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Utilities are, by and large, not economically rational actors. In addition to extreme bias in the C-suite towards old tech, they are highly constrained in decision making by public utility commissions, and decision making is often based on information that is 5-10 years old. It takes papers like this getting published, then publicized enough so that they PUC can't ignore it, before info can enter an IRP that plays out over 5-10 years.