Higher education is often in a state of flux. Each year, teachers pour over their classroom materials reflecting on what transpired last year, spending countless hours considering the value and merit of the textbooks they used, the presentations they shared with their students, and the assessments they utilized to measure the students’ absorption of their teachings. Administrators, too, are accustomed to change as teaching policies, strategies and resources persist in a constant state of flux....

The year 2024 will go down as the pivot when the growth in U.S. electricity demand reverted to normal. After a two-decade interregnum of no growth, many forecasters, including those in the electric utility industries, thought that was the new normal. Planning for a static future is quite different from meeting the needs of robust growth. Now we find myriad power-demanding hot spots around the country, from Georgia and Virginia to Texas and California and...