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Strategic Grid Modernization for Enhanced Energy Security and Industrial Competitiveness: A Multi-Pillar Framework for the United States

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  • Parsons, Noah

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The United States electrical grid faces unprecedented challenges from surging demand, cybersecurity threats, and climate-related disruptions. This paper presents a comprehensive strategic framework for grid modernization organized around three interdependent pillars: technological innovation and deployment, regulatory reform and workforce development, and strategic public-private partnerships. Drawing on comparative analysis of international approaches and synthesizing current policy gaps, we propose actionable recommendations including accelerated smart grid deployment, streamlined transmission permitting, mandatory cybersecurity standards, and domestic supply chain fortification. Our phased implementation strategy projects that achieving 80% renewable integration, 99.97% grid reliability, and elimination of foreign dependency for critical components is feasible within a ten-year horizon given appropriate policy support and investment frameworks. The framework positions grid modernization not merely as infrastructure renewal but as a strategic imperative for maintaining American industrial competitiveness and national security in the 21st century

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  • Parsons, Noah, 2025. "Strategic Grid Modernization for Enhanced Energy Security and Industrial Competitiveness: A Multi-Pillar Framework for the United States," MPRA Paper 126569, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:126569
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    JEL classification:

    • F52 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy - - - National Security; Economic Nationalism
    • H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures
    • L33 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - Comparison of Public and Private Enterprise and Nonprofit Institutions; Privatization; Contracting Out
    • L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
    • L94 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Electric Utilities
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • O38 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Government Policy
    • Q41 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Demand and Supply; Prices
    • Q48 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Government Policy

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