Manufactured Savings: How Ember Turns Assumptions into Energy Policy
Watts Up With That? [Unofficial]
April 11, 2026
Because once speculative outputs are presented as concrete savings, they begin to shape policy decisions, investment flows, and public expectations. And when those decisions are made on the basis of partial accounting and optimistic assumptions, the costs—unlike the modeled savings—have a way of becoming very real.
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