manufacturing

7 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jan 9, 2025 by Pierre Lafarge · across every show →

Everything said about manufacturing, oldest first

Jan 9, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lafarge: Data centers and manufacturers will pay for grid infrastructure upgrades
“Yes, I think that high load customers like manufacturing and data center operators can and will be a really big part of this moment in grid history. They will pay in Much of the incremental cost because of how they value time to power and total availability of…”
Pierre Lafarge Jan 9, 2025 ▶ 25:03 Making DERs work for load growth
Jan 9, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Lafarge: Doubling grid capacity is the baseline, not a high-end scenario
“Even if you haircut the forecast growth in data centers and manufacturing by 80 or 90%, you still double the grid. And something I think we need to say more as an industry is doubling the grid is not the high-end reference case here. It's not the sort of what …”
Pierre Lafarge Jan 9, 2025 ▶ 8:53 Making DERs work for load growth
Jan 9, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Lafarge: EVs fell to third-biggest grid driver in just 24 months
“24 months ago, electric vehicles were the biggest driver of electrification growth, and now it's a distant third, and that happened stunningly quickly.”
Pierre Lafarge Jan 9, 2025 ▶ 6:16 Making DERs work for load growth
Mar 20, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Lubbershane: Construction labor productivity has declined over the past decade
“In the sectors that we care about the most when it comes to decarbonization, and really anything having to do with energy, which are, you know, basically manufacturing and construction, labor productivity is, has been flat really for the past 10 to 15 years, a…”
Andy Lubershane Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 7:25 The coming robotics wave
May 1, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Schroepfer: EVs and manufacturing drive US power demand alongside data centers
“Overhyped in the sense that people over attribute data center load growth with electricity demand inside the United States. You know, manufacturing and EVs are a huge portion of that. So people think it's all data centers. It's not.”
Mike Schroepfer May 1, 2025 ▶ 18:50 Catalyst Live at SF Climate Week
Jul 3, 2025 negative
Opinion
Data center developers are crowding out sites for new U.S. manufacturing electrification
“I can tell you for certain that it is getting harder and harder to find a site to put any of that stuff because there are data center developers hunting around the entire country trying to find anywhere where that is possible. So it's making it, and that's dif…”
Shayle Kann Jul 3, 2025 ▶ 18:13 Fresh intel from state utility regulatory filings
Apr 30, 2026
Insight
Hershman: Solar installation is closer to manufacturing than traditional construction
“I think we look at our business much more akin to manufacturing than we look at it as construction, right? You think about, we are, we're trying to do this, a, the same activity a million times, and how do we do that just Slightly more efficient.”
George Hershman Apr 30, 2026 ▶ 16:09 How AI is modernizing EPCs
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