Angie Bond Simpson

And, you know, you're always thinking about, is something going to happen?

Not a total system collapse, just is there a minor component that I'm going to have to repair quickly at night to get it back up and running for the next day?

Do I have good communication with the region?

Is the region also experiencing a heat wave?

Is

Is there not enough capacity on the market?

And what I can say is in 2023 and even in 2024, where we had over 100 days, over 100 degrees, the system behaved very well, but it was stressful.

It was continued stress of making sure of double checking, of communicating with cities and

and making sure they knew what our plans were.

And I have no other way of describing it other than stressful.

And that's on a successful year, right?

That's when all the plans were put into place and they worked and everybody did their job.

And, you know, still, it was hard.

Right, right.

Exactly, exactly.

It's everybody is holding their breath and waiting for it to cool off.

That pace is, to use a very technical term, bonkers.

Because just to cite transmission lines can sometimes take...

Three to five years, in some cases, a decade to site generation and go through processes for public input and environmental compliance and working with a community and hiring a firm to go out and construct that can take six years.

And so you've got this just growing year over year over year demand.