#EnergySky Weirdly good siting news coming out of Indiana: their energy secretary condemns local moratoria on wind and solar & says she's working on a map of local governments that have said they want to host energy/industry. Promising! indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/09/17/i...

The 2024 transmission build # is out from Grid Strategies and ACEG. Mileage is up, but it's nothing compared to the past. cleanenergygrid.org/wp-content/u... Yet transmission spending is up. Why? The answer is in my report from last year: rmi.org/insight/mind.... Time to close the gap! #EnergySky

First highway median solar project proposed in Massachusetts! 5 MW over 2 miles, but there are 400 total miles in MA alone viable for development. Let's make it happen! #EnergySky 🔌💡 lexobserver.org/2025/07/11/g...

why did NY close Indian Point then? 🤔 #EnergySky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This @shutterstock.com image is apparently real (located in Groom, TX) and I'm obsessed with it #energysky 🔌💡

The news last week out of Congress is substantial for renewable energy, but so is what's happening on the local level. According to @heatmap.news, 1 in 5 US counties now have restrictive wind and/or solar ordinances, a worrisome trend that keeps growing. #EnergySky 💡🔌 heatmap.news/politics/law...

#EnergySky researchers from @globalenergymon.bsky.social find that 300 GW of solar can be generated off of 312 surface coalmines around the world that have closed since 2020 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

whaddya know, common sense legislation actually works?! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/c...

Lazard says that solar is cheaper than gas to meet load growth due to AI #EnergySky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

@iea.org predicts that Chinese oil use will peak earlier than expected in 2027 and worldwide use peaks 2 years afterward #EnergySky subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

"The opposite trend of what we want to see for reliability and affordability," says Claire Wayner, regarding #monopoly utility focus on building small transmission lines for profit rather than larger lines to meet the needs of the future grid: vist.ly/3m24a2h 🔌💡 @cwayner.bsky.social

Listen to @johnffarrell.bsky.social and me chat about local transmission and the regulatory gap on the Local Energy Rules podcast! Thanks for having me on 😁 #energysky 💡🔌

I chose to join @rockymtninst.bsky.social because I believe that together, we can build a cleaner, healthier, more affordable energy future. Every $ helps, and right now, every donation is 2x thanks to a generous match. Please consider contributing to our spring appeal: give.rmi.org/give/286001/...

"For haddock, the turbines are more like a buffet." Yummy... www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

evidence of what the implications of a new presidency can have on financial markets www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

oystercatchers are such an awesome bird, this is really hopeful ❤️https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20032025/oystercatcher-recovery-campaign-shorebird-conservation-success/

Excellent @cwayner.bsky.social piece on FERC Order 1920 and interregional transmission planning: www.utilitydive.com/news/transmi...

It's local news success stories like this one that keep me going in the dearth of good federal headlines. Thanks @canarymedia.com for covering this heartening story www.canarymedia.com/articles/ele...

the irony here cannot be overstated www.bbc.com/news/article...

#EnergySky economic analysis shows that 99% of proposed onshore wind projects (on nameplate MW basis) in the US is in counties that went for Trump in 2024. Banning onshore wind could result in a loss of $14 billion of economic benefits and 50k jobs. www.renewableenergyworld.com/wind-power/g...

Excited to see coverage of @rockymtninst.bsky.social's new report "High Voltage, High Reward Transmission" alongside my report from November, "Mind the Regulatory Gap," in @rtoinsider.bsky.social today! Kudos @tyler-farrell.bsky.social for the 🔥 quotes #EnergySky www.rtoinsider.com/99764-rmi-ar...

#EnergySky I am on a webinar on Mar 21 that @worldresources.bsky.social is hosting on the expanding role of local governments in transmission planning, alongside Meg Maloney from the city of Dayton, OH, and Joseph LaRusso from the Acadia Center. Register below ⤵️ www.wri.org/events/2025/...

#EnergySky I'm excited for my first op-ed in Utility Dive this week, responding to the "What if Bruce Lee had set federal transmission policy?" op-ed that called for a repeal of Order 1000. This would have disastrous consequences for Americans, as I explain ⤵️ www.utilitydive.com/news/transmi...

Check out this great new analysis from my colleagues at @rockymtninst.bsky.social on how high-voltage transmission yields real benefits for consumers. Time to close the regulatory gap, stop focusing on local projects, and start focusing on regional ones!

today, I drafted comments for a FERC docket on local transmission and prepared a presentation on interregional transmission enhancements for an upcoming RTO stakeholder meeting despite all the federal uncertainty, still feeling energized by day-to-day tasks ⚡🔌💡

tell me again why you think the IRA should be repealed if it's driving 10 new EV battery manufacturing facilities in this year alone, mostly in red states/districts (thanks @dangearino.bsky.social @insideclimatenews.org for the reporting) #EnergySky insideclimatenews.org/news/2002202...

Oklahoma governor comes out in support of keeping clean energy support from the federal government #EnergySky subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

#EnergySky ICYMI, I was honored to be a featured guest on Melissa Parvis's podcast, Amped Up, all about my recent report on local transmission and the regulatory gap. Take a listen here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKvU...

#EnergySky news flash from SEIA: renewables are the FASTEST resources available to meet near-term load growth demands. Now is the time to build baby build without picking and choosing winners/losers arbitrarily through market constructs. seia.org/blog/we-need...

#EnergySky great example from @canarymedia.com on how a US Congressperson pressing the White House to approve a DOE LPO loan resulted in success. Not all hope is lost - Congress has the power to speak out on how laws like the IRA are benefitting their districts. www.canarymedia.com/articles/air...

#EnergySky great visualization from @nytimes.com showing that 80% of IRA manufacturing investments have flown to Republican districts. Dismantling the IRA = losing valuable economic development & union job opportunities. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...

The US electricity grid needs new longer-range, higher-voltage power lines to improve efficiency and resilience. With a regional-first approach, "you could be addressing local and regional needs simultaneously," RMI’s @cwayner.bsky.social told @canarymedia.com: bit.ly/3QeWEIZ

some good news today at least www.reuters.com/business/env...

Effectively paralyzing all new solar and wind development – even on private land – seems pretty contrary to conservative deregulation and free market values and non-sensical given our declared "energy emergency". This is bad: heatmap.news/plus/th...

#EnergySky the Energy Gang pod ft @jigarshahdc.bsky.social @cleangridview.bsky.social & @stephenlacey.bsky.social is back, LFG!! (now called Open Circuit, launching Feb 14 on @latitudemedia.bsky.social) 💪💡🔌 subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Rooftop solar and high-voltage #transmission have the same enemy. In this detailed story, @jeffstjohn.bsky.social explains how FERC Order 1000 backfired, and how #monopoly #utilities pursued profit-maximizing, self-serving power line projects at consumers' expense: vist.ly/3mu8xbf @canarymedia.com

tell me again how utilities care about their ratepayers' wellbeing...? #EnergySky www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol...

"...reforms are needed to push utilities and grid operators to take... a ​“regional-first” approach. ​“You could be addressing local and regional needs simultaneously and meeting both needs in a more efficient manner” Wayner said.

Thanks @jeffstjohn.bsky.social for the coverage of my Mind the Regulatory Gap report in @canarymedia.com today. Exciting to see the report and the critical issue of lack of oversight on local transmission continue to gain traction! #EnergySky 💡🔌 www.canarymedia.com/articles/tra...

guess what? domestic onshoring policy works! #EnergySky 💡🔌 www.eenews.net/articles/us-...

#EnergySky creating a thread of four climate optimism news headlines from last week that are keeping me inspired this week and moving forward First, Americans bought 37% more heat pumps in 2024 than gas furnaces, up from 21% in 2023. www.canarymedia.com/articles/hea...

Exciting to see MISO partnering with Pearl Street Technologies to use automation to reduce its queue study process timeline to under 1 year! This is the sort of innovation that we should be seeing more of from our regional grid operators. #EnergySky 💡🔌 www.rtoinsider.com/96986-miso-l...

This is one reason of many why we should avoid species extinctions: they just might be able to improve our society's ability to function In this case, polar bear fur contains a compound that could replace "forever chemicals" (PFAS) Bioinspiration is awesome www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

Let's go, Texas! "Construction of a new 765-kV transmission “backbone” in Texas will cost only 4% more than expanding the existing 345-kV system to enable anticipated load growth." ERCOT is considering a new 765 kV network - vote set for April 2025. 💡🔌 www.utilitydive.com/news/texas-p...

California dreamin' (about what the rest of the US's grid could look like) 💡🔌 grist.org/energy/calif...

I appreciate Buttigieg's honesty in this interview. Thanks to @eenews.bsky.social for covering it. Let's stop sugar coating some things. As Buttigieg says, "everything's not gonna be fine." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

I found this op-ed by Peter Kalmus in @nytimes.com to be a very powerful and sobering read on the LA fires from the lens of a climate scientist (who left LA to avoid the fire risk... and the house he moved from ended up burning down this time) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...

let me guess #EnergySky: Texas built more transmission to its neighbors to prevent a repeat of Uri, right? ...right? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/w...

#EnergySky ICYMI 22 orgs filed a complaint at @ferc.gov on 12/19/24 about the explosion of spending on local transmission. In it, they cite our (RMI) new "Mind the Regulatory Gap" report as evidence of how Tx planning is unjust & unreasonable. 🔌💡 Read more here: www.utilitydive.com/news/ferc-lo...

As I jump into the new year, I'm sifting through past headlines from end of year news emails and thought I'd create a thread of the optimistic ones to keep me going on a positive note 🔌💡