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"This is not because the grid has changed, but because there is so much greater threat from extreme weather," said Alison Silverstein, an independent consultant at the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. "And the number of extreme weather events of every kind have increased significantly over the last decade, in particular."
"Electricity systems are an area of shared federal and state jurisdictions," according to Romany Webb, senior fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University. "The fact that we have this split authority between the federal government and the states is one of the factors that contributes to the complexity of the sort of modernizing the grid and building out additional infrastructure.
"The state entities that regulate electric utilities are called state public utility commissions," said Webb. "In some states, those commissioners are elected. So if we're talking about making investments that are going to be really expensive and are going to be increasing electricity bills, they might see a lot of pushback from customers about that and that might affect [the commissioners'] chances of reelection.
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