Matt, I hate to say this, guessing your own profession might be grid related, but the end of grids is on us, imho.
There are forces at work, big forces, including nature itself now leaning very heavily on the continuing business of supplying energy at profit, which we might see pretty much all business for profit is actually involved in.
Domestic and community solar now plays a much bigger part in the solution than is acknowledged by grids, we start to get an idea why when we consider the fraction of utilities energy business already lost to D&C solar, it's not small, between 30 and 50 percent in most developed countries, but utilities energy supply business dare not acknowledge this because it risks mass exodus of shareholders from utilities energy business.
Lack of such an honest declaration results in willful denial of truly sustainable, planet saving energy independence for all.
If you convert the money charged for utilities energy to energy at market rates, and compare with the energy supplied explicitly as electricity, more energy is paid in the form of money as bills than was supplied to the consumer.
This is the way it has to be, in the case of energy supply at profit.
So the net flow of energy is not from utilities energy supply to consumer, but the other way round, the net energy flow is from consumer to utilities energy supplier.
We have to conclude that the business of utilities energy supply does the opposite of what it claims, it isn't about supplying energy to the consumer at all, it's about hoovering energy from all consumers, who then have to turn to the planet to replenish what they lost.
Take all the energy of profit, add to the known energy loss in extraction and refinement of all energy resources including food, apply to the thermal mass of the planet, and look, it adds up to the temperature rise measured.
This is independent of greenhouse effects.