I particularly like these excerpts, because they provide an honest assessment of the challenges and need for action, now:

And the only way we’ll get there — and stave-off the catastrophic effects of climate change — is by investing in not simply clean sources of electricity, but the robust market-intelligence platforms that can instantly tell us where and when to build them, how best to optimize the technology mix, how best to manage the grid under increasing strain due to extreme weather — and, ultimately, how to most efficiently reach the clean-energy future we must achieve now.

Where a multi-year planning and procurement timeline once matched the pace of the underlying technologies, long gone is the era of ponderous development cycles, and, with rare exception, decades-long mega-projects. In our digital, software-driven, interconnected age, we have ever-faster changes in technologies, rapid shifts in market prices, evolving politics and policies, and societal attitudes and national conversations shifting at the speed of a time-lapse.