cooling.