I'm really enjoying @sammyroth.bsky.social's Climate-Colored Goggles newsletter. Among other things, it is sending me links to climate- and energy-related articles that I might have missed. This one on #nuclear by @insideclimatenews.org I found insightful. /1 insideclimatenews.org/news/0211202...

I am continually shocked at how many people are not paying attention to what #Trump is doing with trade policy. He's driving us towards #autarky and disconnecting us from the global trading system. This is not going to end well.

I am proud to speak on behalf of #RhodeIsland's fight for #offshorewind for @zdfde.bsky.social's documentary about current politics of the #energytransition. It is unfortunate that the parts about @climateactionri.org and our #YestoWind campaign did not make the cut. /1 www.zdf.de/play/dokus/p...

The thing about the "I voted against this" position Schumer is taking is that either he is trying to mislead Dem voters by implying he didn't support reopening right now, or he has no control over his caucus.

So many of the takes on the #pasta #tariffs betray a lack of understanding about anti-dumping duties. Friends: Trump doesn't personally run anti-dumping or countervailing duty (AD/CVD) cases, or set the duty rates. US AD/CVD practice was bat-shit crazy *before he ever took office.*

I mean Q Cell is one of the companies pushing for the aggressive tariffs and import attacks and all kinds of shit. Leopard Party member surprised by the leopard eating them…

This sucks for these thousand #solar workers and their families. As for QCells' leadership... 1) According to Customs data, they are getting nothing released under UFLPA. 2) They are participants in weaponizing trade policy to be part of an oligopoly. No tears. /1 www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

If we are talking about leadership of the Democratic Party, then it is the first and the third. Wondering how much of those who answered #2 are on a steady diet of reality-warping right-wing propaganda.

I have been trying to say this for some time, but never managed to do so as well as @commercialsolarguy.com just did. There are consequences to trade policies that slow #cleanenergy deployment. Like deaths.

There is a bogus but persistent argument that we don't have enough space for #solar and #wind. What that argument misses is that solar can usually be deployed *in the same footprint* as other uses, like parking lots. Just as wind can be deployed in farms & forests. /1 electrek.co/2025/11/02/n...

Enough is enough. Contact your Democratic senators TODAY and tell them to call for Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. We desperately need new leadership in the Democratic Party.

Now every American family who eats pasta gets to find out how our anti-dumping laws allow American companies to shut our foreign competition, create oligopolies, and wildly distort markets to their benefit. Welcome to the reality that the #solar industry has been living for 13 years.

The deranged Nazi werewolf likes to flatter himself. The list of those who we need to put on trial when this is all over for crimes against humanity starts with Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, Todd Lyons, Greg Bovino, et al. Bannon doesn't even make the first page of this list.

Notable that much of the news about Nancy Pelosi retiring from Congress doesn't lead with the obvious toll that having her husband beaten *with a hammer* must take on her. I don't see right-wing violence driving liberal politicians out of office as an accidental by-product, but rather their aim.1

Every time its windy just think power prices are going down! Wind in New England hit a new record of 1.58 GW at 3:45 PM on November 1. (via www.gridstatus.io)

Last Saturday, at 3:45 PM, #wind output on the ISO-New England grid hit a new record at 1.58 GW. This is after successively posting new records of 1.4 GW and 1.52 GW in October (16th & 31st). The main driver here is undoubtedly more of the Vineyard Wind #offshorewind plant coming online. /1

All 6 Branches Of Armed Forces Present At Arrest Of Undocumented Nanny

Now this should be good. One of the things that I've always appreciated about @ericwesoff.bsky.social is not just that he says the sometimes difficult and unpopular things that need to be said in the #solar industry, but that he manages to do so with humor.

Analyses suggest that offshore wind could lower overall energy costs for ratepayers by displacing more expensive fossil fuel power plants. New England's power grid also relies on offshore wind developments to meet rising energy demands. Read more: www.providencejournal.com/story/news/e...

This is why I donate to individual Democratic candidates, but never to @electdemocrats.bsky.social. The reactionary centrism from the leadership of the Democratic Party - including @schumer.senate.gov - is nothing but sabotage masquerading as pragmatism.

Big news: the #RhodeIsland Energy Facilities Siting Board approved the 1200 MW SouthCoast Wind #offshorewind project. SCW will be the 3rd OSW project to sell (some) power to RI utilities when the contract is finalized. We're still a ways from steel in the water, but this was an important step. /1

Not surprised true mensch @sanders.senate.gov supports eliminating the red tape and bureaucracy that makes it needlessly hard to build things we need: housing, clean energy, healthcare facilities, etc. He calls it "good governance." I don't care what you call it, but I call it #YIMBY. /1

[email protected] was wrong about #energy, and he's now wrong about the #climatecrisis and #globalhealth. He's a billionaire software salesman, and like so many tech #billionaires, he is under the delusion that he is a polymath with a superior assessment of the world's problems. He isn't.

As we celebrate Jackie Merlos being reunited with her family, we must remember she was taken away from her children for four months for what appears to be no good reason, and that #ICE continues to kidnap our immigrant neighbors wantonly. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

McKee may talk a good game, but @peterneronha.bsky.social the tip of the spear when it comes to #RhodeIsland 's resistance to the Trump Regime.

Thank you @michaelemann.bsky.social for being clear about the connection between the #climatecrisis and stronger hurricanes. These more powerful storms destroy homes, displace populations, and kill people. Those in power who are slowing the transition to #cleanenergy are literal murderers. /1

Already cancelled my #spotify premium subscription. There are so many other streaming options that don't support #Fascism (and pay artists better).

Hi nerds, it's workshop time. Tomorrow, Wednesday, 10/29, at 5:30pm in Newport City Hall Council Chambers, the Energy & Environment Commission and City Council will co-host a workshop on a moratorium on new natural gas hookups on Aquidneck Island. Here's a little about what this will/will not be.

Right. We Americans definitely don't need no (checks notes) cutting-edge battery factory, employing the best technology in the world, directly employing 2,350 people in our crumbling, deindustrialized, population-losing Upper Midwest, now do we? #Sinophobia insideevs.com/news/776936/...

Great idea. Buy the land, build housing. Nothing is as likely to work in the long run to contain & ultimately lower housing prices as building more housing. Also looking forward to @pvdcitycouncil.bsky.social passing rent control as an immediate fix. Win-win. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/27/m...

Nice that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social has finally gotten around to endorsing #Mamdani, 11 days before the election. Note that @schumer.senate.gov is still MIA. This is why I give money to specific Democratic candidates and never @electdemocrats.bsky.social. www.reuters.com/world/us/jef...

I've been so busy that I missed @sammyroth.bsky.social's last column for the @latimes.com. If you haven't yet, read it. "Trump and his allies don’t care about energy dominance. They care about killing renewable energy and helping fossil fuel companies profit." /1 www.latimes.com/environment/...

This is dead-on: "...they’re already part of the culture wars. The fossil fuel industry and its right-wing allies made sure of that a long time ago. They convinced large swaths of the American public — and crucially, Republican Party leaders — that #solar and #wind energy are a “woke” scam."

YES. The delusion that Trump’s lackeys can be rationally persuaded to support renewables, *even where they benefit MAGAs most,* is a solar industry-wide problem. Culture>politics>material concerns. There is no staying “above” the culture war, if we don’t fight it we’re just squashed underneath it.

We have a really big, catastrophic oil spill in #NewEngland every 10-20 years. And in between? There's a lot of smaller oil spills. They just aren't reported. So do tell me again how anti- #offshorewind conspiracy theorists are concerned about the ocean given that they never mention oil spills.

Ran across this an article from a August that shows that interconnection approvals for new electricity generation at grid operators increased 33% in 2024. This is a BFD. Interconnection has been a major bottleneck for the speed of the US #energytransition. /1 pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/08/28/s...

After an interesting convo with Dr. Stephen Porder of Brown yesterday at No Kings!, I decided to do something I've been putting off for a long time: preliminary analyses of the optimal mix of #wind and #solar on the #NewEngland grid. Buckle up, this is going to be an #energytransition thread. /1

Some of the sights of the #NoKings protest in Glendale, CA USA

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Here at the #NoKings rally in #Providence, #RhodeIsland and we already have hundreds. More people streaming in all the time.

Good news: On Th night, the #NewEngland grid hit 1.41 GW of #wind output at 6:50 PM. I think this is a new record; just a few weeks ago we celebrated hitting 1.3 GW. This is likely more turbines at the Vineyard Wind #offshorewind plant coming online. This will lower bills across the region. /1

Afterwards, feel free to recommend to me some more effective forms of non-cooperation with this regime. But only those that you are personally willing to engage in.

Great news: 176 new one-bedroom homes in #providence for the formerly chronically unhoused. And we probably need at least 10 more of these to deal with our city's #housingcrisis. Thank you @wheelerreporter.bsky.social for your reporting. /1 www.providencejournal.com/story/busine...

Sick burn here. The GOP doesn't care about markets. The GOP doesn't care about the Constitution The GOP doesn't care about privacy. The GOP doesn't care about deficits. It was all lies. They care about power and dominance. Power over you, power over people of color, power over women.

Excited that @berkeleylab.lbl.gov's 2025 data drop for utility-scale #solar is out. Among other things, it validates what I've said: #Maine and #RhodeIsland are the top states in terms of moving to #solar East of the Rockies. Maine: 17.1% of load met with solar in 2024 Rhode Island: 16.4% How? /1

#Israel continues to starve Palestinians. "Israeli officials said 600 trucks have been approved to enter the blockaded territory under the current U.S.-brokered truce deal. Fletcher called that a “good base” but said it was not enough to meet the scale of need." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

I think this story is meaningful if you pay attention to Greta Thunberg's message and words: "This shows that if #Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors." /1 #Gaza

Personal automobiles are not just 16-17% of total US greenhouse gas emissions. They also siphon off the potential wealth generation of poor and working people, keeping them in the grind and often in precarity. America's relationship with the automobile is a policy failure in so many ways.