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[et_pb_section fb_built=1 admin_label=section _builder_version=4.27.2 global_colors_info={}][et_pb_row admin_label=row _builder_version=4.27.2 background_size=initial background_position=top_left background_repeat=repeat global_colors_info={}][et_pb_column type=4_4 _builder_version=4.16 custom_padding=||| global_colors_info={} custom_padding__hover=|||][et_pb_text admin_label=Text _builder_version=4.27.2 text_text_color=#000000 header_text_color=#000000 header_2_font=--et_global_heading_font|||||||| background_size=initial background_position=top_left background_repeat=repeat global_colors_info={}]By THRYVE There’s a growing buzz across the energy world—and not the kind we like. This summer, on July 7, the U.S.Department of Energy waved a big red flag that the US grid is at the tipping point. This report warns that a combination of rising demand, thermal retirements and dated reliability tests leave the grid vulnerable to increased blackouts in the next five years. In simpler terms,  power outages are expected to get worse. What’s a thermal retirement? It’s not a spa day for power plants. It means coal, gas, and nuclear plants are shutting down permanently. And they’re doing it faster than we’re building new, reliable replacements. In fact the DOE concluded the US faces a 100-fold increase in longer, more severe power outages by 2030.  The Grid’s Not Ready for What’s Coming These plants may be dirty and outdated, but they’ve long been the grid’s dependable workhorses—providing what we call firm capacity, or energy that can be dispatched on demand. But the U.S. is losing firm capacity just as demand for electricity is surging, thanks to rising temperatures, wildfires, AI, population growth, and a whole lot of new electric vehicles, data centers, and energy consuming devices. In other words: the grid is stretched thin. And stretched grids? They snap. Peak risk = peak summer. According to the DOE and Wood Mackenzie, these changes are setting us up for more frequent and