wilson-energy.bsky.social
Clean Energy Research Expert 🔌💡
Works at https://gridstrategiesllc.com/
Lives in Lexington, KY
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilsonjd/
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Model load building rates are temporary, but many become industrial subsidies. Don't agree that NEM is more than superficially similar, it's the other side of the coin.
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Classic load building rate design. Just like "economic development" or retention rates.
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Those are a good start, but not nearly enough. Heat pump push was a noble effort and I agree that it itself wasn't a mistake. But the shortage of HV equipment is very large and needs more action than has been taken.
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Oops ... link to the substack:
www.greentape.pub/p/how-biden-...
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In Unlocking America's Energy, Grid Strategies and Brattle Group recommended a collaborative procurement program. A utility-led nonprofit would procure HV equipment far in advance - so new plants would be built - with federal loans to finance orders. 2/2
blog.advancedenergyunited.org/reports/unlo...
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Just followed you there. Could be the paywall on the article.
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I remember the good old days when these were redacted.
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Yes 🤒
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Same reaction!
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Argh, paywall, but yes sounds bad. There's a power plant in a Canadian jurisdiction that got excepted from regulation. So capital upgrades are not reviewed and just get passed through at cost years and years after the plant was built. Just terrible for customers.
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Love this report, but will quibble with the idea that 100 GW of data centers can be added "without major new infrastructure." Agree that you've laid out a road map to LESS major new infrastructure, but we've got to build new transmission and generation if this is going to happen!!
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Dug up your self-portrait from high school debate team I see
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Uh, I found the news coverage where these pictures came from and no mention of him being a Trump voter. I'm sure that happens but ...
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So the plan is to bury offshore wind projects in bureaucrats ... that Musk has pledged to get rid of ... have I got that right?
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Serious question - why are so many ultra-rich people triggered by windmills but not, say, large smokestacks? Has anyone figured out the psychology of this? It seems to go beyond own-the-libs, somewhere ... deep for those with wealth/power.
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So I've definitely had bots in my timeline. I'm blocking and reporting accounts that hit me with multiple likes on random posts, with a profile that is vague
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I highly recommend those who have reviewed our report closely also dig into NERC's report. It provides context in the areas of generation and reliability forecasting - topics we did not attempt to cover in our report. 3/3+1 💡🔌
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NERC's numbers are a bit lower, roughly 95 GW over the next 5 years -- because NERC doesn't include most of the updates included in our report. Even so, NERC's peak forecast is higher than ours, because it includes much of Canada and some of Mexico, so the numbers aren't directly comparable. 3/3
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One thing I immediately looked at was how NERC is assessing load forecasts for North America. Grid Strategies LLC's report, Strategic Industries Surging: Driving US Power Demand, estimated that utilities' load forecasts total 128 GW of growth over the next 5 years. 2/3
www.nerc.com/news/Pages/U...
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Yes, mostly professional content but not all button-down. Although my oddball snark comment on Outlook bugs is a medium-high performing post for whatever reason.
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@elephanteating.bsky.social Starter packs PLUS bots ... a LOT of my new "followers" are fake accounts. Sad but true. Still more meaningful engagement here than on the dead bird. But even more engagement on LinkedIn
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@tnorris.bsky.social please find something else inspiring
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Terrible that @theguardian.com reports this as if there might be meaning to this. Even they can't seem to report on Trump's sycophants correctly.
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If the claim is that clean energy advocates haven't tried bipartisan strategy, this is just uninformed. Full stop.
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Yeah, I've been surprised at how few people have picked up on that ERCOT growth number. ERCOT is really struggling to figure out what number to use ... happy to discuss that point offline. #EnergySky
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Not the same Elon Musk. Or a brain wipe. Or just consumed with fascist fantasies for a bit ...
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Isn't your producer named Mabel?
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So basically, geothermal is a much safer form of nuclear energy? #EnergySky
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This sounds really cool. One "cost" I hope you'll document is post-install service. In my experience, installers often have to deal with warranty-related issues and I understand from them that sometimes they are not compensated - expected to build in an allowance for that in their pricing.
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Oops ... Congrats to the team at @ethree.bsky.social for this excellent report!
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E3's new report lays out the complexity of the interaction between resource planning and customer rates.
In my work at the state regulatory level, there is no "silver bullet." The issues in this blandly-titled report should give every regulatory expert pause as our work grows more challenging. 3/3
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In the process of compiling our report, Strategic Industries Surging: Driving US Power Demand (gridstrategiesllc.com/reports/),
people were looking for the "silver bullet" that would allow data centers to come online with no cost to other ratepayers and (hopefully) meeting carbon reduction goals.
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Wow, I have not seen this elsewhere in the country. XAI moving forward on a major data center project *prior* to contacting the local utility about connecting. The quote shared by @sas-cleanenergy.bsky.social (behind paywall) is from MLGW. See this story:
www.fox13memphis.com/news/more-te...