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Are you an electrical engineer? Have recent changes in U.S. federal policy impacted your work ? This seasoned science journalist would like to hear your experience. Please message me via this platform, or Call / Signal / SMS via +12505146248 Shares of this post greatly appreciated.

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We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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Oh wow. FERC Chair responds on behalf of FERC to the 'what 5 things did you do last week' memo:

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Pleased to share FERC comments filed by 9 states (CT, DE, ME, MA, MD, NJ, NY, RI, and VT) noting the importance of interregional transmission & identifying "low regrets" interregional transmission needs! Summary of NERC, DOE & other studies in the Appendix! 💡🔌 energyinstitute.jhu.edu/wp-content/u...

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Can't get enough of Burtynsky.

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RTOs: Tariffs should not apply to electricity. Import laws have treated power as an “intangible” not subject to tariffs. Nonetheless, FERC’s retroactive rate rules could mean RTOs are responsible for the bills accrued and could force a bankruptcy filing. notification.iso-ne.com/l/405752/202...

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Connecting infrastructure to the grid has been a passion since I worked on FERC's original Order 2003. Surplus interconnection is fast and provides states a tool to accelerate policy achievement even in the face of long queues. Great to work with ‪@mfarmer.bsky.social & the GridLab team!

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Win for Covington. Giant BIg Law as the victim. Indefensible move against them.

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I missed this excellent article yesterday with the CEO of Power Forward Communities, the wild-eyed radical former CEO of Fannie Mae: www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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This report on utility ROEs is great. I'm no fan of investor owned utilities but this comparison is unfair.

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The richest man in the world has parasitically imposed himself on the federal government to insist that all employees generate content for his language-processing machine, conscripted the administrative state as monkeys at typewriters, all under penalty of dismissal should they refuse.

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Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

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With "surplus interconnection", energy resources can move through the process hook up to the system in months rather than the typical 5+ years. @energyabe.bsky.social and I have a new report with GridLab on how to advance its use: surplusinterconnection.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/2025-02-21_G...

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Controversies about data center energy use are increasingly a proxy for what you think about Big Tech and AI. Yesterday, FERC correctly rejected -on procedural grounds-Exelon's proposal to modify PJM's rules to require colocated data centers to pay transmission charges. Comm'r Phillips said this:

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Larry Diamond is arguably the world’s foremost expert on democracy and one of the most well-respected members of the Stanford faculty. Larry is not prone to hysterics; here he brings a sober (and damning) analysis of the state of American democracy. www.persuasion.community/p/the-crisis...

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Chair Christie is taking a very limited view of the effects of this EO. Consultation is already common practice on major issues. He says that EO would only align FERC-DOJ legal opinions on major SCOTUS-level cases, and wouldn't prevent Commissioners from dissenting on major orders.

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In 2024 alone, ratepayers gave nearly $172 million to the coal plants’ Ohio-based owners – American Electric Power, Duke Energy, and AES Ohio. That’s the highest annual sum on record and a significant increase from 2023, according to new PUCO data.

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All hail the topological qubit! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/t...

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This is a great line by E&E reporter Joel Kirkland:

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No.

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www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/fin...

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FERC Chair: "We are trying to work through all these OPM emails and policies on personnel matters. My goal is to try to...come out with compliance with these requirements in a way that is practical and enables FERC to deliver its mission outcomes efficiently." www.eba-net.org/new-ferc-cha...

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I love it when lawyers have bars: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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