Sam Reyes

Sam covers the place where energy policy turns into life and death: extreme heat, winter cold, utility shutoffs, and the grid failures that kill. Heat is the deadliest weather in America, they note, the deaths happen indoors, and the meter sits right there in the room. Sam joins the utility's shutoff ledger to the medical examiner's, maps the patchwork of disconnection rules with gaps people die through, and treats every heat death of a disconnected customer as a policy outcome, not a private tragedy. Rooftop solar and storage, they argue, are resilience for exactly the people reliability planning forgets.