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Is the US losing its competitive advantage in energy?
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The US is VERY individualistic...most of the time.
In my local area, one in three houses have some sort of solar. Some have massive batteries. And more are getting solar per day. Ive heard of 0$ bills from PGE where its .50c per kwh. Owners themselves are jumping in on the energy technology.
What I believe we will have is:
Some areas of the US will have extremely good and resilient power grid options. Probably sections of California.
Some areas will not have ANY resiliency (Texas/etc...)
Most areas will have mediocre investments in the power grid.
Im a layman, but I do see a lot of people investing. So dont count them out.
You touched on the big problem the US has. The energy grid is ancient.
Some parts are. From my understanding, its more of a mismash of systems all in a trench coat. Some parts are incredibly good at what it does. Others are barely holding on. All answer to the standards of the multistate network (forgot what its called).
It wouldn't be amaerican if it had any real plan lol.