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Portland, Oregon #NoKings

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New NERC 2025 State of Reliability report: "Improvements in frequency response are being observed in areas of the country that have high concentrations of battery energy storage systems (BESS) and incentives in place to encourage or require participation." 🔌💡 www.nerc.com/pa/RAPA/PA/P...

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I see we're already to the "physically assaulting and restraining elected officials for asking questions" stage of democratic collapse.

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The GOP's "Big Beautiful Bill" takes money from people who can't afford food and health care and gives it to those who can afford first class travel and second homes. And this analysis excludes impacts on energy costs, which will also go up and are highly regressive. See repeatproject.org/reports 🔌💡

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Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

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Video of Senator Padilla being thrown on the ground and cuffed outside Kristi Noem's press conference

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Folks, CBO estimate of the distributional effect of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is out: www.cbo.gov/system/files... It's grotesque

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Here, from @energyinnovation.org, is a detailed modeling breakdown of the extensive economic damage that the [cough] "Big Beautiful Bill" will do on every individual US state. (Remarkably, yes, it would hurt every single state.)

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Highly recommend this Construction Physics blog post on the viability of solar power as the backbone of an electricity system. Seriously, read it -- most people, even energy-literate people, have not kept up on this subject. Things have changed so fast, all your old cliches are outdated.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Maybe... But: 1) series of actions juicing demand for natural gas will raise fuel prices 2) new turbines are severely supply-constrained, limiting gas deployment potential 3) long-term, economic deployment of wind and solar likely drive gas combined cycle capacity factors below 40% anyway

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Too many in Washington seem resigned to China’s electro-dominance. It’s a terrible mistake. www.douglewin.com/p/energy-su...

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Great thread. Add on the fact that their evaluation of "cost savings" just straight ignores billions of dollars in annual health and climate damages that would come from repealing the rule.

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Sometimes the new coverage of wonky environmental regulatory stuff doesn't quite capture what's at stake. EPA argues that US power sector GHG emissions aren't "significant", and therefore they don't have to regulate them. Read the proposed rollback here: subscriber.politicopro.com/f/?id=000001...

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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is actually One Big Expensive Bill that, if passed as is, will do major damage to the U.S. economy, harm workers and families, and put the U.S. in the backseat when it comes to global competitiveness. The team at @energyinnovation.org modeled it, here's what we found:

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For @climateconnections.bsky.social today I went through 8 different reports on the impacts House Republicans' big budget bill's IRA repeal and summarized 10 different ways they found it would subvert Trump's promises and hurt Americans 🧵 (1/14)

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The advanced geothermal company Fervo says it drilled a 15,700 foot well and reached temperatures of 500°F (260°C) in just 16 days of drilling. That’s a big improvement from last year, when it drilled an 8000 ft well and reached 370°F temps in 41 days. www.linkedin.com/posts/timlat...

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Some great data in this @policyintegrity.bsky.social report. If the US power sector were a country, it would have been the 6th biggest emitter since 1990:

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EPA wants to end GHG emission limits on coal and gas power plants, arguing that U.S. power sector emissions are not a “significant contribution” to dangerous pollution. As we explain in a pair of issue briefs, this reasoning misunderstands the law, EPA's own practice, and basic reality. ⬇️

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Neighbor-Source Heat Pump xkcd.com/3099/

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Coal-fired power costs have skyrocketed 28% since 2021, faster than inflation, costing consumers billions. Trump wants to force old, dirty, expensive plants to stay open even when utilities say they’re not needed. It’s yet another Trump tax on Americans. www.forbes.com/sites/energy...

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I couldn't be more excited to be at NASUCA this week, presenting on a tool 5 years in the making: The Energy Poverty Policy Simulator (EPPS). deploy-preview-47--sharp-noyce-377408.netlify.app/energy-pover...

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I've spent some time recently with NERC's reliability assessments - it's interesting to look back over the last several years of reliability assessments and compare. There's a long-run trend of declining summer reliability risk nation-wide as regions have ramped up deployment. 🧵 #energysky

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The Trump admin is second-guessing grid operators and utilities by forcing plants to remain open, and consumers will pay the price. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/c...

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Decarb idea: "pipelines" full of HVDC wires so we can get some damn federal backstop authority. "What is this pipeline for?" ...Aluminum? Mostly?

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“Repealing [clean energy tax] credits could increase the average family’s energy bill by as much as $400 per year within a decade, according to several studies published this year.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/c...

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The House reconciliation bill pulls the rug out from under utilities, project developers, and market operators who have been planning to meet growing demand. That's a bad thing for grid reliability. #energysky www.realclearenergy.org/articles/202...

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🔌💡99% of the U.S. #coal fleet costs more to operate than replacing the aging power plants with new #wind or #solar farms. Our @michelle-solomon.bsky.social discusses our recent report, which finds that coal power is 28% more expensive in 2024 than in 2021. 👉 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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[NY Post Headline Font] Space-Ex!

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everything is securities fraud www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Don’t let the Trump-Musk bust up distract you from the real problems Tesla faces in China @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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The Trump-Johnson bill will spike energy costs, worsen the deficit, knee-cap our growing economy, sabotage smart climate solutions, and...oh BTW, jeopardize grid reliability. One Big Beautiful Bill? Try One Big Blackout Bill! Props to @brendan.bsky.social for his hot take: tinyurl.com/4h7e3xzr

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The GOP’s reconciliation bill throws fuel on the fire of rising electricity rates. Great reporting from @bradplumer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/c...

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