Grid Utilization Is Becoming A Political Priority

Arnab Pal: [1439.311 sec] I don't know if they're going to get blindsided, but they're about to deal with a grid affordability crisis. [1444.271 sec] So, and I think they're well aware of it. [1446.971 sec] And that's really why the motivation behind putting the time into this paper and thought and getting people together to really put our thoughts down. Jigar Shah: [1456.091 sec] Yeah. I mean, look, I think when you think about, you know, there's sort of a tale of two governors here, right? [1461.611 sec] I mean, Governor Spanberger and Governor Sherrill both got elected at the same time. [1466.131 sec] I think, you know, Governor Spanberger has really pushed this grid utilization concept. [1470.311 sec] And frankly, I think has gotten a tremendous amount of people enthusiastic about this, right? [1475.571 sec] Folks in the grid utilization category, folks who focus on distributed energy resources, folks who are interested in battery storage, folks who are interested in reforming the way in which the electric utility deploys innovation, right? [1489.431 sec] So I think that there's really a big tent of enthusiasm, not just of entrepreneurs, but also of like capital that wants to,