Really excited to see some of my recent writing is getting traction. I’m in the long game for issues on the environment winning the left elections but we have to clean house open.substack.com/pub/drlennec...

"The grid is decarbonizing" is not the same as "everyone benefits." New EPRI analysis connects nodal power system modeling with community vulnerability data to track distributional air quality impacts. The who is the point.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright says wind and solar were "a cost center" and "not actually helpful" for the East Coast grid during Winter Storm Fern. He ignored renewables' year-round value, the Texas solar-battery boom, and winter risks to fossil fuels: www.canarymedia.com/articles/tra... #energysky

this is excellent, and broadly relevant well outside of environmentalism open.substack.com/pub/drlennec...

They gloat now but I don't think they realize what a can of worms they've opened up here. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

A record snow drought with unprecedented heat is hitting Oregon, along with most of the American West.

In nominal dollars, of course. ;)

I'm sure Bad Bunny was aware that utility regulators from around the country were meeting at NARUC this week and that he could put grid resilience and distribution infrastructure front and center in the agenda, right?

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

I'm hiring! Come work with me as an Energy Policy Analyst at Gridworks, supporting our work to build a stronger, more equitable, more reliable energy grid in the Western U.S. This role is remote and open to folks living in MT, WY, ID, UT, AZ, or NV. Details below. gridworks.org/wp-content/u...

Fascinating chart from The Argument, which captures (1) the little discussed but quite important Great Libbing Out of Reddit and (2) the fact that people who read/watch the news on any outlet founded before 1995 are approaching D+1000 territory www.theargumentmag.com/p/twitter-is...

Today, for @publicenterprise.bsky.social, I'm doing some buy-side research for policymakers: How do renewable energy project financing conditions challenge public agencies' ability to deliver on their clean energy goals? Here's our latest research note: publicenterprise.org/report/resea...

Here's the slide I use when I talk about rising costs in BOTH gas and electricity systems. Capital expended on distribution poles, wires, and pipes is the main cost for utilities and are the main driver of your rapidly growing energy bills. Gas 4X and electricity 2X inflation between 2003 and 2023.

Who’s in?

Dark red line along the bottom of graph is CA, the place some misinformed folks say has expensive elec due to all its wind, solar, and batteries. (Counting RA cost doesn't chg the story) Our high rates pay for response to what climate change is already doing: wildfires. www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

Great piece from @ellanilsen.bsky.social on the drivers behind rising electricity prices across the country: edition.cnn.com/2026/02/02/c...

🔌💡 #Electricity costs are rising across the country, but not always for the reasons you might suspect. Our @brendan.bsky.social cites the hidden costs of wildfire prevention as one particular reason for higher #utility costs. edition.cnn.com/2026/02/02/c...

Great analysis from @michael-thomas.bsky.social on where data centers are proposing their own on-site generation (mostly gas for now, but I think the storage wave is coming): newsletter.cleanview.co/p/bypassing-...

I gotta do this over here too, cause this just seems like such a thinly veiled attempt to build gas plants without regulation. They aren't "islanded" because they will buy gas from the grid, just like 40% of the rest of our power generation. Take a guess what that will do to electricity prices?

Really bad news for wildfire, hydro output and electricity prices later this year.

A way to meet fast-growing data center demand, using clean energy and existing points of interconnection: energyathaas.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/a...

Don’t panic over NERC’s reliability maps — they’re a static snapshot built on outdated assumptions and data that can mislead. Read the fine print: planning, forecasts, storage, and grid solutions matter more than doom-and-gloom colors. southernrenewable.org/news-updates...

If only there were a news organization that could dedicate investigative resources to verifying some of these claims.

DOE issued a similar emergency order to keep the TransAlta coal plant in Centralia, WA, open. EIA grid data shows it has not generated any power since Dec. 19.

Are congressional republicans (MTG aside) just planning on going down with the ship?

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

2026 is going to be a great year to run for office. Filing deadlines are coming up fast -- in most places, it's not too late to get on the ballot. We'll help you get started. runforwhat.net

"This is what it looks like when ideology drives energy policy. Keeping money-losing plants online skews the market, making it harder for companies to invest in the infrastructure of the future." writes the @washingtonpost.com editorial board: wapo.st/4kkqSsj 🔌💡

More than 34,000 Minnesotans signed up to be trained as ICED observers with various activist groups in recent weeks, many of them since Jan. 7, when a federal agent shot and killed Renée Good.

Children. They are literally tear gassing children.

Thousands of protesters marched to Portland's ICE building Saturday. Demonstrators were met with large clouds of tear gas, pepper balls and flash-bangs shortly after their arrival. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Temps in the low 20's-30's in the South and renewables holding it down again today: Texas (ERCOT) - ~50% solar! v. ~30% gas, with batteries dispatching earlier at ~ 6GWs #energysky

All of the people involved in this disgusting, depraved and abusive network of powerful people should be held accountable, whether that’s for their direct actions or their silence about what they know. Sickening.

We went from “Claude Code Is pretty cool” to “autonomous agents are conspiring to hide their communication from humans” awfully quickly.

We’re toast.

Lots of folks sharing this scary-looking map from NERC. But it should be read as the highest-value places to build demand flexibility, large scale and distributed storage, energy efficiency over the next 4 years, which can be built much faster than new gas plants. www.nerc.com/globalassets...

This is such a good, important piece. Read it.

"What about recycling the batteries?" is something the fossil fuel people who don't care about the climate or environment like to say about batteries. What if they were recycled into money?

1) Fuck ICE, and 2) in our ongoing pursuit of a more just, more dignified, more joyful, and better future, @jlappen1.bsky.social and I are really proud of our new piece in Science on managing fossil fuel phase-out www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

TFW your kids school sends parents an email regarding the nationwide general strike being organized for tomorrow.

Building a data center costs between $9-15 million per MW of IT load, BEFORE the cost of chips and servers (which multiply this cost by 4-5x). Some great data in this report: cushwake.cld.bz/Data-Center-...

Woah this NYC isometric map (looks just like Simcity 2000) is blowing my mind! cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/

This is a super insightful graph from @kingsmillbond.bsky.social illustrating how countries like India that are experiencing economic development later are skipping over some (not all) fossil dependency. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

We got the former heads of international finance at both the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury to write a guest post for @alphaville.ft.com about what Trump is doing to the dollar. They were … unimpressed. www.ft.com/content/0933...

Batteries. Batteries, batteries, batteries. Furthermore, batteries. In conclusion: batteries!

Early/mid-career energy modeling folks - great opportunity here with some of the smartest people in the modeling community: www.sylvan.energy/careers

this is totally unfair, they also don't work in the heat

Falling costs of clean energy generation and electrified end uses are converging into one global trend. Love this framing from Ember and DER Task Force: www.dertaskforce.com/p/the-electr...