Ancillary services are essential for keeping the power grid stable, but the details can be complex. In episode 2 of Frequency Band, Paul Dockery & Becky Robinson join experts Emma Nicholson, Energy Economist, and Robin Hytowitz, Program Lead at EPRI, to explain it all. ⚡️🎙️ ow.ly/83Ye50Z2mhl

I think wonky discussions of electricity market design can be fun and entertaining. If you agree, you’re the target audience of CAISO’s new podcast.

📣 keepin’ it 60 hertz 📣

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Trust beyond knowing. #GoIrish

Ari Peskoe and Fred Stafford using Simpson memes on #energysky to argue about utility business models after a David Roberts episode of Volts. I’m so happy.

Loved the episode. Especially this :

We discuss the *6* principles of energy justice that emerged from Salma's review of community-based organization *visioning documents* (a term Salma developed and popularized). 💡🔌 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"It's not always the case that we can represent our energy systems in very quantifiable, discrete ways that don't allow for political understanding in the way that having a conversation with someone would." - Salma Elmallah in conversation with Tony G. Reames, PhD and Ahlmahz Negash

The post to bookshelf pipeline.

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

Calling all Macro Energy Systems enthusiasts. I created this macro energy systems starter pack. Featuring @jessedjenkins.com @gruberte.bsky.social @jfdecarolis.bsky.social @patricia-levi.bsky.social #energySky Let me know in the comments who I missed and I'll add them. go.bsky.app/TTnoSNL

Great day reading, beautiful night leaving Radcliffe Camera @ox.ac.uk

I wrote an accessible introduction to the life and work of the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics - Elinor Ostrom. She showed that are not doomed to fall into the "tragedy of the commons." Collaborative governance is possible. islandpress.org/books/uncomm...

“There was a bargain people were making….” Jon Lovett speaks to something spiritual and communal that broke in a bargain that didn’t pay off. I continue to respect @jonlovett.bsky.social

New in Energy Economics, our paper on the challenge of allocating the cost of transmission in a manner "roughly commensurate with benefits" when nobody can agree what the benefits are. 50-day share link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kB0SW3fc~...

Hi #EnergySky! I hear that anyone who is energy-one is here!

@erinbakerenergy.bsky.social 👋

News in western markets from NewsData. NewsData folks on here yet? www.newsdata.com/california_e...

Incredible episode of the Ezra Klein podcast with Jennifer Pahlka (@pahlkadot.bsky.social) The importance of building institutional capability to deliver results is as true at electric utilities as it is in federal, state, and local government agencies. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

This was an especially good episode.

Tomorrow the best Christmas pageant ever. After Thanksgiving Red One. Bliss.

Moana 2 with the kids this afternoon. I’ve waited for this my whole life, I’m entering movies-with-the-kids age.

We're just waiting for the funding to do this! Anyone want to chip in a grant or gift, DM me. Seriously. 2025 could be the year for this. We need a GUI + a cloud based solver implementation and we can make GenX+Sienna & PyPSA easy for all to use and access. Both are already best in class models.

Hey #EnergySky. Even if you don't see yourself as a justice-focused energy researcher, probably worth following folks who are. 🔌💡

11yr old and 9yr old joined me while I was doing homework last night and 11 yr old started making up math problems for 9 yr old to solve on my whiteboard. Made my heart glow. Maybe mid-life crisis return to school is paying off.

Started this starter pack with energy justice & climate justice folks. Let me know who I should add to it. go.bsky.app/HXiuKJ5 (P.S. yes this is my way of finding my friends that migrated to bluer skies) @costasamaras.com @menrywy.bsky.social @leahstokes.bsky.social @sidersadapts.bsky.social

Is electric grid reliability a "public good"? Dive into the details in our recent episode with @knowledgeproblem.bsky.social

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“A complex system usually has numerous balancing feedback loops it can bring into play, so it can self-correct. One of the big mistakes we make is to strip away these mechanisms. [A heartbreaking way we do this] is encroaching on our time for rest, recreation, socialization, and meditation.”

Welcome new energy-climate folks! Find below: - 17 starter packs (scroll down) - Starter tips - #EnergySky guidance - Full directory of starter packs - Intro document

@nicolehughes.bsky.social, Executive Director of Renewable Northwest, has arrived!!! 🔌💡

h/t @aripeskoe.bsky.social for the inspiration

Legit.

“Using accumulated wealth, privilege, special access, or inside information to creat more wealth, privilege, or access are examples of ‘success to the successful.’ “The trap of success to the successful does its greatest damage in the many ways it works to make the rich richer and poor poorer.”

I’m on the “System Traps” section of Donella Meadows’ “Thinking in Systems” where she reviews policy resistance, drift to low performance, and escalation. Folks, I think our systems are broken and we’re caught in system traps. 🔥🫠

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“When there are long delays in feedback loops, some sort of foresight is essential. To act only when a problem becomes obvious is to miss an important opportunity to solve the problem.” - Donella H. Meadows, “Thinking in Systems: a primer”

My paper on long-run pricing in markets with non-convexities won the 2024 INFORMS Best Paper in Energy Award. connect.informs.org/energy-natur... If you've ever heard about "fast-start pricing," "uplift payments," or "make-whole payments," you've heard about non-convex pricing. (1/2)

Welcome to the Friendly Skies! Here's some good starter packs to get you going. Please also follow the #EnergySky and #GreenSky feeds. If you include 🔌💡 in your posts, they will show up in the Energy Sky feed (or use the #EnergySky tag). GreenSky membership is moderated by @ketanjoshi.co.

9 energy-climate starter packs: 1)Power go.bsky.app/RwCBCab 2)Media go.bsky.app/2TNd1Ya 3)Solutions go.bsky.app/Aa1sErQ 4)Science go.bsky.app/7Mbnoge 5)Legal go.bsky.app/R4ZUdPE 6)Women go.bsky.app/AGCURBf 7)Nuclear go.bsky.app/5EJY58V 8)EVs go.bsky.app/R4ZUdPE 9)Southeast go.bsky.app/AZ6Xw1U

Here's a starter pack for electric grid & power systems - lmk if you want me to add your account! (Omissions 100% unintentional, still finding folks here :-) 🔌💡 go.bsky.app/RwCBCab

@simonmahan.bsky.social is there and #EnergySky 💡🔌 starter pack? Since the porting of personalities has sped up, I’m not sure I have all the main characters on BlueSky yet!

In personal news, I am on my way to England to start Oxford’s MSc in Energy Systems on Monday. The first session is on thermodynamics and I assume I’ll be learning about the magic of heat pumps from the ghost of J.R.R. Tolkien. Otherwise, I’m totally unprepared.

Farhad Billimoria, @conleighbyers.bsky.social, @knowledgeproblem.bsky.social, and Ahlmahz Negash discuss the classification system used in economics to distinguish public goods from private goods and what classifying some services as common pool resources means for grid planning and market design.

What if Costco ran the grid? 🔌💡 publicpowerunderground.substack.com/p/lynne-kies...