So, let's say, save $50k by going to CAVA instead of paying DHS? www.theverge.com/report/78228...

Starbucks-obsessed 4 year old, who has never seen the movie but has suffered through the soundtrack on the rare occasion I get to pick what's on the radio: "can you tell me a cake pop demon hunters story?"

Turns out forcing old, uneconomic coal plants to remain online when the operator wanted to retire them is expensive. Keeping Campbell running in MI has cost $29 million over 5 weeks: www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...

We had such a hard time again like 6 EV chargers. Good luck

Trump's electricity tax hike is bad. @costasamaras.com explains on KQED Forum www.kqed.org/forum/201010... 🔌💡

As someone with several papers cited, I can say that - at least for the sections I know most about - this "report" is full of selectively chosen studies, misrepresentations and half-truths, specious logic, and dated science

This is an embarrassment for the sterling reputation all of the real scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy. Shame on Chris Wright.

There will be lots of debate today about climate action, and how it affects politics and whether Democrats should remain steadfast in their advocacy for it or instead focus on other things (or perhaps even actively disclaim the importance of action) as a path to political power.

In addition to the AI Action Plan, a few new AI-related EOs out this evening. The most interesting for energy nerds is the Data Center Infrastructure EO. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The 2024 transmission build # is out from Grid Strategies and ACEG. Mileage is up, but it's nothing compared to the past. cleanenergygrid.org/wp-content/u... Yet transmission spending is up. Why? The answer is in my report from last year: rmi.org/insight/mind.... Time to close the gap! #EnergySky

As a lawyer, you know you're having a bad day when a federal judge uses an exclamation point. As the Executive Branch you SHOULD know you're having a bad day when it's used to tell you to follow the law.

David LaCerte nominated to #FERC. #EnergySky

Interior issues new memo in response to anti-wind/solar Executive Order that requires any of 69 types of decisions/actions to go to the Office of the Secretary. This is the way you stall and kill projects. Intentionally red-tape projects to death.

US withdrawal from the IEA because we're mad about modeling assumptions in reports would be extremely shortsighted (and ironic). The IEA coordinates international strategic petroleum withdrawals. Without it, our ability to respond effectively to a global oil shock would be significantly diminished.

not to be the flyspeck nyt copy as if it's the most important thing guy, but seriously wtf is this?

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One of my favorite most outrageous parts of the bill is the $1 BILLION giveaway to metallurgical coal producers in the US, even when that coal is exported. We’re going to subsidize iron and steel in countries like China to compete with U.S.-made steel. There’s your govt waste right there.

This is extremely true of the energy sections too. A paperwork and regulatory mess for businesses. Any assertion about this Administration's "deregulation" agenda that does not include this new impenetrable web of requirements is missing a key aspect of the story.

Friday overnight, they added a line to the #OBBA that would send hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to China to subsidize dirty steel. Insane. A subsidy for #coal we mostly export. A subsidy to export coal to China to produce steel for less. Steel they use to compete with America.

The Senate bill raises the deficit by more than $3 trillion to give tax cuts to the richest people in America. The idea that the difference between slashing $400 billion & $500 billion in job-creating clean energy incentives creates sincere concerns for “Republican fiscal hawks” is beyond laughable.

We’ve got this surging energy demand. Our ability to deploy more stuff that’s not wind, solar and storage is supply-chain-limited. And what Congress wants to do is make it significantly more expensive to build out the stuff we can build www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Wrote a thing (with @jakehigdon.com). Congress is killing IRA tax credits in an effort to look "tough on China." But the effect will be the exact opposite.

"In the end we will cede not only our supply chains to China, but also our competitive edge in the race for AI and manufacturing dominance." Former DOE staffers @azevin.bsky.social and @jakehigdon.com argue that the Senate megabill will hand energy dominance to China ⬇️

Let’s be clear. New solar and wind plus batteries is how we are avoiding close calls this decade. And that was before the advent of AI driven demand growth.

i think this is in part why you see the energy and climate advocacy community a bit at a loss

Basically overnight, “foreign entity” restrictions are at the core of all U.S. energy policy. Not cost, not global competitiveness, not even GHG emissions. Entire industries will live and die based on untested and poorly defined concepts of foreign “assistance.” Absolute madness.

Manufacturers and data center operators better get used to Europe-level electricity prices, because that’s maybe a best case scenario under the latest Senate BBB. Looking like a 50% or greater tax increase on clean energy development at a time when demand is skyrocketing. Truly self-defeating.

The Republicans are about to enact a MAJOR (50%+) increase on American energy sources. To everyone who decried the political calculus of the BTU tax or "cap and tax", what will you say now? Any non-ironic use of the phrase "energy dominance" should be laughed out the room.

Robbie is right. This is much worse than full repeal for wind/solar. Adds 2 new taxes on wind and solar: * new tax for wind/solar facilities (including rooftop solar) starting in 2028 * kills 5-year depreciation for wind solar

New: In a letter to the Pa. delegation, Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro warned that more than $3 billion of energy projects could be threatened by the House's version of the bill. He asked the bipartisan delegation to "expand -- not harm -- Pennsylvania's energy industry" in final

when he's right he's right

I'm really feeling this today, i have to say

this seems right to me. very big for climate, energy regulatory challenges (among others)

"We have to pass it to see what's in it" was a gaffe but the theory that people will like the outcome once enacted and implemented made sense. The idea that the GOP congress is trying to *do the opposite* should be as big of a "scandal" as that pelosi quote. A crazy way to govern the country.

Hearing that this may not be a done deal and ENR Majority may be redrafting these to avoid previously-addressed Byrd issues.

Parls rules on ENR jurisdictional provisions of reconciliation. Some big wins by Dem staff, including killing off: * pay-to-play for LNG export approvals, * Exempting offshore O&G from NEPA, * Selling off federal land * a bunch @travs.bsky.social knows about. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

Update: looks like this is going to fall out as a result of the Byrd rule, per the Parlimentarian's ruling tonight

Of course, postal workers will also suffer for this. The new EVs have air conditioning, airbags, and ergonomic cargo holds that reduce the need to stoop over—all critical worker safety improvements over the 40-year-old mail trucks they’re replacing. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/u...

Senate Republicans would like to light hundreds of millions of your taxpayer dollars on fire for no reason other than spite by forcing the Postal Service to mothball EV delivery vehicles and rip out already-installed charging infrastructure. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

An extremely good moment for the United States to be abandoning federal policy tools and incentives for research, development, and deployment of electrified transportation.

Oops. I sure hope no one (DOE) is planning to rely on NERC's LRTA to justify extremely disruptive interventions into resource adequacy markets on "emergency" bases.

Also key: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and a very...engaged effort by the Biden Administration to ensure that the Civilian Nuclear Credit Program was an available tool to keep the plant open.

Good rundown from @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social and @emilypont.bsky.social (with a placeholder on sourcing and contracting requirements). My initial read is they will still be difficult for companies to convince investors they've complied. And there are now harsh penalties for being wrong.

Pretty sure it’s chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind, 3GW in Wyoming being developed by Phil Anchutz. Partially on BLM land.

EnergySky, help me crowd source this: What is a wind or solar project that has more than 1,000 megawatts of nameplate capacity and more than 25% on land owned or controlled by BLM.

Important thread from the brilliant, and loved-on-both-sides-of-the-aisle @katyhuff.bsky.social

Attacking the bipartisan consensus around nuclear power by firing a reform-minded, effective, and generally well-liked Democratic commissioner for no reason is not the way to get 400 GW of nuclear power built. (neither are cutting clean electricity tax credits or decimating LPO, to be clear)

Former state rep here. Here's the thing: being a state legislator is not fancy. You're not doing it for the money or the glamor. You're not raising millions of dollars like folks in Congress. You don't have security details. You're just a person who cares about their community.

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