Apparently SBTi has dropped its earlier proposal to make hourly matching of clean electricity part of its standard for what constitutes a "science-based net zero target." (This is separate from GHG Protocol's pending standard for scope 2 accounting.) www.ft.com/content/2ed9...

CHPE is coming. ⚡ (From Heatmap AM by @alexckaufman.bsky.social ) heatmap.news/am/fervo-ipo...

From my @heatmap.news story today: Graham Platner told anti-data center climate activists in March that if elected he’d back a national moratorium

I don’t think it does readers any favors when we sum up the story like this. We’re not just talking about regulations. It’s a fight over when to enact a carbon tax, which by definition ⬆️ energy costs for some (in the immediate term). NYers should know what’s coming to get used to the idea

Here's the story. heatmap.news/climate/micr...

The federal administration tried to shut down the Sunrise Wind Project once, and we won't let it happen again.   My office and @governor.ny.gov are intervening in a lawsuit to protect this project that supports thousands of union jobs and protects New Yorkers from climate change.

Story to come, but here's some interesting tidbits I learned in reporting on Microsoft's potential pullback to its target of 24/7 carbon-free energy by 2030. 🧵 1. Microsoft set the goal in 2021, but unlike Google, has never publicly reported on progress toward it.

@calenergy.bsky.social just issued an administrative investigative subpoena to Golden State Wind regarding its deal with the Trump administration to abandon an offshore wind project in the Morro Bay Wind Energy Area: www.energy.ca.gov/news/2026-05... cc: @emilypont.bsky.social 🔌💡

i didn't have the attention span to read all of caity weaver's article about free restaurant bread but i do hope it sparks a resurgence in the offering of free restaurant bread

Thinking again about the years of hype and buildup and fundraising leading to the launch of MethaneSAT, only to have it immediately get lost in space

We’ve officially opened the search for CarbonPlan’s next Executive Director, and would love your help sharing the position profile. Refer candidates or apply by May 29 for priority consideration: www.goodcitizen.com/executive-se...

As Pennsylvania communities grapple w/ the data center explosion, the Shapiro administration has been wheeling and dealing with Amazon behind the scenes. @jael.bsky.social has the receipts. heatmap.news/politics/sha...

The lawmakers demand that Total preserve all documents, emails, texts, etc related to the deal and put the $$ in escrow until the investigation is finished.

Yesterday suspicions were confirmed that Trump's $1b offshore wind deal with TotalEnergies wasn't a one-off but a new model to squash the industry. I wrote about who could be next in line and what this could ultimately cost the Treasury heatmap.news/energy/trump...

NEW: Jared Huffman and Jamie Raskin are going after TotalEnergies, claiming its $1B deal with the Trump administration was unlawful in “at least four separate ways.” heatmap.news/energy/huffm...

*another ~$1 Billion agreement to kill offshore wind leases

breaking: new trump agreements to kill offshore wind leases

There's so much more to this story. The forest science debate alone deserves a story of its own. To be continued.

I have a long story out today about what’s going down at the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. This org touches everything that’s happening globally on climate change, and is painfully (bc it’s so esoteric) important to climate action. Hope you give it a read. heatmap.news/carbon-remov...

Now it's over. That was it. Totally baffling.

We are more than 2 hrs into this hearing and Burgum has only been asked 1 question about the $1B Total offshore deal that was not really framed as a question and did not ask anything specific.

My colleagues and I were just talking about how we got a tiny fraction of the number of pitches we usually get for Earth Day stories. Even the PR machine is done with Earth Day! (P.S. This is not a solicitation for earth day pitches.)

For @heatmap.news today, I wrote about this problem and how — given the low snowpack and the bad fire season we're almost certainly in for — breaking through that stigma will be life-or-death. heatmap.news/masks-wildfi...

there are so many more hours in the day when you're in california

Really good headline

Sunday scoop from me before Burgum testifies in the House tomorrow: heatmap.news/energy/total...

Another way of saying this is that the regulations would have had a cost of zero. They would not have required the power sector to do anything it wasn't going to do already. Roberts said it would be the most expensive reg ever (because he heard that on Fox). But it cost nothing.

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A trio of Biden staffers who worked intimately to implement the Inflation Reduction Act have a big post-mortem out today looking at what worked, what didn't, and how to do it better next time, like... - fund implementation! - maybe don't base tax credits on LCA! more: heatmap.news/politics/inf...

NEW: Documents confirm the Trump admin aims to pay TotalEnergies from the DOJ's Judgement Fund. But there appears to be little basis for any claim of imminent litigation, which is required to unlock $$ from that fund. heatmap.news/energy/total...

TFW you raise nearly $1 billion in your series A for your fusion company…

I forgot to mention 🤝 these guys

Affordability 🤝 housing 🤝 climate = 💋 zoning reform I wrote about how popular, pro-density land use reforms like legalizing ADUs and duplexes in single-family zones are spreading to the midwest this year... heatmap.news/politics/ill...

Choosing a major was an incredibly emotionally fraught process for me in college. I can't imagine what it would feel like to have to do it today. (from www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/s...)

There's a new heat pump in town: The Merino Mono Retails for $3,800 including installation. Mounts to the wall with two small holes to exchange heat w/ outside, no outdoor unit. Just in SF and LA for now. Founding team is Ex-Quilt, Ex-Gradient. heatmap.news/sustainabili...

One ex: PSE&G, the biggest utility in NJ, has higher rates than Georgia Power. But until recently, GA customers had higher bills. Investigating drivers of high bills reveals diff policies to address affordability — i.e. incentives for insulation and efficient heating.

For the launch of our new Electricity Price Hub, I wrote about why rates and bills are not the same. We talk a lot about why rates are higher in some places than others. But some places (i.e. the South) have low rates and high bills, and demand different policy fixes heatmap.news/energy/elect...

More on those "other" charges in @jeva.bsky.social's piece: heatmap.news/energy/elect... They include costs associated with pilot programs, electrification, wildfire mitigation etc Since 2021, “other” grew 41% on average across utilities with complete data in our hub, more than any other category

Our new Electricity Price Hub is packed with useful data on how much rates have changed over time for a given utility, state, or congressional district. You can also see what proportion of the rate is going to generation, distribution, transmission, or "other" charges. electricity.heatmap.news

We are launching a big project today with MIT — The Electricity Price Hub! You can view monthly electricity prices per kwh and avg. bills for every major utility in the country going back to Jan 2020. electricity.heatmap.news

And some of the biggest factors behind bill increases don't have anything to do with the cost of generating or delivering electricity. Here’s @jeva.bsky.social on how all those “other” charges add up: heatmap.news/energy/elect...

The area served by PJM Interconnection has seen some of the fastest rate increases in the country in recent years — but as @zeitlin.bsky.social writes, the story isn’t the same in all parts of the region: heatmap.news/energy/elect...

What can we learn from all this data? For one, policymakers can’t write policy if they don’t know what they’re trying to fix. Here’s @emilypont.bsky.social on why the difference between electricity prices and electricity bills matters: heatmap.news/energy/elect...

You can also listen to Rob, Brian, and MIT’s Lauren Sidner on the latest episode of SHIFT KEY if you prefer! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

To read more about the Electricity Price Hub and what it can do, read @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social and MIT’s Brian Deese on how it can help shape and inform energy affordability policy: heatmap.news/energy/elect...

The Electricity Price Hub is a collaboration between @heatmap.news, @mit.edu, and CleanEcon, showing nationwide data on electricity bills and prices, broken down by state, county, congressional district, zip code, and utility, updated on a monthly basis.

Electricity prices are rising across the country — but even as they become an increasingly heavy burden for households and businesses, the reasons behind those prices have remained stubbornly opaque. Until now. INTRODUCING: The Electricity Price Hub electricity.heatmap.news

"I don't think they should be given any benefit of the doubt that what they’re doing here is a lawful approach, or that they have the authorization to do what they are doing," former BOEM head Liz Klein told me. heatmap.news/energy/trump...

The Interior Department this week announced that it would buy back a $1B offshore wind lease from TotalEnergies. But it’s far from clear they can actually do that. Here’s @emilypont.bsky.social on the big questions about the deal: heatmap.news/energy/trump...

All signs point to Trump's $1B offshore wind deal with Total being a settlement. But what was the cause for litigation? Trump's permitting freeze that a court already overturned? That's one of many unanswered questions about this *unusual* (to say the least) deal heatmap.news/energy/trump...