Page Crahan

New Capabilities

Leading Alphabet's moonshot for the electric grid

America's power grid was designed for a world that no longer exists. Built largely in the mid-twentieth century, it now faces a collision: electricity demand is rising at the fastest rate in decades, driven by data centers, electric vehicles, and manufacturing reshoring, while the queue of new power projects waiting to connect stretches past 2.6 terawatts—more than twice the grid's current installed capacity. New transmission lines take a decade or more to build. The math doesn't work.

Updated Feb 18