Rung 08 / Where the electrons come from

Energy & Power

Where the electrons come from, and what they cost.

3
Sources
1
Concepts
A polished copper busbar bolted to a steel plate, on paper.

In scope: generation (nuclear, gas, renewables), PPAs and offtake, grid interconnect queues, power arbitrage, energy ownership as a moat, transformer and switchgear lead times, energy cost pass-through. Out: the buildings themselves (datacenters), the cost of a token (inference-economics).

A transformer with insulator bushings under a three-phase copper busbar run.
NuclearPPAsInterconnect queueArbitrage
Energy & Power | Knowledge Base | MenFem