Elizabeth Trovall

Because like big, big, big things have to happen in order for companies to invest billions of dollars in that country.

Right.

Yeah, I mean, so, so many panels about how do we meet growing electricity demand.

And I, you know, this could be a whole other conversation, but I think like big picture though, right?

Big picture.

I feel like we're really moving away from an energy transition framework and into a

How do we scale up electricity production so we can win the AI race?

Right.

And like renewable energy will absolutely be a part of that scaling up.

But I think there's like an all hands on deck kind of mentality around like how we build up that infrastructure.

I mean, lots of hard conversations were had like hyperscalers, energy producers, utilities are all kind of

more and more understanding what each other wants and needs.

But there's still lots of open questions, whether it's supply chain issues for gas turbines or long permitting queues.

There's just still lots of unanswered questions and challenges ahead when it comes to this topic.

Yeah, I mean, I think like, I don't know, maybe increasingly so just because I feel like there's an understanding that we need to have like diverse supplies of energy and that we have all this growth and demand in terms of electricity and there's a role for everyone.

Um, and, um, and, and, and I think like there's some frustrations, I think like wherever you fall and the renewable side or the, you know, traditional oil and gas side, um, that like we need strong, um, we need consistency from our, you know, policy.

policymakers in terms of like where are we headed like what do we want as a country in terms of energy um so um but it's interesting you know the conference is split like there's the executives conference that cost eleven thousand dollars and then there's the agora um side that happens in the georgia around convention center next door that's where you see more renewables and kind of um like smaller tech companies that have like solutions for reducing like methane you know or

whatever it may be, like there's so the conference is kind of, kind of bifurcated, but maybe like increasingly, there's like, there's an acknowledgement that it's like a part of a bigger ecosystem, energy ecosystem, and everyone, like kind of needs everyone.

I'm really interested in like lithium and the smackover.

It's a smackover form.