constraints; technological innovation; and enabling market mechanisms—the United States can make marked progress toward a more orderly energy transition. Equally important, it would do so by following a path that creates new economic opportunities for individuals, communities, and companies, and sets the tone on a global scale.
Achieving that goal will not be easy, but now more than ever is the time to carefully plan for our energy future and resolve the constraints preventing it from being realized. If carefully planned and executed—with attention to socioeconomic impacts and affordability concerns; supply chain, transmission, and land
Gracie Brown is an associate partner in McKinsey’s San Francisco office; Blake Houghton is a partner in the Dallas office, and Jesse Noffsinger is a partner in the Seattle office; Hamid Samandari and Humayun Tai are senior partners in the New York office. The authors wish to thank Roman Belotserkovskiy, Nikhil Patel, Suzane de Sá, Pascal Smulders, and Lindsey Waller for their contributions to this article.
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