We must move fast to avert a national electricity crisis

Years of misguided climate policy have pushed America to the brink of an electricity crisis.

Fossil fuel plants are retiring faster than renewable sources can replace them, at the same time as electricity demand is soaring from AI data centers and the push to electrify everything from vehicles to appliances. Congress and the new administration will have to move fast to avert what could be years of soaring prices and dangerous blackouts.

The scale of the looming capacity shortfall is staggering.