As @open-circuit.bsky.social pointed out last week, batteries are capable of performing the job of a transmission upgrade. Absent market signals, this is happening (as Jupiter Power's Trimount battery outside Boston shows), but market reform is urgently needed.

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How do we get data centers to play well with the grid? My advice is to look to Ireland. As a literal islanded grid, it has led the way on advanced grid tech for years. And data center share of electricity is about 20% currently and forecast by Eirgrid to exceed 30% by 2030.

Data centers can play nice with the grid if they come with battery storage. Tesla has done a good job highlighting this in their Megapack materials. What will it take for this to be more widely known?

Not sure who needs to hear this - but get an electrician to inspect your home wiring even if you are just using a level 1 charger in a normal 120V outlet

Check out that drop in evening gas generation! Storage (+ solar) is crushing the evening peak in California. 🔌💡

The employees of Bluesky could fit around a conference table… keep up the good work, and I hope some reinforcements are coming 🫡

Kudos to the Element Energy team for bringing this very real second life battery project online! I have some questions about scaling this, including...

Thanks @tnorris.bsky.social for helping me and so many others get up to speed on the Bluesky energy community! Great to see the growing crowd.

Hearing some utilities are planning some combined cycle plants... looking at you, Entergy. Here's a question: how many hours of energy storage duration can you get today at $1,600/kW?

First post... what are we doing here? Writing blueskys? Do we rhyme that with brewskies?