Shayna Fritz, executive director of the Ohio Conservative Energy Forum, argues that the state's electric grid is under increasing pressure due to severe weather and extreme wind conditions that have left hundreds of thousands of Ohioans without electricity, disrupting businesses, schools, and businesses. These conditions have led to long delays in service and lost valuable time and revenue. The author argues that Ohio's electricity demand is growing at a rapid rate due to new data centers, advanced manufacturing, and a modern economy that increasingly relies on reliable, always-on power. Despite this, utilities have been praised for their efforts to restore service quickly and safely. Fritz urges policymakers to prioritise targeted investments to strengthen the grid against extreme weather, including deploying advanced technologies that can pinpoint outages in real time, strengthening infrastructure to better withstand extreme weather and expanding tools that give consumers more control over energy use.