Dave Walsh

Steve will be on the road in DeLand, Pensacola, and Daytona in the next two weeks on the

To your point, largest rate increase in the history of the country here in Florida by a company building for the people, the residents, all solar, while in Iowa announcing a restart of a nuclear plant for Google.

Yeah, I'll throw them up there also.

D-Land is the Florida Federated Republican Women's Association.

Pensacola is a Heritage event.

Daytona is a Republican Women's Caucus.

Well, Steve, the electricity shortages in Maryland and New Jersey, specifically Northern Virginia,

Now, Pennsylvania, we're caused by the teardown and shutdown of coal plants, the cessation of building nuclear plants, the shuttering of nuclear plants, and the attempt to replace them with wind and solar power and battery storage has not worked, has created a huge shortage.

That's been step one of electricity costs going through the roof, and FERC needs to address that.

Now, here this week, Thursday, Chris Wright,

came out with a decree or a statement to FERC, charging FERC to go ahead and come up with rulemakings by mid-April 26, April 30 of 26, to allow access to large, large users to the grid for fair, timely, orderly, and non-discriminatory access to the grid.

Meaning, of course, data centers and large industrials who are reshoring, which is great.

But we've got some things to think about in this thing, which complicates things.

Industrials already benefit from massive discounting across the country.

Great payers who are residential pay about 17 cents a kilowatt hour.

Industrials pay 9.5% across the U.S.

So they already enjoy massive discounts, and they enjoy...

to the extent they're able to build their own power plants, AI data centers, makers, tax benefits, to write them all off in year one, basically.

So they have some key advantages over residential ratepayers to begin with.

What we hope this turns into, that FERC pushes very hard,