Need for speed: The regulatory detour slowing grid expansion

Need for speed: The regulatory detour slowing grid expansion

Few know that the United States’s victory in World War II rested, in no small part, on achieving “speed to power.” On Dec. 7, 1941, aircraft launched from carriers attacked the U.S. naval station at Pearl Harbor and decimated the Pacific Fleet. Franklin Roosevelt immediately formed a war cabinet that, recognizing naval and land warfare had changed, set an aggressive goal of producing 50,000 warplanes per year.  One potential barrier stood in the…