Full Title: GREASE Lightning: A Playbook for Investment-Led, State-Driven Electro-Industrial Economies
Author(s): Lachlan Carey, Jon Ekberg, Ben Feshbach, and Allie Jobe
Publisher(s): Rocky Mountain Institute
Publication Date: December 8, 2025
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Description (excerpt):
Global demand for clean technologies, data centers, and advanced manufacturing is surging, and the United States is entering an “electro-industrial” era where energy, manufacturing, and computing power are one growth engine. A recent wave of federal industrial policy has unlocked record construction of factories, grids, and supply chains, but the gains are uneven and increasingly exposed to changing policy priorities.