#grid represent at #superbowl60 #halftime show

How can you keep power going in a blackout? Smelly, high-maintenance generators are out. Battery powered backups—which can keep fridges on for days—are in, writes columnist Nicole Nguyen. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4a9HRc4

Batteries are the bacon of the grid; they make everything better.

Story: www.wbur.org/news/2026/01...

So. No particular order… Tell me again we’re still the dependable nation. He’s proving Carney’s point from that speech in Davos Convenient the markets are closed, no? The President of the United States is a chaos agent. Republicans in Congress endorse this with their silence.

The winter storm is a chance for batteries to defend the power grid @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Somebody this stupid shouldn’t be president. Maybe some of those scientists that he fired or defunded can explain Arctic amplification to him.

Your regular reminder that Republicans in Congress approve of what the President is doing.

Sen. Hawley put more effort into blocking a power line than defending the Senate’s prerogatives on war powers. That isn’t likely to change.

Speaking of IEEPA tariffs, Bloomberg's ace SCOTUS reporter @gregstohr.bsky.social says we can all stand down for a while. "The court is preparing to begin a four-week recess, and under its usual procedures for releasing opinions, the next potential day for a tariff decision is Feb. 20."

New from the @nytimes.com Visual Investigations team: Detailed, second-by-second video analysis of all of the video footage of the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

I think there are basically 3 phases to the year: Now through March/April: Trump stimulus/OBBB vibes April through June: Fed transition Second half of the year: Taking the data at face value, preparing for a blue wave

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

The Shaheed return! Charbonnet touching the football! The fourth down stop! So many insane moments

Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social. The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 #AGU25 #climate

I asked ESPN Research and they asked Elias Sports Bureau and they looked back as far as they could (to 1978) and it would appear Jalen Hurts is the first player to ever commit two turnovers in one play. Isn't history beautiful?

As of 5pm today, batteries were the largest single source of power for the Californian grid www.caiso.com/todays-outlo...

The fight tonight was over about $25 billion. Thats about 2.5% of the Defense budget. Would cover a year of the enhanced ACA credits. Republicans said that’s unaffordable.

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

10am www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

change a word and update an album name The decision tree

Narrator: by worthless, he means extremely cheap.

Canceling transmission lines will raise electricity prices and raise emissions. Canceling transmission lines enhances corporate monopoly power and profit. Canceling transmission lines is climate denial.

Someone should tell Chris Wright about how we dealt with asbestos @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

A lot needs to happen right on #battery supply chain diversification for #energystorage wave to materialize 🔌💡

EPA To Drop 'E,' 'P' From Name theonion.com/epa-to-...

My fantastic four

You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature?

This is where I post from

Dear All Journalists, You don’t have to credit the line “Tariffs will hit American consumers” to “economists say”. Thanks

‘Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”…would kill federal support for solar and wind power, undoing President Biden’s historic climate law and punishing Americans with deadlier air, more lethal heat waves and higher electric bills.’ Via @sammyroth.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

NEW: At least one House Freedom Caucus member is looking for Trump to "deal with" IRA tax credits before they vote yes on the megabill thanks for putting up with and refining my attempts at politics reporting @jael.bsky.social

REPEAT Project just completed our rapid analysis of the impacts of the Senate-passed version of the One Big "Beautiful" Bill (OBBB), which the House is considering now, on the US energy sector and emissions. Still working up full report, but here is a sneak peak... 🔌💡 🧵

Narrative 1: China is dumping cheap solar panels onto the world by unfairly subsidizing its solar industry. Narrative 2: US, Russia, Saudi are dumping cheap oil and gas onto the world by unfairly subsidizing production and transport. Both can be defended with facts. Which one do you hear more?

Republicans finally found a way to bring down costs. All it took was magically declaring expensive things to be free. At least, that’s the lesson of OBBB, whose Senate passage today required reinventing the laws of accounting. A look at the big fat warning sign the GOP just gave to the bond market:

“This is the modern version of book burning.”

Sorry small correction - the solar/wind excise tax is out. No word yet on phase-outs of existing credits.

In Heatmap, @azevin.bsky.social & I explain how the web of "foreign entity" rules in the GOP budget bill is certain to backfire. It's an "impossible bind" where the U.S. companies working the *hardest* to onshore supply chains are penalized the *most*. Their tech will end up right back in China.

One vote tonight took 43 minutes — not a blistering pace. Looks like Rs may be slow-walking while they keep working on the bill.

The GOP Senate tax bill is wrecking ball for the power grid @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The bill the Senate is voting on right now would reduce US power generation through 2035 by 300GW, raise wholesale & retail power prices, increase household energy costs, reduce national GDP, & kill 100s of 1000s of jobs. I mean, this isn't "public grocery store" bad, but it's pretty bad!

I couldn't make it through this story yesterday, but everyone needs to read it.

“There isn’t going to be a gas fired generator any time soon,” Tillis said. “You can’t get that online and the same time that [renewable] pipeline’s going down.” First time GOP opposition over this made public in Senate debate on the reconciliation bill.

Seeing a lot of discussion about the birthright citizenship case: the very issue is upsetting, the consequences (even at this preliminary stage) could be dire. But I think the truly alarming case from Friday is Mahmoud v Taylor, the “LGBTQ opt-out” case. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

EXCLUSIVE @npr.org: The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.

Those market expectations are really frightening because they signal the kind of economic weakness that precisely cuts against new investment. To Sharon's point, I think that sets up future underinvestment-related supply shocks (big point in electricity discourse today re the new OBBB text)

No predictive model could foresee this degree of national self-sabotage – an act of willful decline that transcends political theory.

Murkowski votes aye!

JD Vance is likely going to have to break the tie on this procedural vote to advance Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act." That should tell you where the GOP is on this politically. To pass the only real legislation Trump has proposed, Vance needs to come the rescue. He can't do that in the House.

Every major health system in Louisiana is warning Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the state’s congressional delegation that the Senate GOP’s planned Medicaid cuts “would be historic in their devastation.”