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Executive Summary

Reliable, affordable, and resilient energy is essential to the region's long-term economic competitiveness. As electricity demand accelerates, the ability to plan, permit, finance, and deliver energy infrastructure has become a defining factor in where businesses invest, expand, and create jobs. Meeting this challenge will require more than additional generation. It demands stronger regional coordination, faster infrastructure deployment, strategic investment in workforce and innovation, and greater collaboration among the public sector, utilities, and the business community. By strengthening these underlying business conditions, the region can ensure its energy system enables continued economic growth rather than becoming a constraint on it.