News Summary

• Data centers, EV charging depots and reshored manufacturing plants are pulling more current through wires than the grid was ever designed to carry.
• Much of the u.s. transmission network was built between the 1950s and 1980s, engineered for a slower-growing, less electrified economy.
• A transformer failure in the wrong substation can shut down a distribution center for days.
• Reliable power underwrites everything from manufacturing schedules to server uptime.
• Every hour of outage ripples through payroll, spoiled inventory and missed shipping windows.