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...

so the speakers list for abundance conference is >80% men www.abundancedc.org/speakers

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

Given that this entire thing is being done illegally via an executive memo with no legislation or enforcement mechanisms, it would be nice if Democrats started making it clear right now that they will never respect or acknowledge this assertion once in power.

Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"

Eight utility commissions in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator’s footprint are challenging the U.S. Department of Energy’s emergency order to keep a coal-fired power plant running in Michigan past its May 30 retirement date www.utilitydive.com/news/state-u... 🔌💡

And then this shit just came out. When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car. When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.

New tool for modelers&solver devs! The Open Energy Benchmark lets you compare 5 OSS & commercial LP/MILP solvers across more model framework, enhancing speed, scale, transparency of the energy transition. 🔗 More at openenergybenchmark.org #OpenSource #EnergyModeling #Benchmarking #EnergyTransition

New short post on LinkedIn here for ya - putting Meta's dash for gas in the context of their efforts to wreck emissions accounting www.linkedin.com/pulse/big-te...

Extreme heat is the most deadly weather event in the US. Images are critical pieces of any news story — they draw readers in and help to communicate the story itself. However, publications continue to publish photos that fail to convey the severity and danger of extreme heat.

Exclusive: RMI found that utility and IPP plans to build more gas are out of step with the reality of supply chain constraints. www.latitudemedia.com/news/report-...

Wait Joe, really? Are you saying we could: 1) Force coal to run and increase prices by $15B, with no benefits? Or 2) End energy poverty for $10B? And we might choose #1?!

My team is proud to release new data on coal economics! With some calling for increased reliance on coal, RMI has re-run the 2024 coal dispatch data, assuming all coal is self-scheduled at 100% of capacity. The results: $15 billion in increased costs! utilitytransitionhub.rmi.org/economic-dis...

1 in 7 Americans relies on SNAP for their food benefits. Not only is it a critical program in promoting food security/health, but it has an outstanding return on investment: for every $1 invested in SNAP, there is $1.54 in economic activity as people go to local grocers. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

My team is proud to release new data on coal economics! With some calling for increased reliance on coal, RMI has re-run the 2024 coal dispatch data, assuming all coal is self-scheduled at 100% of capacity. The results: $15 billion in increased costs! utilitytransitionhub.rmi.org/economic-dis...

Magic The Gathering event vs. Trump's Birthday Party