Fred Stafford (@fredstaffordcs) published Part 2 of a two-part essay at The…

Brief

Fred Stafford released Part 2 of his two-part Breakthrough Journal essay on 2026-08-07, advancing the claim that public trust in federal transmission depends on anchoring projects to public resources with tangible benefits, using the Pacific Intertie as a model. Part 2 converts that template into a concrete policy program and is summarized in a linked thread.

Why it matters

Fred Stafford (@fredstaffordcs) published Part 2 of a two-part essay at The Breakthrough Institute on 2026-08-07, reiterating Part 1’s claim that federal transmission earns public trust only when anchored to a public resource with tangible public benefit and pointing to the Pacific Intertie as the historical model.

Key details

Part 2 applies that template to today by offering a concrete policy program for transmission expansion and is presented alongside a new explanatory thread (🧵) tied to the essay titled “Abundance Transmission Without Stealth Deregulation, an Essay in 2 Parts.”

Part 2 is up at @TheBTI. Part 1 argued fed transmission earns public trust only when anchored to a public resource w/ tangible public benefit, & found the model in the Pacific Intertie. Here's how that template applies to today as a concrete policy program, in a new 🧵. 1/

Fred Stafford (@fredstaffordcs)

On Friday @TheBTI posted the first of my new two-part essay on public power and transmission expansion. Part 1 is critique and a highlight of what worked historically with public power. Part 2 puts it together into a proposal. Here’s a 🧵 for the first. 1/ breakthroughjournal.org/p/th…

Link

The Public Power Anchor

Abundance Transmission Without Stealth Deregulation, an Essay in 2 Parts
breakthroughjournal.org

— https://nitter.net/fredstaffordcs/status/2084282235356667985#m