Exactly what Julie said.

Yes.

Okay.

Fantastic.

Well, if you don't know anything about Batch Zero, you will learn all about it in the cover story.

So Batch Zero is not new this month.

Batch Zero has been going on for the last... 10 months, maybe a little bit less than that.

Why is now the best time for this article to come? Why do people need to be paying attention to it now?

What are some trends or things that you wanted to talk about that you're seeing?

Yeah.

Well, first thing I'll say is that.

You know, I've been covering energy for over five years now.

And I don't know if I just know more about energy now.

And so I know about more or all of the things that are happening more so than I did earlier in my career.

But 2026 has been a big year for energy.

So can you tell us a little bit about that? I know you have a cover story coming out that focuses on that.

I think permitting will be a big one and we have to ensure that it's robust enough to protect Texas, Houston, and the communities, but also allows businesses to flourish and establish.

Yeah.

I mean, it sounds like there's a lot of stuff going on with this batch zero stuff for big new power and data centers and those interconnections of, you know, trying to make some of those interconnection decisions happen.

As groups, as thinking about not just approving this one facility, but these other four facilities in the area that are all applying for interconnection requests or permits.

Talk to me a little bit about how...

the state government's trying to get ahead of some of that massive growth.

set up to do

that right now.