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To get the EV tax credit “on the hood” you sign away your right to claim the credit to the dealer. This means that if congress repeals the credit, it will screw over dealers. Who are overwhelmingly Republicans. So I don’t see how they will repeal retroactively. #EnergySky

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

#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

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Hey #EnergySky who is going to be at NARUC next week? Should we plan an informal get together Tuesday evening? @electronecon.bsky.social @oboylemm.bsky.social @cwayner.bsky.social @katiesiegner.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Hey look at that solar in MISO! It's the middle of winter and MISO is breaking solar records. Over 10GW in MISO, look at the steep adoption curve. Can't wait for what we see this summer. #EnergySky @gridstatus.io

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Jesus. Mark is on to something here.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

This is a nice refreshing take from a conservative organization, coming out strongly against the feds canceling Dominions OSW project. That would just saddle Virginia ratepayers with $6B for a half-built wind farm that would not generate any MWh. #EnergySky www.baconsrebellion.com/trumps-inter...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Thank goodness someone is working on this #EnergySky

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

This 100% sucks that a well known climate scientist is going to buy a gas furnace because the economics of electrification suck so awfully in California. We need to fix this soon.

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

#EnergySky Michael Webber speaks some truth to anti clean energy power. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/o...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Super important set of findings from @tnorris.bsky.social and friends. If new loads can flex just a little, we can integrate them today. In the race for AI, speed matters. Data centers will likely take this trade if it means getting online faster.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

If you use tools and data from NREL, I recommend you download them now.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Hey - @iso-ne.com is here on BlueSky and look at that grid right now! almost 25% BTM solar, 30% nuclear, and 8% wind - that's roughly 2/3 clean energy! Prices are...zero!

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

So glad I watched Babylon Berlin so now how know how it feels to be in the midst of it all.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

@chrislhayes.bsky.social and @volts.wtf did a podcast on the attention economy that blew my mind. Highly recommend. Chris is so damn smart. www.volts.wtf/p/chris-haye...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Hey ISO-NE, MISO, SPP and PJM! The Gauntlet has been thrown. Come on in, the water is nice and blue. #EnergySky

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Thank goodness for the rain in CA!

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

#EnergySky - Over the past decade, ERCOT has managed to both GROW its electricity generation by 36% and CLEAN it up, nearly doubling its share of carbon free energy from 23% to 42%! This is the way - load growth and clean growth. If Texas can do it, so can the rest of the US.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Hey #EnergySky what’s going on in #CAISO this morning? Prices are close to $1000/MWh. Huge separation from DA by the RT market. Did something trip?

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

#EnergySky #ERCOT looking good this morning thanks to 3.3 GW of storage dispatching before solar came ramping up, also - 20% of energy from Wind doesn't hurt! Prices below $60/MWh. Nice work Texas - Batteries save consumers $$ and keep the lights on even when it is COLD. @gridstatus.io

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

#EnergySky Anybody know for sure if the LG batteries at Moss Landing are the same as the LG batteries that were recalled in Chevy Bolts? I have a hunch they are.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

#EnergySky I'm looking for experts that can talk intelligently about battery chemistry and the fires at Moss Landing to reporters, and/or who can provide good technical background on the fires and risks for other BESS systems around the country.

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

Sitting here watching the Chris Wright nomination hearings and getting ever more frustrated by the failure - intentional by him and some Senators, inadvertent by others - to differentiate between produced and useful energy. Thread:

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments