This recommendation of my @nytimes.com op-ed means a lot coming from Truman Semans, a respected leader in global climate finance & corporate sustainability on @dukeenvironment.bsky.social's board:

Grid utilization appears increasingly likely to emerge as a defining theme in US electricity regulation & policy going forward 🔌💡

Notable op-ed today by @allisonclements.bsky.social @mfarmer.bsky.social & Sam Walsh: "bottom line is that enabling load flexibility is critical to achieving speed-to-power for large customers while keeping the grid reliable and affordable for the rest of us." 🔌💡 www.utilitydive.com/news/data-ce...

Great piece from @tnorris.bsky.social Tyler Norris in the NYT earlier this week, ICYMI. Gift link below. "A Simple Fix to America’s Soaring Electricity Prices" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

DOE's ANOPR could change the way large energy users connect to the grid. This Policy Brief, by Roselle, @allisonclements.bsky.social and Nicholas Institute, unpacks a promising principle in the ANOPR: interconnection for flexible loads should be expedited. nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/publications...

🚨 NEW REPORT: A major FERC rulemaking on large load interconnection is likely imminent, and anyone who wants to understand its potential should read @nichinstitute.bsky.social new brief by @mfarmer.bsky.social @allisonclements.bsky.social @azevin.bsky.social @smaczni.bsky.social et al. 🔌💡

Interesting about the 22 hours/year. This aligns with the energy storage VPP programs around the nation. The batteries are expected to be used a handful of times for a few hours each time during complex grid moments. Our power grids are build to sustain these peaks, but now we have tools.

We've been doing power generation and distribution using combustion and a brute force approach which is incredibly wasteful in many ways. The good news is we have a lot of ways to move beyond this approach now, that benefits us all in many ways. Progress.

#2 piece @nytopinion.nytimes.com right now! 🔌💡

Check out this excellent article by @tnorris.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o... #energysky 🔌💡

I love that demand flexibility has gotten to the mainstream point of being featured in the NY Times. Kudos to Tyler for his persistent and very clear push for this smart solution to manage demand growth. 🔌 💡

Well said, Tyler.

🎁 Gift link: Insightful op-ed on electricity prices by @tnorris.bsky.social Why the rise? ⬆️ natural gas prices ⬆️ costs to modernize the grid and rebuild after hurricanes, wildfires "Ask the largest power users to draw a little less from the grid during the limited hours when it’s most strained."

"if big new power users [data centers] curbed demand just 0.25 percent of the time — about 22 hours a year — the United States could accommodate more data centers without burdening household electricity users." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o... @tnorris.bsky.social

I have a @nytimes.com op-ed today on managing power demand growth. Central point: load growth is an opportunity to *offset* upward rate pressure (and avoid gas overbuild), if we plan the system to make fuller use of infrastructure we’ve already paid for. 🔌💡 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

Congrats to Ph.D. student Tyler Norris, @tnorris.bsky.social, who was named to the 2025 TIME100 Climate list. His research on electric power systems is helping the tech and energy industries find ways to meet rising electricity demand using the existing grid. time.com/collections/...

The DOE proposed a new rule that could transform how large loads like data centers connect to the grid. @allisonclements.bsky.social, former FERC Commissioner, @tnorris.bsky.social + Shayle Kann unpack what this could mean in a world of AI-driven energy demand www.latitudemedia.com/news/catalys...

Stay tuned for new @catalyst-pod.bsky.social episode w/ @allisonclements.bsky.social and myself on DOE's new proposed rule to FERC, releasing tomorrow AM! 🔌💡

This is a very big deal! 🔌💡

Late night filing from Chris Wright that could greatly expand federal authority over interconnection -- and fast track the process for flexible large loads. By me for @latitudemedia.bsky.social ⤵️ www.latitudemedia.com/news/wright-... #energysky

One of the first US data center BESS deals to accelerate speed to power was just announced - quite significant. 🔌💡 www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/alig...

21 US House Reps press PJM for interconnection reforms, including connect & manage: 🔌💡 www.utilitydive.com/news/house-b...

“It is one of the few tools that can be deployed at scale over the next few years to eliminate rate increases across the country,” said @jigarshahdc.bsky.social 🔌💡 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NextEra SVP Petter Skantze says battery storage is now “the cheapest form of new capacity” in the US w/ “order of magnitude” faster deployment than gas w/ more modularity & flexible siting to enable higher system utilization & large load integration — #GridFWD in Monterey, CA 🔌💡

Looking forward to delivering this talk to my provincial utility commission this week on flexible electricity demand! Lots of @tnorris.bsky.social @severinborenstein.bsky.social @jigarshahdc.bsky.social inspiration and references throughout!

New from @severinborenstein.bsky.social: "The key to making new data center demand a benefit to other customers is to create incentives for these new loads to restrain their peak demand and to avoid discount pricing so the new loads significantly contribute to covering system fixed costs." 🔌💡

Sad news for a lot of families in the Carolinas www.wral.com/story/regula...

Really excellent piece on data center load growth, the obligation to serve, and ideas about where we go from here.

Only in @heatmap.news can you get @zeitlin.bsky.social explaining why electricity markets as they exist may no longer be fit for purpose, and how we can look to industries that regulate scarce resources, like water, for reforms. heatmap.news/energy/elect...

Why the data center boom might call into questions over 100 years of electricity market regulations heatmap.news/energy/elect...

“I think no matter what, we’re going to see some non-firm options” - @robgramlichdc.bsky.social in @zeitlin.bsky.social latest @heatmap.news 🔌💡 heatmap.news/energy/elect...

The money -- and the potential bill savings!-- is in the wires! Just like @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social and I discussed on Shift Key here heatmap.news/podcast/shif...

Interesting exchange between @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and @stephenlacey.bsky.social on latest Open Circuit episode w/ @charlesxhua.bsky.social 🔌💡 www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...

Today our transmission grid capacity is only used about 55% of the time. Our distribution grid, less than 30% of the time. But for 50-100 hours a year everything could be used close to 100% of their capacity — so we overinvest in those hours. @tnorris.bsky.social

Happy to be speaking on the main stage at Climate Week NYC at the Javits Center next week - join us! We’d, Sept. 24, 5:15 PM. 🔌💡 www.thenestclimatecampus.com/register?utm...

New @apnews.com: "US grids under pressure from data centers are changing strategy" 🔌💡 apnews.com/article/big-...

Must-listen new @catalyst-pod.bsky.social interview w/ @brianjanous.bsky.social. "I don't think there's a credible argument for behind the meter nuclear at data centers in the near future, and by near future, I mean the next couple of decades." 🔌💡 www.latitudemedia.com/news/catalys...

MLK Jr. on violence:

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence. Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets. Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe. It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

Pretty excited to do this live podcast with Verrus CEO Nelson Abramson at RE+ tomorrow - join us! 🔌💡

Governors of PA, NJ, MD, and IL call on PJM to streamline energy resource interconnection service (ERIS) and connect-and-manage options to accelerate generator interconnection (source: comments on PJM CFIP large loads proposal, pg 37 www.pjm.com/-/media/DotC... )

Coverage of PJM’s non-firm service proposal for large loads has missed the mark, casting stakeholder pushback as “opposition” to demand response, when the primary objections are to PJM’s mandatory approach. I count at least 17 stakeholders expressing interest in modernized demand response.

Congrats to @aoc.bsky.social's team on getting this passed! #energysky #greensky 🔌💡 ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/press-...

It's been 7 months since @tnorris.bsky.social's report on flexible data centers dropped, making a major splash in the energy and AI worlds. But how far have we really come on flexibility? On Friday I'm sitting down for a live interview with Tyler to take stock: www.latitudemedia.com/events/the-r...

Hosted by @latitudemedia.bsky.social this Friday 1pm ET: #energysky #greensky 🔌💡 www.latitudemedia.com/events/the-r...

@tnorris.bsky.social on why narratives about data center power demand are making it appear more constant & closer to full capacity than it actually is. Getting this right is key to heading off overbuild of generation and grid infrastructure. Big implications for climate, electricity rates and more.

In a new interview, Iron Mountain Data Centers says it’s deploying battery storage at 100% nameplate capacity of its New Jersey data center “so we can totally shed the load of the data center.” “We’re going to see a lot more of this.” #greensky #energysky 🔌💡 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

Three new pieces on data center flex: 1️⃣ @jeffstjohn.bsky.social on Google’s deals www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti... 2️⃣ Shayle Kann w/ Varun Sivaram on mechanics of DC flex www.latitudemedia.com/news/catalys... 3️⃣ Reg dimensions in George Wash. Law Review insideclimatenews.org/news/2808202...

Offshore wind has higher capacity value than gas CTs, according to PJM. So when the Trump admin claims offshore wind makes no contribution to resource adequacy/reliability, it's lying. #energysky #greensky www.pjm.com/-/media/DotC...