Jane Flegal
Senior fellow at the Searchlight Institute and author of the paper 'Seizing the Data Center Buildout for Grid Modernization', offering policy proposals to align data center buildouts with grid investment and permitting reform.
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Feb 27, 2026 • 36min
The Peril of Talking About Electricity Affordability
Jane Flegal, a senior fellow who previously worked on climate policy at the White House and Stripe, discusses electricity affordability and decarbonization. She debates whether centering affordability helps or distracts. Conversations cover grid planning, transmission financing, limits of demand-shaving tools like virtual power plants, data center impacts, and ideas to shift from scarcity to growth-focused power policy.
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Apr 3, 2026 • 1h 4min
Have we run out of big ideas to fix the grid?
Jane Flegal, a senior fellow at the Searchlight Institute and author on aligning data center buildouts with grid policy, discusses using hyperscaler demand to fund coordinated grid upgrades. She explains a grid infrastructure fund, why moratoria miss leverage opportunities, and how federal and state reforms could align private capital with long-term planning.
