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Treat electricity capacity as national infrastructure by building transmission, interconnection, clean firm power, storage, demand flexibility, and large-load cost rules together.
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The specific delta between this position and the current mainstream approaches of both major parties.
Democrats generally lead with climate investment, clean-energy deployment, environmental justice, and resilience. That frame is right about emissions and public investment, but it can understate permitting, interconnection, reliability, and the speed at which load growth is returning. Republicans generally lead with energy abundance, permitting, domestic production, and lower costs. That frame is right that scarcity is damaging, but it often treats fossil expansion as if it resolves the climate and local-pollution math.
The Innovation Party's delta is capacity plus accountability. Build faster, plan regionally, connect projects sooner, and use every low-emission capacity tool that works. At the same time, make emissions accounting honest, make large loads pay their way, and keep pollution compliance enforceable. This is not a compromise between climate politics and energy politics. It is the claim that neither side's favorite metric is enough by itself.
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