The NCUC has approved a second giant gas plant in Person County without having a solid grasp on either load growth or the real cost of the plant and the pipeline projects that will serve it. Get out your wallets, folks.

BREAKING NEWS: The North Carolina Utilities Commission approved a second mammoth Duke Energy gas plant based on speculative load forecasts across the street from Woodland Elementary School in Person County — exposing customers to significant rate increases and expensive gas costs 🔌💡

Would regulators encourage utilities to contract for firm transportation on gas pipeline expansions if they knew it would total a quarter of the price tag of a new gas plant? Using NPV helps daylight the true cost to ratepayers and creates a more honest comparison to the cost of clean energy.

NEW from @eddysarah.bsky.social and @indyweek.bsky.social: The National Park Service has deleted a page on Durham's Pauli Murray, part of a federal sweep of NPS content related to LGBTQ+ history. indyweek.com/culture/fede...

Today’s 50501 sit-in at the NC Capitol Building. My second protest in 3 weeks. Probably not my last.

This is a geologic fold along the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Perhaps we are in a political fold. I just hope I make it to the other side.

“debating whether a payout rate should increase to 6% or 10% is entirely missing the discussion we should be having: What does it take to halt and reverse the US’ (and the world’s) rapid descent into fascism?”

Gas pipeline companies are expanding their pipelines across the Southeast. But are we paying for infrastructure that ultimately serves to increase these companies’ ability to export gas to foreign countries, thus increasing our electric bills? Find out: ow.ly/ujIO50V5ygz 🔌💡

Trumpflation. 🙄 Let’s raise the price of houses, cars, gas, and eggs. What a stable genius.

Make America Stupid Again

Google, Microsoft, and Meta's increasing use of data centers has resulted in increased air pollution from extensive fossil fuel energy consumption and associated public health costs related to treating cancers, asthma, and other similar issues, valued at over $5.4 billion in the past five years.

SACE has created a Fossil Gas Resource Hub for communities fighting the dirty and expensive gas buildout. We hope it’s helpful.

This is SUCH an informative podcast. I wish every Southeastern regulator and public staffer would give it a listen.

It’s all $100/MWh. Every solution to meet concentrated data center load. Once we all agree than we can compare solutions at scale against each other to meet 25,000 MWs of concentrated load needed by 2030 across the country.

Fresh, hot paper drop (mine!). Yet another reason to slow our roll on the gas buildout.

Here’s Lisa Sorg @lisasorg.bsky.social being brilliant again. Thank you, Lisa, for telling our stories so beautifully.

It feels like all that was good and decent is gone now.

He’s all in.

A climate solution story if ever there was one: Building a geothermal heating system in Framingham, Mass. insideclimatenews.org/news/2112202...

Another FABULOUS story by @lisasorg.bsky.social in her Gaslighting series about the dangerous gas buildout in North Carolina. #DukeEnergy #methane #methaneisthegunslinger

Republicans did this to the working class while becoming the party of the working class. This is the legacy of the Reagan Revolution 👇

BREAKING NEWS: The North Carolina Utilities Commission has approved Duke Energy’s Roxboro fossil gas plant in Person County, leaving communities to bear costs of increased air pollution & higher electric bills. Find the ruling here: ow.ly/sMTx50UmNOx 🔌💡

BREAKING: For decades @dukeenergy.bsky.social knew that fossil fuels are warming the planet. Instead of taking action they deceived the public about these harms, denied climate science & blocked solutions. Today the Town of Carborro, NC takes them to court! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yesterday was the deadline to intervene in the FERC Docket CP25-10 for the massive 1.6million dekatherm per day expansion of Transco in the Southeast. I count almost 50 intervenors, including the #SouthernAllianceforCleanEnergy. We will be bringing the daylight!

Fantastic podcast with EnergyHub and Arizona Public Service on VPPs. The football analogy within is spot on.

The underlying article is offers a fascinating analysis of trade-offs between storage, transmission, and generation. In the analysis, benefits are maximized and price volatility reduced for the WECC with 20 TWh of storage deployed at $5 / kWh - astounding numbers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I spent the last few months channeling all my election anxiety into a giant sprawling spreadsheet tracking all 109 (i think) Project 2025 orgs, their top funders, staff, networks they belong to, + tax status and whether they appear to be violating it. Go wild: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

This is the very best pod I’ve listened to since “that day” in early November. #sceneonradio