Katie McGinty: The energy economy’s biggest waste problem is already inside the system

As the world looks for a way to meet rapidly growing energy demand, a quiet shift is underway. Scale still matters, but it is no longer decisive. The advantage now goes to systems that are faster to deploy, more precise in operation, and adaptive under pressure. 

This change has already transformed parts of the modern economy. Smaller, cheaper and more agile technologies are proving capable of outpacing far more complex, capital-intensive systems built for a previous era. They move faster, adapt more easily, and deliver results sooner. 

For decades, energy strategy has been defined by one idea: build more. More power plants, more pipelines, more transmission. That logic still........

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