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Dr. Mark McNees studies the economics of who pays when growth creates new costs, with a focus on AI data center energy demand, utility rate structures, and the state laws now reshaping who funds the grid.
Topics
How the cost of new grid infrastructure gets allocated when large new loads connect to shared systems.
How rate design decides who funds the grid, and how those costs shift onto existing ratepayers.
The cost-causation principle behind SB 484 and the state laws now following it.
The broader pattern of internalizing profit while pushing cost onto the public, with energy as the current proof point.
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Booking
Available for keynotes, panels, and policy convenings.
Booking inquiries: mmcnees@fsu.edu
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