Building efficiency through partnerships

Now, in your opinion, what do you think is driving that increased demand for domestically manufactured electric grid infrastructure? Why do we want to keep it here? What are you sort of seeing in that regard?

Yeah, well, I'll back up half a step and say, you know, there's an old joke in our industry that if Thomas Edison woke up today and looked up at the electrical power system, it'd be no different than it was when he was alive over 100 years ago.

And there's a lot of truth to that.

So there's a lot of grid, electric grid infrastructure modernization happening.

And as we know in our lifestyle, we are so dependent on electrical and electronic devices and things like that.

But the U.S.-based manufacturing specifically, to answer your question, gives our utility partners greater supply chain confidence.

Even though it's a global economy today, but there's also a lot of geopolitical things happening, let's just say.

I don't need to go into detail on some of those.

But that also, that supply chain confidence, U.S.-based supply chain confidence, offers consistent quality products.

As I mentioned several times over, our engineering and technical support makes us closer to our customers, really understanding what their true needs are.

And the resiliency within the grid is top priority at this point, and that's what we strive to support with our U.S.-based manufacturing.

Yeah, I know that's an issue for a lot of people.

And I think that's a little peace of mind is having that home base here, especially if you're in New England.

So I know that's important.