jakemcdermott.bsky.social
Western Electricity Markets guy | he/him | views/opinions are only mine, not my employer’s | Bay State to Bay Area
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If I didn’t know any better I’d think it was SNL. The caricatures are no longer caricatures - it’s just who they are.
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That’s true of many compliance frameworks. Turns out having money usually means the rules are optional. Doesn’t seem like a good argument for not having any framework.
Next up: abolish the IRS because the wealthy just cheat the system and they treat tax law as entirely optional.
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I think the status quo is that traffic law is already optional for wealthy people.
Whether you automatically get a ticket for running a red/speeding or run the risk of getting pulled over doesn’t matter. I don’t see how a camera changes a wealthy person’s underlying decision making here
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where they are (WEIM), tack on a day ahead market to their WEIM participation (WEIM+EDAM), or move to SPP’s markets+ & WEIS offering.
Seems hard if the status quo for many is that they’re already embedded in a market to begin with.
The next several months will be interesting to say the least .
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This is helpful thanks. I read that Borenstein paper years ago but prob worth a re-read.
One of the challenging things I’ve been seeing from my vantage point is that many of the PNW pous already participate in the larger WEIM, so they’re already in a market. The question then becomes, do they stay
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the different public power agencies in the PNW regarding which market to join, if any at all?
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I don’t disagree with the premise of this thread, but good to also note that BPA is planning to join 1 of 2 regional power markets in the WECC, but that its choice of which market to join has been criticized for its cost implications and concerns around climate/emissions. How would you advise 1/2
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My sense is that so much of that righteousness is born from this very self centered view that they know Everything and if you disagree you must know Nothing - hard to have thoughtful conversations when the underlying view is so dogmatically held
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Interesting, I was under the impression grid forming wasn’t much more $ relative to non grid forming. Any idea on how to think of the cost premium or what the scale of cost differential is?
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Tash sultana, used to watch her busk in Melbourne and saw her first US show at red room cafe 939 in Boston
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Monica Isham is the 1st woman & 1st minority to serve as a circuit court judge in Sawyer County.
In an email to all Wisconsin state judges she said: “If there is no support for us, l will refuse to hold court. If this costs me my job or gets me arrested, then at least I know I did the right thing.”
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Everyone’s talking about balcony solar but we’re all sleeping on yard solar
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It’s surprisingly difficult! I did a hike with a colleague and my partner recently and used the word without thinking - no surprise it led to more confusion lol
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You can look even more recent than 2014!
We had seen counterintuitive emissions outcomes from some BTM systems in SGIP. Thankfully the grid scale stuff is operating more for arbitrage rn, but when those early systems operated primarily for AS revenues we were concerned abt the GHGs too (~2021)
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Have yall watched the ultimatum? The straights were really not ok in that one. The queer ultimatum season is much better.
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It reminds me of how overused “unprecedented” was post COVID
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Yep. More nuance less tribalism plz and thank you.
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Dawg I didn’t mention Bernie bros nor am I “attacking the left” but it’s telling that that’s what you equate it to.
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Who? Which liberals??
2 weeks ago I was accused of being an insufferable privileged leftist so you’ll have to pardon me that I don’t have much patience for what reads like someone just making up a person to be mad at and then pointing wildly around lol
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Not at all accurate but please go ahead and make up complete fabrications about a stranger on the internet.
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FWIW I think they are in agreement with you - just based off of their comments in another thread above
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If they didn’t listen on the front end of an election I don’t see why we have to keep coddling their feelings on the back end. Maybe it won’t change electoral outcomes but it’s not like the scolding is going to get them to be any less helpful in protecting democracy.
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Ehhh if you look at the language of the questions, there’s notable difference IMO between how they ask abt Trump/Healey approval, and then pipelines.
I bet we could run the same survey and rewrite that question neutrally/new framing and get different results.
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There’s some good content in appendix F here:
lumenenergystrategy.com/energystorag...
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I think you and a few others did the best you could to turn the wheel and shift course. No shame, just more work to be done
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This is all pretty deranged to say to a stranger for my otherwise tongue in cheek comment about very common online behavior. Hope you have a good rest of the day. Cheers.
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For all of the industry kvetching, real ones could see where the Commission was headed in the vote on NEM2. Totally agree that the transition could have been managed much better, too bad that some folks ignored the tea leaves and buried their heads in the sand instead
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What does a cost-reflective rate schedule look like for these customers? How do we ensure consumer protections are built into rate tariffs for any new *distribution infrastructure* that would serve data centers? I see a lot of ppl focusing on the energy needed for data centers, not much on DX needs
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Undergrounding of power lines is a big one. Lot of safety work that is now prioritized post camp fire. All of that work to make the physical infra safer, more resilient etc - none of that work or those costs are actually connected to what someone’s usage is at the end of the line
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I think there’s another piece here too: what costs are rolled up into your bill?
we are paying for more and more items thru a usage based charge, even for work that doesn’t depend on usage. there’s a strong equity basis to decouple those costs from the bill and pay for them thru income taxes
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Siri, please play “Ohio is for lovers”
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I saw that maybe a month ago or whatever and was surprised at the amount of otherwise decent folks that were on board with it. Weird Twitter/linkedin-think fluencer culture feels so shallow to me
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“I think I’ve made a huge mistake”