Subject: Re: Billions in damages
Might the nationwide exponentially growing demand for energy offset the limitations of antiquated systems? Here's a WaPo article that describes the exploding demand for more energy even as utilities are being punished for outdated transmission capabilities. Seems like something has to give.

https://wapo.st/3IqeK6P

Vast swaths of the United States are at risk of running short of power as electricity-hungry data centers and clean-technology factories proliferate around the country, leaving utilities and regulators grasping for credible plans to expand the nation’s creaking power grid.

Tom