I am glad to speak with reporters, producers, and editors about electricity: what it costs, who pays for it, why the grid is straining under new demand from data centers, and what policy can and cannot fix. I can comment on deadline, on background, or on camera, and I am happy to explain technical material in plain language or point you to a colleague who knows a topic better than I do.

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• Data centers, AI, and electricity costs. How much load data centers add and what their flexibility is worth; interconnection and siting fights, and why PJM and ERCOT answer them differently; how new large-load costs get allocated among ratepayers, including in Baltimore; and how US and Chinese generation capacity shapes the technology race.
• Building the grid: supply chains and transmission. Transformers, switchgear, and UPS systems, import dependence and recent federal actions, and why equipment shortages may bind before generation does; multi-criteria transmission expansion, dynamic line ratings and other grid-enhancing technologies, PJM and Maryland proceedings, and offshore interregional networks.
• Markets, storage, and resource adequacy. Storage arbitrage and what operators can actually guarantee, capacity accreditation and market reform, market design under extreme events, hurricane-driven offshore wind outage risk in PJM reliability studies, and where machine learning helps planning and operations versus where its guarantees run out.
• Reliability, extreme weather, and cybersecurity. Heat waves, storms, and outages; who is most exposed and what security margins systems are planned around; attacks through EV charging and other grid-edge devices, cyber insurance, and lessons from incidents like the Colonial Pipeline hack.
• Energy transition and electrification. Hydrogen and electrolysis, nuclear flexibility, and industrial demand response; where EV charging gets built and who is left out; and how to read corporate clean energy commitments, from hourly versus annual matching to the transmission limits on matching policies.

If your story sits next to one of these rather than squarely on it, feel free to write. Time provided, I would rather help you find the right expert than have you guess.

Broadcast and video

• CNA documentary, "China Now Generates 2X More Electricity Than USA: How Will This Alter The Tech Race?", 2026. Watch.
• "Enabling an AI World," main stage panel, ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit, 2025. Watch.
• "Climate Conversations: Powering AI," National Academy of Sciences podcast, 2025. Listen.
• NBC News, "Buying Renewable Energy From Your Neighbor," 2019. Watch.

Recent commentary

• CNBC, on China exposure in the supply chains behind US AI data centers, 2026. Read. Related coverage of the White House emergency declaration on foreign parts in the power grid on Fox Baltimore, 2026.
• Newsweek, on Texas's turn against data centers and the limits of policy mandates, 2026. Read.
• Newsweek, on how Virginia's largest proposed data center fell apart, 2026. Read.
• Newsweek, on data centers proposed above the largest underground water reservoir in the US, 2026. Read.
• Bloomberg, on free batteries and electric bills for New York City small businesses, 2026. Read.
• Politico Power Switch, on granularity in the data center clean energy debate, 2026. Read.
• Chicago Reader, an explainer on how data centers work as they spread across Illinois, 2026. Read.
• WVXU (NPR), on residents pushing back against data centers in Butler County, Ohio, 2025. Read.
• Technical.ly, on cooling costs in Northern Virginia's Data Center Alley, 2024. Read.

Earlier commentary on the grid, outages, and cybersecurity

• The New York Times, on home offices and summer stress on Con Edison's system, 2022. Read.
• The Wall Street Journal, on how the pandemic reshaped New York City's summer power use, 2020. Read.
• ABC News, on rising blackout risk during heat and COVID, 2020. Read.
• Utility Dive, on grid disruption risk after the Colonial Pipeline hack, 2021. Read. Also on FOX Business.
• Utility Dive, on our finding that a coordinated hack of EV chargers could black out Manhattan, 2019. Read.
• Gothamist, on the closure of Indian Point and what replaced it, 2021. Read.
• Mashable, on the first large US offshore wind farm, 2021. Read.
• IEEE Spectrum, on a risk dashboard for managing renewables, 2020. Read.

Op-eds

• "How to Prevent a Power Outage From Becoming a Crisis: Protecting the Electricity Vulnerable Should Be the First Priority," IEEE Spectrum, 2021. Read.
• "Executive Order Shines a Light on Cyberattack Threat to the Power Grid," IEEE Spectrum, 2020. Read.

• "Data Center Flexibility and Grid Infrastructure Needs in PJM," Johns Hopkins ROSEI, 2026. PDF.
• "The Next Data Center Bottleneck Is Grid-Supporting Equipment," Johns Hopkins ROSEI, 2026. PDF.
• "Energy Resilience and Efficiency in Maryland," prepared for the working group of the Maryland Department of the Environment, 2024. Documents.
• Testimony before the New York City Council on Con Edison's summer preparations and the city's cooling needs, 2020. PDF.

Peer-reviewed work and pre-prints behind this commentary are listed on Google Scholar.