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Illinois lawmakers are pushing for more grid-enhancing tech, gigawatts of new energy storage, and the creation of a virtual-power-plant program. Reporting by Kari Lydersen:

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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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Surplus interconnection + large load flexibility are two promising near-term ways to mitigate gas overbuild, writes UPenn Kleinman Center's @johnhquigley.bsky.social 🔌💡 kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/commentary/b...

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The richest/saddest man in the world is emailing air traffic controllers that don't work for him, on Saturday night, to demand they say how many planes they landed last week, or else they get fired? Do I have that right? Loser stuff

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The breadth of destruction in one short month is staggering: www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

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Shutting down already installed infrastructure isn't "efficiency," it's sabotage electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

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Organizing in districts hit hard by DOGE slash and burn tactics (and Republican Congress’ failure to defend their constitutional power over spending) seems like a smart approach: www.huffpost.com/entry/georgi...

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Great paper... for BPS, surplus interconnection reduces the study burden on operators by allowing new resources to connect without full interconnection studies = fewer upgrades and simpler reliability checks are needed + helping clear backlogged interconnection queues faster. 🔌💡

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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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#EnergySky friends, we are releasing a set of papers today outlining how #SurplusInterconnection can unlock GW of new resources. Surplus is a way to plug wind and solar into existing thermal plants. Check out our papers, along with a cool interactive dashboard, here: www.scarcitytosurplus.com

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Trump orders federal agencies to grant reckless, sweeping amnesty for corporate lawbreakers of federal health, safety, environmental, civil rights & labor laws • orders termination of valid & ongoing law enforcement when inconsistent with "Administration policy" www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 1/

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Fixing load interconnection is an increasingly important issue. Some thoughts from @allisonclements.bsky.social and Peter Freed: www.utilitydive.com/news/data-ce...

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This agency is the place that stops hackers from shutting down the power grid

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PA is suing to stop the unlawful restriction of IRA funds for programs like Solar For All:

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This new EO is a doozy, clearly written to test the constitutionality of independent agencies at the SCt. It purports to effectively bring all independent agencies - including the Fed Election Cmsn and the Fed (in part) under presidential control. Irreconcilable w/existing law full stop. /1

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Tired: Asking the Supreme Court to overrule Humphrey's Executor Wired: Deeming the Supreme Court irrelevant and simply ignoring Humphrey's Executor (and plenty of other things)

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Many saw the extension of OIRA review to independent regulatory agencies coming, but this EO does so much more... 🧵 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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New Trump order on staff cuts adds questions on @ferc.gov independence, from @georgeweykamp.bsky.social and @mmweber.bsky.social: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...

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In a world where flexibility of IBL is ↑ valuable, with exponential demand + time taken to integrate supply to BSP. Policies + regulations need to change to allow flexibility where appropriate, where it suits the need + economics, to balance reliability and resource adequacy, if needed.

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Does the Trump Administration understand that the government provides essential services, like maintaining the reliability of the power grid, that will be at risk by the indiscriminate and fanatical war on public servants from Musk and his lackeys? www.newsdata.com/clearing_up/...

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Co-location of large load and generation is on the agenda at next week’s @ferc.gov meeting: www.ferc.gov/media/sunshi... 🔌💡

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Starting to hear about mass firings of "probationary" employees at agencies. What's that? Employees have to work for 1yr before civil service protections kick in. If they don't perform, they can be fired. But these aren't at-will employees and it's not clear firings are following the law.

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This slide from NextEra is the roadmap for how we move forward during this administration that is open hostile to clean energy. It's about speed and savings. Clean energy is the only thing that is ready to deploy now, and is low cost. #EnergySky

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Glad to see PJM and FERC adopt our recommendations. Devil will be in details of implementation, but an important step forward. Kudos to colleagues @gabetabak.bsky.social and Melissa Alfano at SEIA, as well as the team at Gabel Associates. Our report: acore.org/resources/re...

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People want to do business with trustworthy counterparties that honor their contracts. Trump’s “freeze” is inviting a raft of contract lawsuits, and permanently damaging the credibility of the US government in the process. Hamilton would be rolling in his grave.

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Last night, PJM released preliminary values for its 2025 load forecast, which once again represent a significant increase from the previous year. These findings will be presented at the Load Analysis Subcommittee next Monday and published in final form early next year. short 🧵 #energysky

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The Trump Administration is still violating court orders to unfreeze obligated grant funds

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FERC issues its order accepting PJM's Reliability Resource Initiative (RRI) proposal, allowing up to 50 additional projects to join an existing interconnection cluster. #fercafterdark elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/fil...

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FERC approved PJM's "surplus interconnection" proposal, which will help new energy storage, wind and solar resources share interconnection capacity with existing power plants that aren't fully using it. A significant step forward! elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/fil...

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1/ 🚨New study alert!🚨 🔌💡 My DukeU colleagues and I just released a 1st-of-kind study on how the US grid could integrate up to 100 gigawatts of data centers w/out major new infrastructure, provided modest load flexibility (0.5%/yr). AI load growth can be managed faster, cheaper, & cleaner. 🧵👇

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DOE's general counsel and IT offices told DOE Sec. Chris Wright that giving DOGE rep Luke Farritor IT access was a "bad idea" bc he hadn’t had a standard background investigation needed to access the department’s system, per a source. Wright granted him access anyways. www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/c...

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