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

Noah Parsons

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Abstract: 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

Keywords: grid modernization; energy security; renewable integration; cybersecurity; transmission infrastructure; industrial competitiveness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F52 H54 L33 L51 L94 O33 O38 Q41 Q48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-10-19
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