Stephen Harvey, formerly of EIA, is presenting now at @ipu-msu.bsky.social Grid School 3. He noted that solar generation briefly surpassed natural gas generation for the US for a brief time yesterday, 5/3/2026. #EnergySky

Rhodium Group just dropped a detailed report on why your electricity bill keeps going up. It’s excellent. The diagnosis is right. The prognosis is too defeatist. A thread. 🧵

Basically, we find that unless direct air capture has a major technological breakthrough, dropping energy energy use to about 1/7, and cost to about 10% of what it is currently, you get more "bang for your buck" in terms of carbon reduction by just building renewables instead.

Michigan sets record for diesel prices Sunday. Analyst says it will hit construction, farming and trucking industries and affect food prices.

These solar canals are made with bifacial solar panels that pull in sunlight from both sides. They generate power not just from the top, but also from light reflected off the water in the canal below. #solarcanals #energysky

Off-grid in WV meaning no one can regulate but the state air quality agency and legislature. 864 train engines running side by side 24/7. This is not a comparison; this is literally the plan.

Donald Trump's green new deal My latest column for @financialtimes.com: The US president has inadvertently raised the appeal of renewable energy across the world: as.ft.com/r/ac96a71b-a...

🎁 While the Trump administration claims there is an "energy emergency," it is blocking the completion of 30 GW of wind energy. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

BREAKING: #Michigan has set a new all-time record for average diesel price at $5.990 beating out 2022's record of $5.955

Reciprocating internal combustion diesel engines are probably the dirtiest, most expensive way of generating electricity. They’re used in moments of absolute peak electricity demand and usually require special environmental waivers because they produce so much local pollution. For 1 of them.

🔴Before the Middle East crisis, 318 million people were severely hungry. Now, around the world, food prices are shooting up and the most vulnerable people will be hit hardest. 📣We must act now to prevent catastrophe for millions. https://ow.ly/uCTT50YUgxS

In WI it's legal to be out hunting not wearing blaze orange but rather, disguised as a turkey??? Did I read this right?

The Casar/Riley Lowering Utility Bills Act is getting a lot of attention. Here's my honest take: the diagnosis is right. The prescription is incomplete. Let me explain. 🧵 www.eenews.net/articles/top...

Nairobi's electric motorbike taxis are not being hit by the higher fuel prices. Also they use electric bikes produced in Africa. 🔌💡 youtu.be/OBoNsdPIt9Q?...

The Balcony, by Édouard Manet, 1868-69, 📸 by Sarah Stier

But as of April 29, 2026, there is no federal statute in the United States of America that can stop racially discriminatory voting laws from going into effect, or can be used to litigate against them once on the books.

This week, the Supreme Court finally killed off the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I've spent the past decade studying the VRA and the attacks on it, so I thought I would offer some historical perspective, and where I think we're headed. This will be a long thread; buckle up.

Some of my earliest memories are of the 1976 Bicentennial, probably because the country was saturated with all this schlock.

Who will be the leftist of 2026 to create the next schlock collection? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Jesus this is an on-point statue right about now www.bbc.com/news/article...

It is verging on impossible to properly track every case of coal plants having their shutdowns cancelled or delayed thanks to rising data centre demand. Every day it does my head in that this issue is still shrugged off as irrelevant or small or self-curing. It seems big enough to care about!!!

Good list and 🧵! 1) I'd add that *energy affordability* is the real goal, specifically for voters (i.e., primarily *residential* customers). Energy is bigger than electricity; affordability involves both how much energy costs and *how much money people have*; costs involve both prices and usage.

Trying to classify policies to bring down electricity prices into a couple buckets: 1. Invest through tax base, not rate base 2. Control utility profits 3. Improve Load Factor 4. Improve deployment efficiency 5. Reduce fuel price risk exposure

"Silence doesn't always mean consent. Sometimes it means confusion. People look around, see no one sounding the alarm, & assume maybe they're overreacting but they're not. You're not. The room *really is* filling with smoke." #ClimateChange #TalkClimate

73. bsky.app/profile/apne... The likely illegal thing where they paid off a company to not build wind turbines? They are going to do it twice more.

by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis

The Trump administration has announced two more payouts for energy companies to walk away from U.S. offshore wind projects under development.

Kevin O’Leary is trying to build a massive hyperscale data center project in Utah, which is expected to generate and consume more power than entire rest of the state. The project's final vote has been delayed due to major local pushback. www.sltrib.com/news/2026/04...

Energy efficiency / conservation is such an important part of #climateaction, and the technology is advancing! Crucial to note that collective action (via government funding for technology development & regulations) works hand in hand with 'individual' action. #electrifyeverything

This might be the most insane story about the US EPA that you’ll read.

It’s the age of electricity and America isn‘t ready. Virtually every goal Americans care about requires making big changes to the grid. I’m in @nytimes.com today writing about why power bills are going up, whether AI is to blame, and what we need to do to fix it: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Michigan's aging dams are owned by both private and public entities, regulated by state and federal agencies, and lack funds for critical safety upgrades. #EnergySky bridgemi.com/michigan-env...

Many thanks to the volunteers who put this on. With 9,000 rollers, walkers and runners, it's the second largest 5k in Michigan! Extremely well organized!

I came out of racing retirement for the Izzo 5k at MSU. 20:18, not bad for an old man!

Backers of the massive data center campus say at full buildout it will consume 9GW of electricity, more than double the entire state of Utah’s current energy use. They say they intend to burn fossil fuels on site to make all that electricity. Box Elder County will vote on the proposal Monday.

Imagine breaking 2 hours in the marathon... And coming in second! 👀 And the third place runner was 2:00! What an incredible race!

Sabastian Sawe of Kenya has become the first person to run a marathon in under 2 hours.

The destruction of the US scientific research and innovation enterprise continues. Last week, former NSF director Neal Lane said, "The Trump administration ... destroyed the old NSF. ... It's unrecognizable." And last night, Trump fired the entire National Science Board.

Lately my basement is one of those places with the wrong amount of water.

There are a lot of great Onion headlines, but as an environmental rhetorician, this has to be my #1.

I'm co-chairing a Special Session at the IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion conference (Lyon, France, 5-9 October). We are looking for papers that relate to social & economic perspectives on EVs. It is a great venue for people (like me) that bridge between technical & non-technical aspects of EVs.

STARTS TONIGHT! 4.24 Indy bit.ly/TMBG042426 4.25 Indy SOLD OUT 4.26 Indy bit.ly/TMBG042626 4.28 Detroit bit.ly/TMBG042826 4.29 Detroit bit.ly/TMBG042926 5.1 Chicago SOLD OUT 5.2 Chicago SOLD OUT 5.3 Chicago bit.ly/TMBG050326 5.15 Philly SOLD OUT 5.16 Philly SOLD OUT 5.17 Philly bit.ly/TMBG051726

See the whole thread—this is a social scientist likely targeted for his expertise on Iran and opposition to the war. There is a petition and a legal defense fund in the thread.

Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa. He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona.

The bill would have required regulators to conduct economic and national security analyses when determining whether to list a species as endangered, This was how the GOP wanted to celebrate Earth Day

15 data center bills were considered in the 2022 state legislative sessions. This year, the number jumped to 262. Tax breaks & other incentives were once the focus, now legislators are also grappling with energy, environment, siting, and transparency issues. @latitudemedia.bsky.social

NY Times story about today's court ruling on the Line 5 pipeline. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

Our #EarthDay message from the IPU 🌎.