Location as Advantage, and the Pause
When power followed land, sites were chosen on land, fiber and taxes. Power no longer follows on a reliable schedule, and the most valuable feature of a site is now a dated, credible path to energization. Constraints tend to arrive in stages: an operator's warning, a regulator's conditions, sometimes a local or statewide pause. Faraday's read is that the jurisdictions that keep their advantage will be the ones that make their constraints legible, publishing transmission dates, settling tariffs and giving communities a real voice before a moratorium becomes the only tool left. Reading a jurisdiction means reading all of those signals together, with dates attached, rather than trusting any single one of them.
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Why can a time-limited moratorium sometimes leave a jurisdiction more attractive to developers once it ends?
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Most moratoria are framed as pauses to allow a study or the drafting of new rules. If the pause ends with clear, published standards, developers gain predictability about what they must do to be approved, even if the requirements are stricter than before.