Sabree Beneshour
speaker
233 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 17 Feb
Sabree Beneshour’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We're not using it efficiently.
So it costs a lot of money just to replace and repair and modernize our grid infrastructure.
For years, there was underinvestment in the power grid as a way to keep prices down, according to Thomas Rollins-Reese, head of power market analysis at Bloomberg.
Underinvestment in the grid hasn't been a problem because U.S.
power demand has been stagnant.
U.S.
power demand is definitely not stagnant anymore.
And the long-delayed upgrade bill is catching up with all of us, he says.
Dan Pickering is co-founder of Pickering Energy Partners.
Just from population growth, reshoring of industrial activity, and just more things that are electric, like cars.
Add on top of that data centers, and demand growth is expected to increase from 1.5% to 2.5% each year.
But there's another thing driving electricity and gas costs up.
The market price of natural gas, which powers a lot of power plants.
Thomas Rowlands-Reese again.
One reason is because new shipping terminals are allowing us to export more of it, leaving less gas here at home and pushing up prices.
In New York, I'm Sabree Beneshour for Marketplace.
Coming up... This is medical care.
It was really dumb that it was not fixed a decade ago.
We've been fighting this fight for 15 years.
This is medical care.
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