Just trying to understand these two news items published within 5 days of each other

@moderation.bsky.app Wondering about accounts like these. OK or not?

@simonmahan.bsky.social you need to bring back your "guess the map" posts

“These are just phenomenal numbers for an industry that was built over the past couple of decades to handle much lower load growth,” said John Wilson, Grid Strategies’ vice president and the report’s lead author. www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat...

Hi #energysky We're releasing our report on utility load forecasts for 2030 next Tuesday, Nov 18. We start with utilities' load forecasts and there's more! To get you ready, over on LinkedIn I'm running 3 quizzes: (1) How much load growth forecast for 2030? www.linkedin.com/posts/wilson...

This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.

THREAD. I don't know what there is left to say about the New York Times and Democrats, but documenting their support for authoritarianism still feels important. If there's any chance to walk back from the fascist cliff, we must see why things like today's article are so dangerous.

Just the most terrifying climate-related news ... if we lose the pollinators, we lose our food supply. Can't find high ground from that ...

The Reconciliation bill moving through the Congress would set our #economy back by years, kneecap America’s competitiveness, and force families to pay billions in higher #energy costs. thepowerline.substack.com/p/one-big-be... #energysky #greensky

Hello everyone. I have had enough conversations about new projects, cases, etc. for this Friday. It's all very exciting, but I need to get some work done and it is 4 pm 😰

Preliminary data suggests that the global average increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration in 2024 will be a record. Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record. (This is the global average, as opposed to Moana Loa) gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/... 1/

Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

4th time we've lost power since moving in to this house in September 🙄

Just read an excellent substack by @charlesxjyang.bsky.social on the lack of federal action on addressing the transformer (and other HV equipment) shortage. Agree with his suggestions, but they aren't at the scale needed to get more manufacturing plants (plural) built in North America. 1/2 🔌💡

This paper is both enlightening and rigorous. I really enjoyed its high level discussion of the infrastructure of power and agency in a world in which private authority over money trumps public authority.

@jaredb-econ.bsky.social I hope you'll post your critique of @jasonfurman.bsky.social 's Foreign Affairs article here as well as on X. Looking forward to it - there's been too little substantive hindsight analysis.

The hypocrisy is a key part of Republican politics:

Congrats to @tnorris.bsky.social and the Nicholas Institute for a highly-needed report on demand flexibility, focusing on data center loads. The discussion of how AI-driven loads can be flexible on p 11-14 is very important - many readers of Grid Strategies' reports on load growth asked about this!

I wrote this NASA page about wildfires and climate change, and I'm so excited it's finally live. It's a tireless effort to get big pages published at NASA - as it should be! How long will it remain up? Who knows. Check it out while you still can. 🧪 #climatesky science.nasa.gov/wildfires-an...

His administration is literally composed of men who beat and batter women.

For the past 18 months, the Anti-Defamation League has been calling out people who criticise Israel, accusing them of antisemitism. Yet they're willing to give Elon Musk the benefit of the doubt over his nazi salute. That's not 'a bit of grace'. that's a revealing double-standard

Reading discovery responses by a contentious utility that doesn't want to answer much of anything, which is putting me to sleep. This woke me up: 🔌💡

Important reporting on offshore wind by @jael.bsky.social. Really encourage #EnergySky to give it a read ASAP

NERC's 2024 Long-Term Reliability Assessment is out, and has a lot of interesting findings. Concerns about reliability due to limited import capacity, demand growth, and generator retirements are elevating reliability risk across much of North America. 💡🔌🧵1/3

Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs. Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this? #PHEthx

@adambonica.bsky.social great post on D party fundraising. You should post your thoughts here for reaction. Campaign engagement is so dispiriting.

Another report from Grid Strategies finds that electric load growth is upon us & 5-year forecasts are all going up, up, up. This is a national security & economic competitiveness issue. Electricity is the currency of the 21st century. gridstrategiesllc.com/wp-content/u...

If you haven't read the report, just 25 minutes and you'll have the story! Hermann, thanks for having me on!

"Transformational load growth is unlikely to benefit other ratepayers under current rate structures." - E3, Virginia Data Center Study www.ethree.com/jlarc-load-g... #EnergySky 💡🔌 🧵1/3

US power demand now projected to grow by 128 GW by 2029! Last year, Grid Strategies broke the news that utilities and system operators had doubled their forecasts for electric demand growth from 2022 – a sudden jump driven by data centers and industrial load, among other factors.🧵 1/4 🔌💡

Thanks for following and reading Political Wire! Do me a favor and repost this for your network... and let them know they can follow here: @politicalwire.com Thank you!

LBNL released a best practices guide for IRP's. Thoughts on the recommendations? #energysky emp.lbl.gov/publications...

Only two more days to show your savvy ... #EnergySky

LinkedIn vs BlueSky? I'm still seeing more engagement on LinkedIn than here ... Discuss? #EnergySky

#EnergySky ... who knows the future?

How much summer peak demand are utilities forecasting (in the aggregate) over the next five years? (Official forecasts plus recent updates.) 1️⃣ About the same as last year (39 GW) 2️⃣ Between 50 GW and 75 GW 3️⃣ Between 75 GW and 100 GW 4️⃣ Infinity and beyond (over 100 GW) 📊 Show results

I'm reading studies to inform a new report on load growth, and suddenly there's this sentence, "What could bring back the animal spirits witnessed ..." #EnergySky

To connect generation to the grid, finish constructing transmission quickly. (Duh.) But projects in most regions are backlogged - some transmission owners complete projects faster. To fix this, our paper recommends FERC require transmission monitors. gridstrategiesllc.com/wp-content/u... #EnergySky

Should I change my area code now that I live in Lexington KY and haven't lived in NC for 15 years? 1️⃣ Yes, much less confusing 2️⃣ Why bother 3️⃣ No, you will annoy people 📊 Show results

A lot of new followers over the past few days: welcome all of you! Would you please help spread the word about our account on BlueSky by reposting this post? That way as many people as possible will be kept up to date with daily news about the war in Ukraine. Thanks! #Ukraine #Russia #UkraineWar

Ok, so thank you to @tnorris.bsky.social for including me in a starter pack! I was very confused by all the follows from people who weren't previously following me on y.com

Wondering if a reason this got no engagement is suppression of links to LinkedIn?

Hello friends. I appreciate the active debunking of multiple conspiracy stories about weather “control” and relief agencies. These injure the vulnerable by undermining faith in the very institutions most capable of helping them. May I share with you something about the word “debunk”? 1/

“You’ve got Donald Trump putting on a little McDonald’s costume because he thinks that’s what people do,” she said at a United Auto Workers event. “They’re not trying to empathize with us. They are making fun of us. Donald Trump thinks that people who work at McDonald’s are a joke.”

Holy shit did people know this existed? China built a 2000 mile (not a typo) 12 GW (not a typo) transmission line in 2019. That is 24 GWmiles, or 24 years of US transmission expansion at current rates. www.hitachienergy.com/us/en/news-a...

JD Vance attempts to justify spreading lies about Haitians eating pets in Springfield, Ohio: “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people then that's what I'm going to do”

Did you know that one reason new solar/wind/storage generation isn't coming online quickly enuf is that there is a supply chain bottleneck? Long waiting list for key equipment... We recommend a collective procurement program:

Did you know that one reason new power generation isn't coming online is that there is a supply chain bottleneck? Long waiting list for key equipment to upgrade transmission lines to install solar, wind, storage... We recommend a collective procurement program: www.linkedin.com/pulse/easing...

Apparently FedEx can deliver items before they ship them ...