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Energy Secretary Announces $2 Billion For Improving Electric Grid With Smart Technology

The U.S. Department of Energy has committed $2 billion for smart technology improvements to the nation's electric grid, aiming to address concerns about artificial intelligence power usage, blackouts, and higher utility bills heading into the colder seasons.

During a press conference on Sept. 24, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the investment would affect around 100 million Americans. Nationally, the spending would be distributed across 31 projects in 26 states and is expected to produce more than 23 gigawatts of electricity annually, enough to power about 16 million homes.

"This is a quick way to lower electricity prices and increase reliability: using fibers that are already in the transmission lines to analyze what's the temperature out, what's the wind out, how can we use this transmission line to distribute more power, but safely and only in the right conditions," Wright said, speaking at a PPL Corp. facility in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

As Jeremy Lott reports further for The Epoch Times, PPL owns one of those projects at the local level. It's a $71.5 million effort to modernize an existing high-voltage transmission line across roughly 30 miles in northern Pennsylvania.

The state has a few data centers now online and a half-dozen more under construction, with grid improvements that could help facilitate them.

Future data center construction in the state has been slowed by an executive order issued by Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro in August, which affects the construction of all data centers that will use 25 megawatts or more, or enough energy to power about 18,000 homes.

Shapiro said the order was about "implementing the strictest standards in the nation for AI data centers - because I will not allow Pennsylvanians to be bullied by greedy developers and bulldozed by the lawyers working for these big tech companies."

Manufacturing Grid Components

AI has been in the spotlight in much of the recent electricity news, from the latest grid upgrades to a recent executive order by President Donald Trump.

The "bulk-power system" executive order, issued in late August, aimed to ensure that key components of the grid are not manufactured in nations under arms embargoes or other U.S. sanctions, particularly China, but are instead manufactured domestically whenever possible.

The text of the order said that the new restrictions were necessary because AI and AI-related production, including defense technology, has increased America's "dependence on abundant, reliable electricity."

Smart technology improvements to the grid can help reduce electricity waste and thereby free up more supply, but those improvements also increase vulnerability to hackers.

America's energy needs have heightened the consequences of a "successful attack or supply disruption on the bulk-power system," the order warned.

The concern is that components manufactured in regimes hostile to certain U.S. interests might contain "backdoors" or other features that make it easier to sabotage the grid, the order stated.

Ryan Norris, a senior fellow for energy policy at the Abundance Institute, said the threat is real.

"The administration is right to recognize that America's bulk-power system is both critical infrastructure and a potential national-security vulnerability," he told The Epoch Times.

"Our goal should not simply be to restrict potentially vulnerable foreign equipment, but to make the United States the best place in the world to design and build transformers, turbines, batteries, inverters, control systems, and other critical energy infrastructure," he said.

Norris also called for wider measures, more electricity generation and capacity, and allowing more power from industrial concerns themselves, including "islanded microgrids, and 'bring your own power' arrangements that protect critical facilities while reducing pressure on the broader grid."

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Border Czar Says Illegal Immigrant In Austin Was Shot While Fleeing From Agents

Authored by Jacki Thrapp and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times,

White House border czar Tom Homan said in an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times that a Venezuelan illegal immigrant attempted to evade arrest before he was shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Austin, Texas, on Sept. 20.

"We were trying to arrest him in deportment," Homan told The Epoch Times senior editor Jan Jekielek in an "American Thought Leaders" interview airing on Sept. 26.

"He fled. We had lights and sirens. ... And, you know, he was shot."

 

Wilber Rafael Garcés Perez, who had a final order from a judge to be deported, was taken to a hospital in stable condition after the shooting.

Perez's attorney, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, said that he was making a DoorDash delivery when ICE officers in an unmarked truck sideswiped his car twice. She said that after he was hospitalized, he was released into ICE custody with a bullet still lodged in his back.

Days after Perez's arrest, his deportation was temporarily blocked by a federal judge as the court considers his attorney's request for emergency relief in a hearing set for Sept. 30.

Homan also denounced Democratic Party lawmakers who have criticized the work of ICE agents and called to abolish the agency.

In response to the Perez shooting, Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) commented on social media and accused ICE officers of "terrorizing our country," demanded an independent investigation into the shooting, and asked for "immediate release of the body camera footage, and accountability for any ICE officer who broke the law."

Homan, who ran ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations from 2013 under Obama and was acting ICE director in Trump's first term, said the hostility toward the agency from elected officials needs to stop.

"I blame a lot of this on the hateful rhetoric being pushed by not only mayors and governors but members of Congress, and you know, and I'll keep calling that out," Homan added.

Homan suggested that more incidents involving ICE agents will likely happen if this continues.

The Epoch Times contacted House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries for comment.

"It's unfortunate," Homan said. "I don't want to see anybody hurt. I don't want to see the officers hurt. I don't want to see the alien targets hurt. I just want to enforce the law. But until this hateful rhetoric stops, it isn't over when it comes to violence."

Tyler Durden Fri, 09/25/2026 - 19:15

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