You'd be hard pressed to find too many facts in a study like this. These are largely conjecture with a list of assumptions and simplifications longer than the study itself. NREL is particularly famous for these. The reality is there are as many people who think the grid should be split into more pieces as there are people who think it should be unified.

But it's a fair point regarding the political influence in these type things, though it's not just the current administration. In a couple of months we will all be changing the verbiage of our proposals from resiliency, security back to renewable integration to satisfy our funding overlords.

Pratically Chinese in having a political officer embedded in the conference who reports violation of political correctness to senior political appointees who can then have it shut down.

I've flagged the article for such a reason.

Everyone's apolitical until the lights go out.