David Porter
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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The growth of electric transportation has been enormous around the world, and that's going to continue.
I just want to make sure I'm understanding.
Humans or freight or whatever.
Or stuff, yeah, right.
Whether it's an individual personal vehicle all the way up to a Class 8 over-the-road semi.
Yeah, freight liner.
All of that will be electrified.
And it's very different.
You hit the point right on the head.
It's a moving source that needs to be charged.
But that also makes it potentially a valuable resource to the grid.
between charging and discharging and how you match up with what the grid has going on.
Charging vehicles during the day when there's an abundance of solar energy on the grid in a lot of places around the world, that is just a perfect match for the cheap solar energy coming onto the grid to charge those batteries for vehicles.
No, no, that was the first blip.
But the two things that utilities are looking at much more closely now are data center growth and reshoring of industry.
You know, part of giving an example where there's a tie there, there are a lot of new battery factories that have been built in the U.S.
to be able to support not only the electric transportation business, but also the energy storage business using batteries as a grid resource.
So that's growth.
But the data centers are much more unique because they are a very large point load.
And they can build and be operational in a very short period of time.
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