#energysky #greensky #heatpumps

@bunkum.us reading this book and I think you'd like it www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...

The "spark gap" - the price difference between electricity and natural gas - is one of the biggest challenges in heat pump adoption. While heat pumps use 3-4 times less energy than gas furnaces, higher electricity rates can sometimes offset these efficiency gains. (1/3)

Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social

Speaking of failings of blue state governance: just helped a struggling mom get her stroller down subway stairs, she was dangerously close to losing control. Elevator was out. Upon leaving the station, ran into protest outside of @mta.info's HQ. Their chant: "what do we want? elevator maintenance!"

BIG NEWS: #SB282, the Heat Pump Access Act, advanced in #CALeg yesterday! This critical legislation will streamline the permitting process for heat pumps, making it faster and more affordable to modernize homes with efficient heating & cooling. @scottwiener.bsky.social #BuildingDecarb #EnergySky

Another year or three and renewables will meet 100% of additional power demand. And then they will keep going from there. The trope that new energy technologies are only ever additive will take some time to die, but die it will - as all pseudo-scientific cargo cults eventually do.

What if instead of spending billions to replace old natgas pipes (that we need to start shutting down), we just gave the affected customers heat pumps? Our latest @switch.box report got an excellent write-up by @colinreports.bsky.social

BREAKING: Four climate justice groups sue NY over delays in implementing its climate law. Groups claim the state is “stonewalling necessary climate action in outright violation” of its legal obligations nysfocus.com/2025/03/31/n...

The fact that "Baby Shark" is this generation's "Baby Beluga" proves that we live in a fallen age.

Hey #energysky #econsky, anyone aware of good research on the demographics of heat pump adopters?

Sitting in a meeting today with three former energy secretaries and three former FERC commissioners and this paper just keeps coming up. Tyler and his coauthors are doing great work and it is being noticed.

Gas is just a bridge fuel they said. 🔌💡

If you want to know more about the past, present and future of #BuildingDecarb in #Maryland, or how their experience can help you decarbonize buildings in your state, register for the BDC National Policy Call: Maryland today! #Heatpump #Cleanheat #EnergySky

Our report on energy poverty in New York gets a shoutout in this @gothamist.com piece about gas bills being too damn high #energysky

This is wild. 🔌💡

Disappointing to see @govkathyhochul.bsky.social backtrack on #NYHEAT in her budget, but we're going to win this with or without her. All attention now moves to the Assembly. We can and will win it this year to lower bills and slash pollution. Let's go! www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/01/21/g...

Preview! Dandelion Energy CEO Kathy Hannun will talk at this Thursday's Speaker Series event about what state's are getting right and wrong when supporting deployment of ground source heat pumps. Don't miss it! RSVP here: lnkd.in/g4XF8A9s

Since nobody asked, here is a map showing where polar bears have been found in Iceland after drifting over from Greenland on icebergs.

📣 Tune in this Thursday (10/23) to hear from Kathy Hannun of Dandelion Energy about which policies are doing the most to speed — or impede — the deployment of ground source heat pumps. Come hear how your state ranks! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #climatesky #energysky

"The median price of a home in California is $869,000. In Texas it is $349,000." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-crisis-o... I really really have found myself enjoying the work in Liberal Currents of late.

I've done a pass through the Spanish Electricity Market from the POV of a customer. The initial driver was my ongoing unhappiness that when California chose to adopt Income Graded Fixed Charges (IGFC) I saw no discussion anywhere of ... #EnergySky open.substack.com/pub/pelegri/...

The path to avoiding the worst of climate change runs through state senates and city councils, public utilities commissions and planning bodies, co-op boards and HOAs and PTAs and neighborhood associations. Remember the physics definition of power: it’s work over time.

Today seems like a good day to share this Scientific American story on how vaccines have saved more lives throughout history than any other intervention www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

It's official: I'm writing a book. Should be out early fall 2026. Thrilled to be working with MIT Press.

some ways to generate electricity A) use sunlight to drive photosynthesis in plants, let plants die, wait ~100 million years, dig up fossilized plants, burn plants, use heat to boil water, use steam to drive a rotating turbine, use generator to make electrons B) use sunlight to make electrons

The ever-insightful Mohit Chhabra's excellent blog post addressing recent handwringing about solar curtailments in CA. Curtailments are a symptom, not the problem. We need broader smoother markets, transmission investment, and retail rates that reflect actual costs. www.nrdc.org/bio/mohit-ch...

🔌💡Yes, reconductoring & rebuilding almost 5,000 miles of AEP transmission lines in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, & West Virginia! I know you Europeans already know all about it, but we’re still catching up here in the US! More please! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 www.energy.gov/lpo/articles...

In the Albany Times Union, BDC’s Lisa Dix explains how the #NYHEAT Act provides NY with a “blueprint for a cleaner, healthier and more affordable future” and urges Governor Kathy Hochul “to make this vision a reality.” #BuildingDecarb #ThermalEnergyNetwork #EnergySky bit.ly/3Co9txc

Welp, New York's cap-and-trade system has been delayed by another year by Gov. Kathy Hochul. By law, the state must cut total emissions 40% from 1990 levels by 2030. Punting on the policy puts this goal firmly out of reach & deprives New Yorkers of the benefits outlined in @switch.box's report 🔌💡

Our most recent report on NY's forthcoming Cap-and-Invest program was covered by Politico, along with another excellent study by @rff.org and @nycejalliance.bsky.social that reached similar conclusions about the transformative potential of putting a price on carbon in New York State. #energysky

We celebrate Governor Kathy Hochul's commitment to significant funding for #BuildingDecarb, including #ThermalEnergyNetworks, in her #SOTS, and we urge her to prioritize #NYHEAT in her Exec Budget, to lower costs for families & advance neighborhood-scale decarb. #EnergySky bit.ly/3PCEosO

New York is preparing to launch a Cap-and-Invest (C&I) program that could be transformative for the state, catalyzing an economy-wide shift to clean energy, while raising billions of # a year to invest in decarbonization projects—according to a report we dropped just this morning. 1/4 🔌💡#climatesky

Go work for the most effective utility consumer advocates in New York!

@kevinjkircher.com skimming your notes on Monte Carlo simulation and getting triggered; having unpleasant flashbacks to mathstats, proving that estimators are unbiased

Moar Busses go Vroom! This is exactly what was supposed to happen with congestion pricing, and hopefully more cities to take notice.

Antisocial behavior and drug use has made many parents afraid to ride public transportation. They’ve been told to get over it or move to the suburbs. My latest: www.cartoonshateher.com/p/subways-ar...

Good morning with good news: India doubled solar installations in 2024, compared to 2023, to a record high 24.5 GW. Wind additions also rose 21% Utility-scale additions nearly tripled & rooftop rose 53% to 700,000 rooftop installations in 10 months! www.pv-magazine.com/2025/01/10/i... #energysky

I wrote about which states to watch on clean energy policy as legislatures convene. The answers included some of the usual suspects: CA, IL, MA, NY and TX. If this was a 10,000-word column, I would have talked about CO, NC and OH and others. insideclimatenews.org/news/0901202... #energysky

Not a new video, but definitely worth a watch ⬇️ We need to legalize single staircase apartments. They fit nicely into existing neighborhoods, and the (historic) risk of fire in such buildings has long since been mitigated by improvements in building codes/materials/methods. youtu.be/iRdwXQb7CfM?...

I refuse to shut up about this: NYC started charging $9 to bring a car into our most transit-rich zone, the haters & trolls predicted doom, but traffic evaporated instantly and here’s Times Square tonite (even after the holiday tourists have left). For a better future, build transit & price driving!

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New York's PUC just ordered all the state's investor-owned utilities to procure 350MW of energy storage—300MW of this is just for ConEd/NYC. A good first step, though it represents just 5% of the state's 2030 goal of 6GW of storage. #energysky

Retaliatory congestion pricing! We love to see it. #energysky

New NREL modelling of 61 scenarios of US power sector thru 2050 is out. Under a current policies mid case, solar and wind look set to dominate with nuclear and gas still very much in the mix and storage ramping significantly #energysky (1/n)