With the Senate confirmation of Jennifer Granholm as the new secretary of energy, President Biden’s top energy and environment advisers are now in place. Predictably, much attention is being paid to how his team will replace the previous administration’s energy independence and security agenda with a different model, one that appears to equate energy and infrastructure development solely with the negative effects of climate change and demands a transition to less reliable forms of energy production.

The lessons of the winter storm in Texas and the blackouts in California last summer will, I hope, serve as a cautionary tale as energy policies of the future are formed and implemented. Sadly, recent actions suggest lessons of the past will not have much influence within the Biden White House.