Tri State is formally challenging DOE’s order to keep the Craig coal plant running. coloradosun.com/2026/01/30/c...

Energy nerds! On Friday, I am talking with @electronecon.bsky.social of @rockymtninst.bsky.social about utility return on equity (ROE). Critics say that ROE has crept up over time & that utilities are basically making too much money, which is distorting their incentives. Got ROE questions?

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

Some tangible actions PUCs can take durring the government shutdown to assist low-income families, all of which are struggling right now as important support programs are frozen. rmi.org/as-the-gover...

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

If you’re driving around in unmarked cars, wearing masks, and kidnapping people, you’re not one of the good guys.

Millionaires will continue to live in NYC for the Lincoln Center, and Broadway, for the Opera, and the Met gala. They will continue to seek the status of living on Central Park West or in Tribeca, or billionaires row.

Updating my LEGO White House

In the few contacts I've dug into the price is paid as part of the transportation cost ($) but often reported as an added in the price ($/mmbtu) but would love to know if this is norm or outlier

That's 0.1%. FWIW, In Illinois nearly 1 and 4 adults has a criminal record (thanks to over policing). You best bet kidnapping random adults to goose up the stats is next.

Looking forward to reading the NYC oped "The rise of pro-hitler young republicans is the fault of Democrats not capitulating enough."

Wedding in sleepy hollow in October... Very fun. Meeting "Bear" at the local coffee shop... Perfect

we need to abolish this shit

Wild fact from the utility/large-business settlement proposal in FPL’s rate case, via @shelbyisgreen.bsky.social. Every time I hear a politician describe the pro-monopoly, pro-utility, pro-rate hike position as “pro-business,” a part of me dies inside. energyandpolicy.org/key-decision...

Today on Volts: traditionally, electricity grids are kept stable by large spinning masses, usually fossil fuel generators. What will ensure stability when the fossil fuels retire? Enter "grid-forming inverters" attached to solar, wind, & batteries. I dig into the tech & the growing market.

Despite not having representation at the legislature, and despite my city being turned into a police state, I show up today for jury service.

It's time to wake up! “Because here in DC we deserve leadership that is better… it is time to put them all on notice.” 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Afeni Edwards, DC Activist. #FreeDC #WeAreAllDC

#FreeDC Mass march hitting the streets of DC now.

People are being disappeared! Crime isn't down.

Our utility wildfire staff attorney, Eric Macomber, wrote a long post summarizing changes to utility liability for wildfire that have occurred across the West this year.

"As much as I love [gas], I’m never going back to it." Head chef Jeremy Chan discusses why Ikoyi, a London restaurant with two Michelin stars, uses induction cooking instead of gas burners.

The uneconomic coal dispatch work that HCI has funded at @rockymtninst.bsky.social led by @electronecon.bsky.social relies on the bulk FERC & EIA data that we publish through our Public Utility Data Liberation Project (PUDL). #OpenData #EnergySky

Today on Volts: "uneconomic dispatch" is when utilities run coal plants even when there are cheaper options, just to justify keeping them open. Based on a bogus Trump reliability report, that practice is about to get much more common, and worse. I talk with an expert.

This work wouldn't be possible without Catalyst Cooperative. Supporting them supports me, RMI, and countless others in our industry trying to use defensible data to inform policies.

Coal plants present a huge reliability liability for grids where data center loads represent a large portion of demand. rmi.org/reality-chec...

Coal plants present a huge reliability liability for grids where data center loads represent a large portion of demand. rmi.org/reality-chec...

Führer Noem can’t stop Nazi posting. Even AI agrees. Jeez.

Here’s the AI that referred to itself as MechaHitler.

It felt conspiratorial the first time, intentional the second time.

@rokhanna.bsky.social over on the other site the official DHSgov account is tweeting blatantly neo-Nazi content. @repsummerlee.bsky.social @pressley.house.gov @robertgarcia.bsky.social @davidjolly.bsky.social @adamkinzinger.substack.com Via @kateross.bsky.social

My first Utility Dive byline! @brendan.bsky.social and I show that DOE's 7/7 reliability report created a fake supply gap by ignoring most new generation planned by 2030, then only considered filling it with expensive coal plants instead of the cheaper renewables, storage and gas utils have planned.

In light of Columbia University's capitulation with a fascist regime I will no longer be entertaining donation requests or invitations to speak at events hosted by or at Columbia University.

My only qualm with this is that the electricity affordability crisis is already here. it has been here for years.

Right now, oil production marginal yields are negative but why would anyone produce something if it is losing money? We've seen this before. As a former consultant to some of the largest oil producers and refiners in the world, there are generally 4 reasons why this happens. here they are:

This clip aged like fine wine.

Good work by advertisers still giving money to the nazi site.

“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.” www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Nuclear advocates have mostly shouted their environmentalist opponents into submission, but it turns out that didn't solve the real problem, which is that the nuclear industry is a f'ing disaster with long, rich history of subsidies built on false promises, failures, & cost overruns.

This, too, is illuminating (and worries me that tons of work, such as by you, to build momentum for affirmative housing/urban YIMBYism is being co-opted & manipulated, at least narratively, at national level by Tech/Fossil):

There's still time to register!

Trump's argument for the elimination of the estate tax is that the heirs of the super rich will no longer have to go beg a predatory Jewish banker for a bridge loan to overcome cash flow problems associated with the $15 million dollar estate they're about to get.

Drones > Fireworks

Fireworks shows spreading westward on the air quality maps.

If your news organization is paying protection money to the fascists, and promising not to say bad things about them, you are not protecting free speech & democracy with your work, you have become a collaborator for fascism.

“This is blatant and vile antisemitism, and Trump knows exactly what he’s doing,” Representative Dan Goldman, Democrat of New York, said on social media. Mr. Trump has said that countering antisemitism is a priority of his presidency. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/u...

Using Jewish slurs, funding extrajudicial police actions, scapegoating foreigners and LGBTQ, building concentration camps...

Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030. Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.

They are taxing wind and solar power. Not just taking away the credits in Biden’s climate law. But actively taxing wind and solar. My god this bill is terrible. bsky.app/profile/robb...

This is a Gestapo