Late July in the northern tip of Michigan, the sun-fed harvest from these trees helps make this the self-declared cherry capital of the world. But before the fruit can be processed down these lines, it needs to be kept cold — very cold — requiring a lot of electricity. Some created at this on-site solar farm, much more coming down these transmission lines.

Having reliable power is vital for the crop, and it's what keeps Rachel Johnson, a member relations manager at the aptly-named Cherryland Electric Cooperative, awake at night.

Scott: Talk to me about supply and demand these days.

Rachel Johnson: The way I like to explain to our members is to think of the energy grid as a bathtub, and essentially we're filling that bathtub with a low-flow faucet, and at the same time, we've pulled the drain on the bottom. So we are putting resources into the tub at a slower rate than we're draining resources out of the tub, and then to make matters worse, the tub is getting bigger because we're electrifying everything. So things like electric vehicles and just our increasingly electric-dependent lives are increasing the demand for electricity, and we are just not putting new power supply on the grid at the rate at which we're taking it off the grid.