How Grid United Can Align With America’s Industrial Renaissance
By Lisa Bennett
As the push to bring manufacturing back to American soil accelerates under the current administration, energy demand is skyrocketing. National leaders are aggressively courting multi-trillion-dollar investments to rehome industrial plants, tech hubs, and energy intensive data centers across the American West, including Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Northern California.
For projects like Grid United’s 420-mile North Plains Connector, aligning with this economic renaissance offers a tremendous opportunity to set a new gold standard for American energy resilience. As our nation celebrates its 250th anniversary, corporations that build our critical infrastructure have a unique patriotic calling: to look past a century-old dependency on heavy steel-core technology and invest in the next 250 years of American prosperity. Montana Public Service Commission (PSC) Commissioner Randy Pinocci has highlighted the immense stakes involved in building a grid capable of supporting this growth, emphasizing the vital role of modern technology:
“I have a responsibility to point out these common-sense benefits of carbon core transmission lines.”
