President George H. W. Bush signs a bill into law that encouraged energy efficiency and opened up the wholesale electricity market to competition by allowing non-utility generators to enter the market.

Governor Pete Wilson championed the bill that restructured California's electricity market; leading to deregulation, allowing customers to choose their electricity provider and creating a competitive market.

Enron became a major player in the newly deregulated markets and contributed evolutionary strategies for trading electricity. Unfortunately, Enron was convicted of over $74 billion in fraud which led to its collapse in 2001; providing a quintessential case study for updating regulatory oversight in a deregulated energy future.

President George W. Bush signed the act into law that aimed to address energy production in the United States, including incentives for renewable energy production and the modernization of the electricity grid.

President George W. Bush signs The Energy Independence & Security Act of 2007 into law that focused on increasing the production of clean renewable fuels, improving energy efficiency, and expanding the research and development of greenhouse gas capture and storage options.

President Barack Obama signed The American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 that provided significant funding for renewable energy projects and infrastructure improvements aimed at modernizing the grid and increasing energy efficiency.

Google made its first direct investment in utility-scale renewable energy generation, providing $38.8M to two North Dakota wind farm projects. The wind farms made use of cutting edge turbine technologies, pioneering the use of smart blade control systems that enable the use of blades that are 15% larger than on standard turbines in 2010.

FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) established the requirements for transmission planning for all of FERC’s jurisdictional entities. The stated purpose was to increase regional transmission development by eliminating long-standing monopolies and create competition and incentives for innovative, cost-effective projects.

The Clean Power Plan was an Obama administration policy aimed at combating anthropogenic climate change (global warming) that was first proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in June 2014. The final version of the plan was unveiled by President Barack Obama on August 3, 2015.

Tesla pioneered advancements in solar energy, energy storage (Powerwall), and electric vehicles (EVs), contributing to the broader adoption of renewable energy. The Tesla Powerwall is a rechargeable lithium-ion battery stationary home energy storage product manufactured by Tesla Energy.

Senate Bill (SB) 100 established a landmark policy requiring renewable energy and zero-carbon resources supply 100 percent of electric retail sales to end-use customers by 2045. California became a leader in EV adoption; greatly influencing other states.

On July 18, 2019, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (Climate Act) was signed into law. New York State's Climate Act requires New York to reduce economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent by 2030 and no less than 85 percent by 2050 from 1990 levels.

In the Infrastructure & Jobs Act of 2021, President Joe Biden issued several executive orders aimed at tackling climate change, promoting renewable energy, and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Combined with the Build Back Better Act, President Biden made the largest per capita domestic investment in our country's history.

Texas begins to generate more renewable energy than its physical grid can accept. By the end of 2022, Texas was literally throwing away $7,000 in clean energy every 5 minutes!

Dr. Clark Alexander and Michael Logic™ Davis invent patent pending systems and methods of sustainable energy capture and distribution giving birth to Enerjuice™; innovative Chicago-based renewable energy company.

A group of scientists and workforce development experts form Open Plugory Network (OPN); a non-profit focused on providing data sets, researched OEM standards and workforce training for Decentralized Energy (DE). OPN President Michael Logic™ Davis motivates an Illinois congressional delegation lead by Congresswoman Robin Kelly, Senator Dick Durbin, Senator Tammy Duckworth and Director of Chicago Southland Economic Development Committee Reggie Greenwood. This CODEL advocates for a $100 million charter to support the research and development of DE systems and methods that provide a much needed approach to an alternative to distributing power via America's aging power grid.