takes me back to being freshly out of undergrad, what great times those were on the job market 😍

You and the guy she told you not to worry about

you would need sustained astronomically high capacity prices to lower total bills by 20% with ~24 GW (after ELCC adjustment) of DR between the two largest markets given everything that goes into a bill upstream, all-in prices in past years are useful to get a handle on wholesale costs 🔌💡

Not only is this foreign aid stay an assault on the separation of powers and rule of law, it’s also an assault on Congress as an institution. If Congress can’t tell the executive to spend money, what can it *actually* do?

isn't the three shots thing linked directly back to the first UK doctor who became the face of vaccine skepticism because he wanted to sell his own individual shots instead of the combo? this remains the stupidest timeline

one of these is not like the others 3/4 saw in theater, which was nice

Movie’s great. I think it’s my favorite PTA in how watchable it is. Cool to see it with a super engaged crowd too, the people who come out to the first showing of a specific film version haha

Damn, AFI theater is hopping tonight for One Battle After Another in 70mm

SPP's ITP ERCOT's RTP MISO's MTEP PJM's RTEP all worth tracking a bit if you want to understand what is actually getting planned for the (intermediate) future in terms of grid infrastructure 🔌💡 big demand and big geographies

super good SPP presentation from the other day on their integrated transmission plan, load growth, and the push for a 765kV backbone 🔌💡 spp.org/documents/74...

the amount of demand interconnecting into your local utility from a large campus is not CEII, it's just an abuse of that categorization for business reasons 🔌💡

Meta moving into energy trading with "Atem" 🙄 🔌💡 elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/fil...

didn't realize the NIN Tron soundtrack was coming out already 😍

Microsoft wrote a blog post about a new (or perhaps fully operational?) datacenter of theirs in Wisconsin today curiosity got the better of me and I bought the most recent high quality satellite image I could find (from March) 🔌💡 /1 blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09...

Whoa, kind of mind-blowing. The rocks above the end-Cretaceous mass extinction look different than the ones below it because of the ways that dinosaurs modified the environment. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

transit-oriented development and CAISO-independence in the same legislative session??? what even is this California BPA choosing M+ must have been a painful wakeup call legiscan.com/CA/text/AB82... 🔌💡

when we moved to the DMV a ~decade ago Metro was literally on fire since then the silver line finished, 7000 series cars came in, carpeted cars retired, service hours expanded, ATC back recently, tons of capital improvements, tap-to-pay just feels awesome to use a system that’s actually improving

now it's, "Europe has free speech issues" and "well, all the college shakedowns and pressure? Republicans learned that from Democrats"

Headline is stronger than the conclusion This isn’t Trump 1, “serious” industry people don’t get to play the “difficult balancing act” card, and this veers into reputation washing by the end. He willfully signed onto a well-articulated plan of nihilism and misery heatmap.news/politics/chr...

pondering the logic here about a conspiracy enacted to affect nowhere-close-to-President Trump 20+ years later, and then also realizing that the press secretary would have been like 5 or 6 years old at the time

nice! I was wondering if these were coming since I keep seeing "coming soon" trailers at the AFI for new Kurosawa 4K releases

One of the simplest reasons I can’t fathom ever returning to Twitter (although I had decamped prior to this) The guy in charge, with his thumbs clearly and obviously on the algorithmic scales, gleefully condemned millions of the most vulnerable people in the world to death

ERCOT load-watchers will know that many days this summer have had a strikingly flat peak load curve, driven by curtailment to avoid 4CP intervals. Less clear was just how much of the resulting forecast gap could be driven by extremely flexible crypto demand. It turns out the answer is a lot 🔌💡

It’s a world I enjoy, but electricity being key to the current tech boom means that suddenly people in general want to know more, but it’s a lot On one side you have fairly transparent but immensely complicated markets, and on the other opaque, vertically-integrated utilities (sometimes kinda both)

It’s really amazing how the richest and most powerful people in the world are also the most obsequious and pathetic Also a great way to see that they clearly do not give a shit about the charities they use to wash their image, dismantling USAID kills way more people than Gates’ mosquito nets save

Jaws is the best evidence you could ask for to say that Steven Spielberg is a genius (saw the 50th anniversary 4K in a theater tonight)

Hello, Democratic leadership, Vance’s public social media interactions and feed have enough meat on the bone for years of hearings, whether it’s international laws/treaties, the constitution, amplifying Nazis, and monarchists, he’s got it all

many things atm make you go “come the fuck on”, but this is up there If we manages to change hands in a few years, everyone involved, straight to jail Every utterly fake, states rights, constitution-waving republican needs to be held to account, from Vance’s techno-bros to your local dealership

Siemens is now actively marketing a related solution 🔌💡 neat stuff www.ercot.com/files/docs/2...

New blog! This time on Thunderstorm Alerts in NYISO 🔌💡 TSAs are called when enough lightning strikes the Hudson Valley area in a short amount of time. This triggers line limits on the 345kV system flowing into NYC, to avoid conditions 1977 blackout conditions blog.gridstatus.io/breaking-dow... /1

interesting to read the transcripts of ops around and leading up to blackout (all ellipsis seem to be cursing lol)

good god Mark Warner is pathetic, we moved from Virginia this summer, but as a former constituent he had been unbelievably disappointing in his kowtowing to the administration (we had to move because the people Warner enabled illegally fired my wife)

the first of 7 incidents in this bit of grid history from 1977 🔌💡

kinda funny seeing gas-only utility folks (often in areas that produce no gas) accept batteries as something they may want, but then refer to them only as a way to store extra gas gen, and at the same time attack renewables for not having the dispatchability of gas

an early job was working concessions at Cougars games, all respect to regionally-specific minor league baseball promos

come the fuck on

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

gonna be a long time before I get over the ginning up of a new category of secure data to pull public information back behind the curtain again probably dumb to have believed it was gonna stick around after they removed substations a few years ago 🔌💡 more federal data needs centralized repos

as a non-technical co-founder I appreciate that tonight I was able to raise my "merged a PR without taking the site down" rate from 0% to 50% 🏅 (I am the reason controls were first put in place on the repo before we had employees)

if I had had to guess the last update to WAPA's load forecast assumptions, I would have at least said the 2010s although this line: "System load forecasts also may be adjusted as necessary to correct for changes in expected loads." might be doing some heavier work these days 🔌💡

people are bad at comparisons, so you'll hear pro-coal pushback on lithium production, but in 2024, 170 coal plants in the US alone burned more tons of coal than *global* lithium production lithium would need to grow at 20% a year, every year, for 57 years to exceed global annual coal extraction 🔌💡

looks like ERCOT's been setting a new 4CP peak interval for August most of the afternoon 🔌💡

New blog! 🔌💡 Wildfire impacts are now a regular, if unwelcome guest during Northeastern summers, with smoke affecting both solar output and load patterns in New York and New England. blog.gridstatus.io/canadian-wil...

Erin’s radius of maximum wind (RMW) is only about 9km this morning. That is exceptionally small and characteristic of high-end rapid intensification in pretty much any basin. At this rate, category 5 intensity is likely by later this morning or early afternoon.

These went 0 to 100 instantly

Great run+goal to see in person

some cool prototypes happening 👀

Leaked treasury guidance on "commence construction" is out www.latitudemedia.com/news/leaked-...

Treasury guidance will require significant physical construction work for wind and solar projects to qualify as having "started construction". No more safe harbor by spending 5% of project costs. Abandoning many years of precedent: aboutblaw.com/bjeL