Profile avatar
zhangstaz.bsky.social
Working on building electrification, energy efficiency, and climate at the Public Advocates Office in the California Public Utilities Commission. Opinions are my own.
241 posts 131 followers 101 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 18 Comments 32

Whenever I read “Postcapitalism” by Paul Mason, it’s just so prescient.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Paul Mason still being absurdly relevant.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

what makes this even cooler is that Meta will let ads through for effectively anything

submitted 42 days ago • 5 comments

Seems good.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

It is absolutely insane that the existential threat of AMOC collapse has this headline.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

"Policymakers need to decide when to let the rising seas or expanding deserts take over land where people used to be and build new, affordable housing for those people in safer areas." - @markgongloff.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 83 days ago • 96 comments

the two things I believe most strongly in this world are that public services should be wholly replaced by the private sector and that the government should intervene instantly the second I personally feel a little bit scared

submitted 83 days ago • 196 comments

Unlike households?????

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Public Advocates Office analysis shows that rates crisis has gotten worse again in Q3 2024. Another 85k people in arrears since May and average amount owed increased by $74. Shits real bad. www.publicadvocates.cpuc.ca.gov/-/media/cal-...

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

Energysky, need some help w/ this one. How is a plant going online in 2028 increase EPS starting this year? Is MSFT prepaying for some of the energy? Is it because they are ratebasing the nuke restart CAPEX? Vaporware claims? Like this makes 0 sense to me.

submitted 118 days ago • 1 comment

Guys, when I said this, I didn't mean it literally..... www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

In moments like this, it is important to remind ourselves what the fundamental purpose of having a financial sector is: to coordinate resources between sectors of the economy to create greater prosperity. Many finance corpos have completely lost the plot.

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

Depressing: Fossil fuel emissions projected to be almost 8% higher in 2024 than in 2015, the year the Paris climate agreement was signed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 132 days ago • 39 comments

Asking the energy folk out there...Does anybody know a good source for tracking the volume of corporate+energy aggregator PPA volumes in the US? Seems difficult to find a single source that has consistent updates.

submitted 136 days ago • 0 comments

For utilities regulation, it is that a lot of information depends on the assumption of good faith acting on the part of utilities. Utility regulators do not have complete info and often rely on the utilities’ representations of reality.

submitted 137 days ago • 0 comments

As Kevin Anderson said it best: Methane is a transition fuel to 4C of warming.

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

Cryptobros are now conveniently forgetting their argument that bitcoin=inflation hedge. Either inflation is predicted to be sky high under Trump or bitcoin isn’t an inflation hedge. Can’t have it both ways.

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments

If US federal leadership is unable to lead on climate/reproductive rights/equity/etc, then California must, and will, do it.

submitted 147 days ago • 1 comment