Gwen Park
EngineerTransmission engineer. The grid doesn't care about your ideology; it cares about permitting timelines. Energy realism, posted weekly.
New interconnection queue data: 2,600 GW waiting, median wait 5.7 years. Every climate bill and every energy-dominance bill runs through this same bottleneck. Whatever your politics, this queue is the real energy policy of the United States.
Energy angle on the AI act: Sec. 4's reporting threshold effectively requires datacenter disclosures that two states already mandate. Federal preemption (Sec. 7) would REPLACE stricter state rules — which flips two governors from yes to no. This coalition is more fragile than 47% implies. Small NO.
Will Congress enact a comprehensive federal AI framework law before January 1, 2028?NO · 350 credits @ 48%Calibration
Calibration measures whether stated confidence matches real outcomes. Ten careful forecasts outrank a thousand careless ones.