Do you ever experience phantom smells? Because as I was browsing this year’s #CommonGroundCountryFair fair book, I swear I could smell lanolin and Sweet Annie. Giddy with anticipation. www.mofga.org/fairbook/

COR-EY COR-EY COR-EY!!!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

My YIMBY moment has come and I am Ready 👏 For 👏 It 👏 Came home to this little number tucked next to my mailbox. Already composing my comments. I have asks! Let’s see this as an opportunity to make the neighborhood better! Everyone deserves housing and we have to build more of it somewhere.

My kingdom for some clarity on whether the Canadian tariffs actually apply to electricity imports. I maintain that electrons are neither articles nor goods, but I only play a lawyer on TV.

Is this the future of the electric grid in North America? I sure hope not. That would be bad for everyone, especially homes and businesses in the US Northeast.

We need to salute courage wherever it appears. The official snow reporter at Vermont's Sugarbush, where JD Vance came on a skiing vacation this weekend, pointed out in her snow report this a.m. that the Trump team is ignoring climate change. Her report was pulled down kottke.org/25/03/jd-van...

God bless Canada 🇨🇦

Pine Tree Power, we hardly knew ye.

When you bought The Sims on Temu.

“Although I wandered for a while in the empty hallways of nostalgia searching for lost a time and a place that could never return, I had given up the futile search and chosen life. I had surrendered all false hopes and come to a new land seeking love and faith and sustenance.”

The number of times I’ve found myself saying “Vichy” and “appeasement” lately says a lot about our state of affairs.

Drool-worthy footage for grid nerds. Energy security is about building relationships with allies, not going it alone.

The wholesome content we all need right now.

Since it seems like our elected representatives are doing fuck all, let’s get loud. Show up to your state capitol on Wednesday and be more of a hero than they’ll ever be 🇺🇸

Consumers will be forced to pay more this year because gas is a global commodity that always goes through volatile price spikes. Fossil fuel costs drive recession + caused up to 40% of recent inflation. Renewables keep power prices low and protect consumers. www.utilitydive.com/news/wholesa...

The property insurance industry knows what’s up with climate change and socio economic risk. It’s just about math and science to them. So it’s interesting to see what they have to say www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/brea...

My timelines be like

Incredible and insightful research supporting a different mode of public engagement on climate change! Aligns closely with a project we’ve been developing. Climate change discourse needs to be participatory and integrated with daily life and communities.

The crisis isn't insurance, it's insurability. All efforts to reverse loss of insurance for extremely risky properties end up transferring the cost of prior inaction from asset owners to the public. This is not a sustainable response to escalating impacts. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Here is a nice mushroom

All yall on #energysky using the emojis 🔌💡, you're mostly iPhone users, right? Repost for yes, like for no.

Yes, but why, Simon? Tell us what’s happening in Android world.

Can we get a @dieworkwear.bsky.social hot take?

Best Advice of 2024 award goes to:

Anyone want to take the over/under on how long before an impending economic crisis triggered by failing insurers leads to a government (ie taxpayer) bailout? It’s not like that’s ever happened before…. amp.theguardian.com/environment/...

10/10, no notes.

Y’all. If your soul could use a soothing bit of beauty, I highly recommend the new Our Oceans docuseries on Netflix. Former U.S. President Barack Obama, telling you a cute little story about these little fish and their lives, alongside some truly breathtaking wildlife footage. A 🧵

I read this as Quilting Carbon and that is the crossover of my personal interests I didn’t know I needed. Plenty to get jazzed about with electrifying homes, though. I did a deep dive specifically on water heaters once and there are some interesting barriers.

Psst. Hey. Psst. If you know power flow models (especially if you know interconnection studies) and want to work on the front lines of the energy transition getting grid-scale batteries built with me, send me a message. Job posting coming soon. 🔌💡

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Wait, what? If I were a major shareholder I’d be suing the board over this. Allowing the entire Supercharger team to be eliminated is crazy talk - they have a huge advantage in a growing market with loads of govt investment! 🤯 EnergySky friends, care to speculate? 🔌⚡️

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Not me with an entire category in my resource tracking database tagged "transformers".

To be clear, I'm not saying we should be contracting OSW right now. We need a policy fix for interest rates on key infrastructure projects that goes beyond the DOE Loan Program

@jessejenkins.bsky.social I was listening to your pod about the IRA and renewable energy deployment and a thought occurred to me: are we in the process of baking more inflation into our future energy mix? Hear me out: interest rates are high, with the intention of bringing down inflation 1/n

For my first real post in this new blue place, it only feels fitting to share the first annual report published by Groundwire Strategies. We used a systems thinking approach to examine key trends that will influence renewable energy in 2024. Enjoy! www.groundwirestrategies.com/publications/

This episode has my brain firing on all cylinders today. It's challenging and provocative and I love that. @tadziomueller.bsky.social makes arguments about the guilt we feel about climate collapse that remind me of my all-time favorite TV series, #TheLeftovers. Guilty Remnant vibes.