Short supplies of crucial equipment stymie changes to US electricity grid

By Jasmine Garland, Chancellors Postdoctoral Fellow in Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, The Conversation · November 4, 2026

Whether you want renewable energy, fossil fuel power plants, data centers or reduced storm vulnerability, it will require equipment that’s hard to make out of materials that are hard to get.

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