Isaiah Taylor

Utah has a different idea of what a microgrid is than ERCOT in Texas, for example.

And those different ideas will look slightly different in the world and they'll have different outcomes.

And then we can compare and contrast.

And we could say, oh, they did that really well here.

Let's copy that over there.

Oh, Florida figured out how to make this resilient.

Let's copy it in California, right?

Whereas if you try to keep everything highly centralized at the top, you don't go through that learning process and you become increasingly fragile over time.

So I think that today that's exactly where our grid is.

It's very fragile.

And it's fragile because it's centralized, because it does not admit a variance, because it's done the exact same way everywhere.

because it's federally regulated by environmental policy.

FERC would be an example.

Other regulations that touch that for power electronics.

And so if we want to fix this problem, you need to use capitalism to fix it.

That's what we're really good at as Americans.

And to do that, you have to decentralize.

You have to let different companies try different strategies and fix the problem.

So the technical reason for this is resistance.

So you're going to lose power.