Power grids are facing more demand than ever. Policy needs to catch up.

THERE IS A GAP BETWEEN OPERATIONAL REALITIES AND ASPIRATIONAL POLICIES. THAT GAP IS GROWING, AND NOT SHRINKING AS IT MUST.

Todd Snitchler is the president and CEO of the Electric Power Supply Association, which represents U.S. competitive power suppliers.

For the first time in decades, power demand is growing rapidly across nearly every part of the country due to a host of factors — data centers, reshoring of manufacturing, growing electrification and the rapidly growing pow…