Are you based enough to charge VPPs for transmission and deep network upgrades? It sounds like Joe Bowring the PJM market monitor sure is!

Lmao Boston: proximity to oil tanks for a substation: big problem. Put a 2800MWh BESS right next to 1TWh of LNG storage. No problem! www.boston.com/news/local-n...

Hey @mayorwu.boston.gov thanks for finally doing something smart and plowing over the bike lanes on Western Ave for the snow. Big improvement from last year when you kept them up and MUCH safer

VPPAs like this should be greatly discouraged by matching and deliverability requirements. Buy energy that you can plausibly use please!

Impressive we've burned through about 40 million gallons of fuel oil in ISO-NE the last ten days or so..this represents about 1600GWh of fuel energy or about 600GWh or so of electrical energy. Or about 7.62 million Hyundai ioniq long range. Cost of the fuel: $140m @$3.50 Ioniq cost: $342b

There you go a million Hyundai ioniqs at a capital cost of 50b and you get 1GW for three whole days. That's a lot more likely to add to the load than to supply it too 😂

Solar wasn't gonna give you any heat in the winter night at 5F anyways

Love being back on Bluesky. User posts two posts criticizing me for using AI mainly for the two easily Googlable facts and doing the unit conversion and then blocks me before I have a chance to respond. Both of which I checked and are right on.

As an EE I know full well the effect on all NERC contingency planning standards when you take away the option of injecting power as long as you need to wherever you need to in the network. And power plants that run without duration limits by converting molecules might be pretty key to that...

greenfield vs incumbent infra is the entire challenge of the energy transition in one line. that's what makes it a transition!

Man our 7GW/250hr (and counting) energy storage asset has really come up huge in New England during these past week plus of cold

Listened to your episode @techconnectify.bsky.social you might want to consider this re costs of storage

Update: zero flow on NECEC leading up to the evening peak! 😅😂

Womp womp NECEC got curtailed for the Saturday morning peak

Is this gonna be cold enough to test those NECEC exports? 😅

AI tipped me off to this, but Eversource East is now issuing close to 250 mil in net metering credits (to be recovered from non solar ratepayers) for a total revenue requirement of 1.3 billion. This seems... significant. Taking the worst of CA's energy policy is unsustainable. Who woulda thought

Stop me if you’re heard this one before: the PJM capacity auction cleared at the cap 🔌💡 www.gridstatus.io/insights/310...

Even in Massachusetts it looks like we are having second thoughts about the costs of these programs. Passed out of committee 7-0. www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol...

Attorneys for the state of New York agreed in a federal court filing Nov. 12 to suspend the implementation of the All-Electric Buildings Act. #energysky 🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/YNXY50XrsBo#energyskyWriter: Vincent Gabrielle

Climate change hits hardest poor people in hot places. We need to help them not be so poor and help them not be so hot. Neither climate change, nor malaria, nor malnutrition will decimate civilization. Nevertheless, we need to solve all of these problems. www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-pa...

There needs to be another name to describe Spanish PV interconnection policy. How about "connect and pray"

Sad!

Damn Spanish grid operator not doing anything in six months was not on my bingo card! Esp when they have energy transition goals and a second blackout would... probably hurt the effort. elperiodicodelaenergia.com/la-verdadera...

Environmentalists: "climate change is the most important issue of the day and the public demands action" The public: look at these cute cats!

Probably about £200k per half hour – less than a penny per bill-payer. Over the next few months the final pieces of equipment (synchronous compensators; flywheels attached to motor/alternators) will be installed and we will be able to operate without gas when conditions allow

The number of people who've been like "see this has nothing to do with renewables" as soon as it didn't seem to be an inertia issue have... Puzzled me. Like ok, let's say inertia had nothing to do with it: this is still a huge example of why VRE has made grid management more complex and risky

Im getting props for my thread from the power engineers who support renewables 😁😂

Re: blackout. Focus on the reactive power capability of the thermals I have to say this is akin to blaming a fire that burned down the neighborhood because the fire hydrants were 30% low on pressure instead of the pile of combustibles one of the homes happened to leave next to the open pit bbq.

On Spain, I think Xiao has it right here, if not elsewhere in his response to @janrosenow.bsky.social. If the question is whether renewables-heavy grids are fundamentally unstable, then the answer is no. If the question is whether such grids require more rigorous management, the answer is yes.

Drew said it well

Friends can this be considered topology optimization as a GETS (except don't mess up)

Exactly as I said after the blackout: voltage regulation was issue, not a lack of spinning inertia, as so many quickly speculated (or asserted). It was an off peak spring day, plenty of cheap solar available, and the grid operator cut it too close, failed to commit sufficient voltage regulation.🔌💡

Poor renewable management confirmed

4% ELCC for solar in Texas h/t @xiaowang1984.bsky.social

Well speaking with hindsight all that focus on additionality in blue state REC portfolios seem to be a big self own. Should have locked up the nuclear on a PPA that was $10 more expensive than the gas plants than dally in all that offshore wind and BTM/community solar. Can't cry if someone took it.

This is stupid. I'm sorry. Buy electricity that you can use. Don't feed it in in an area that runs a bunch of nukes. www.utilitydive.com/news/cambrid...

This Tesla grid forming inverter whitepaper will probably give @worstcaseeng.bsky.social a heart attack lmao digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-conten...

Lmao! Proactive grid upgrades for capital costs on distribution shared by ratepayers at 250-$500+ per kw that only pencil because of additional state driven feed in subsidies. I specifically went to Eversource's talk at DTECH about this 😂.

Yo @sovacool.bsky.social I heard you had a paper that showed transmission costs come in under budget! Can I see the source dataset for this and which transmission projects were in this. Pretty curious in light of every single important AEMO tx project going over budget here!

In other news water is wet folks. 😂

If anyone wants a good laugh we can look at this poorly aged prediction from Synapse energy 8 years ago thinking that NE natty gas gen would be down 41% by now to try to argue that building a pipeline upgrade was a waste of money www.utilitydive.com/news/new-rep...

I want a diesel heater option for my EV car

SCE retreating slightly on their March to $1 a kwh. I guess this is good news!

I guess they tried to solicit bids without subsidies but that didn't work so we're back to subsidies. Lol. Gotta feed in on those negative prices and somehow get paid for it I guess! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

All of these studies have been out there for years, but people always make it a political issue. I am 100% for more RE on the grid, but it's the largest manmade machine we are talking about, so let the unbiased e gineers also have a seat at the table. This blackout was a good wake up call....

Real time look at the solar curtailment in Spain h/t x.com/TheOriginalT...

A pipeline for offshore wind deal is a good thing LFG! And let's run that into New England while we're at it

My Energy Institute blog post on some proposals to reduce the rooftop solar cost shift. Conclusion: hard to make much progress in CA unless we drastically change rates to stop using them to pay for fixed costs of public policies and climate impacts. 💡🔌 energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/h...

Not the biggest fan of USA offshore wind but if NY wants to build it Trump shouldn't stop it for BS reasons www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/c...

Obama era DOE in 2016 wrote an excellent high level document on reactive power that goes beyond the "beer foam analogy". how it used to be freely provided by big thermal generators and how now the changing resource mix challenges the adequate provision. www.energy.gov/oe/articles/...