Transformer shortage is bottlenecking electric grid expansion because only a few companies make transformers and only one company makes the electric steel needed for them, and a mission-mode RFC would proactively push these companies to expand, fund startups if they refuse, or establish state-owned corporations.

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right now a big bottleneck to expanding electric grids is a transformer shortage because we only have a few companies that make transformers and we only have one company that makes electric steel [59:44]

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Three Visions of Where Democrats Went Wrong | The Ezra Klein ShowThe Ezra Klein Show
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:54:06 AM

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