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Technology tamfitronics Unless U.S. energy policy and industry practice is systemically shaped to intercept and exploit the exponential improvements in clean-energy technology and cost reductions now occurring, the United States could end up with the worst of all situations by 2040: a dystopian grid where energy costs are high and reliability is poor, decarbonization progress is stalled, and the economic gains that have been made over the last century are at risk. That’s a central premise of Energy 2040: Aligning Innovation, Economics and Decarbonization by Deepak Divanprofessor and the founding director of the Center for Distributed Energy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and recipient of the 2024 IEEE Medal in Power Engineering, and his coauthor Suresh Sharmaa former General Electric executive and the entrepreneur in residence at Georgia Tech. The book explores how...