Window mounted heat really could be the biggest thing in residential decarb since EVs went mainstream. Between this and other projects @bhaboston.bsky.social is leading the way!

Want to save electric ratepayers money?

While the third-party supplier industry claims its issues are limited to small "bad apples", the DPU is accusing one of the largest suppliers in the Commonwealth of multiple different kinds of fraud. #energy #masspoli

Trump really loves smashing the “make electricity more expensive” button on his desk. I can’t say I am a fan.

Going after aggregation because sometimes utility basic service is cheaper is like saying climate change isn't real because sometime it snows. It's the long-term average that counts.

Having monopoly utilities build massive pieces of energy infrastructure is often expensive and slow. Maybe small low-to-no-install options like this (and solar and window-mounted heat pumps) can be a better option.

MA has many great energy programs, and then there's the APS.

You 👏can 👏 build 👏homes 👏 with 👏 out 👏 gas.

The EPA Administrator seems to be entirely unaware that its high per unit distribution costs, not high generation costs, which are largely responsible for New England’s high energy prices. Building a pipeline to fix our energy issues would be like going for a run to fix a bad knee.

Good climate policy doesn't have to be expensive.

Opinion pieces like this never seem to answer the simple question, what does nuclear get you that batteries, wind, and solar can't get you faster and cheaper?

The more I hear about window mounted heat pumps the more they seem like solar. Mass produced cheap to install systems that could outcompete other options 9 times out of 10. This great report from ACEEE only adds to that:

👀👀👀👀 I wonder if it's low profile could help get more onshore wind in Mass.

Has anyone run the numbers on if the economic benefits of data centers outweigh the economic impact of higher electric rates caused by increased demand? I find it hard to imagine that math is going to math in our favor. #energy

“If we cannot get a ban, we would love if there is legislation that protects people from the worst abuses of the system,” Katan said in an interview. “That would still be a massive win for the people of the commonwealth.”

Third-party suppliers have long used MA’s broken retail electricity market to take advantage of customers. Now with our anti-shopping guide you can tell the companies you shouldn't buy electricity from apart from the companies you really shouldn’t buy electricity from.

Unrealistic deadlines to increase output form heavy industry, is it fair to call this Admin's industrial/energy policy Stalinism With Capitalist Characteristics?

Hey Boston, the sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and DOGE continues to dismantle essential government services. It's a beautiful day to head on down to #TeslaTakedown TODAY Saturday May 3 12pm-2pm 888 Boylston St

This is a great story that highlights why we need legislation to protect solar customers, like S.2264.

#Enron is back in Texas! When they are going to reopen in Mass? I am tired of these third-party electric suppliers quietly going after low-income folks. I want to see these companies commit spectacular, statewide blackout causing, crimes again and I think Enron can get us there.

Eversource, buddy, it is 2025, kindly do not call the EMT (a big piece of LNG infrastructure) an emission reduction tool in your MA climate compliance report.

MA Gas utilties: Our demand is going up so we must build more pipelines. Also MA gas utilties: Our demand will go down and therefore we need state support. They are really blinking with both eyes in some of their filings with the DPU.

One day these predatory companies will be thrown out of Mass and I can stop writing about them. Until then here is another blog outlining how they are bad.

“With a similar climate to Québec, one could reasonably expect the costs of electrifying the winter peak in Massachusetts” is an actual sentence in a report National Grid filed. Utterly disconnected from reality.

Don't make me tap the sign: "Elaborate calculations which are at war with realities are of no avail." - Lindheimer v. Illinois Bell Tel. Co., 1934

National Grid argued in their climate plan that support for renewable natural gas (RNG) will make it more practical because support for wind and solar worked out. This is equivalent to saying, "I worked hard to run a 5 minute mile, therefore if I work hard again I can swim to the moon.”

chef’s kiss

Mass Fiscal says the cost of battery storage procurement needs to be shared between utilties, MLPs, and co-ops...the thing there are no electric co-ops in the Massachusetts. #mapoli #energy

I normally really appreciate @rockymtninst.bsky.social's research, so I was disappointed to see them put out this blog, and not only because I don’t support Clean Fuel Standards (CFS) (more below). #energy

Don't trust salespeople from third-party electric suppliers like Clearview. They'll try to rob you, most of the time figuratively, but in one case in PA they literally stole someone's wallet.

Shocked to see gambling at this establishment.

Energy efficiency programs are a big part of the solution to our energy woes. Their existence benefits everyone financially by decreasing overall costs. blog.greenenergyconsumers.org/blog/behold-...

The biofuel industry is trying to push California's expensive and pro-biofuel Low-Carbon Fuel Standard to the East Coast (including in MA). Glad to see they are fighting it in NY. #energy #mapoli

I wonder how often in the future we will see centralized power grids will be taken out by a disaster and never fully replaced because solar + storage filled some of the gaps faster and cheaper.

Batteries may be the biggest thing to hit the grid since cost-effective solar and wind. It's great to see the DPU in Mass pushing for their deployment.

Capacity markets, which were made to limit political interference in the grid, are now experiencing political interference. Restructuring the electric grid really isn't going well after two decades.

What do we want? Progress toward meeting MA's climate goals! When do we want it? In a timely manner made possible by well-staffed agencies! How do we get it? Funding the relevant agencies! Read about it in this blog:

NEW: Global EV sales grew 18% year-on-year in Jan 2025 Was this due to the "devastating collapse" of 21% growth in Europe? The "stalling" 12% growth in China? Maybe the "plunging" 22% rise in US/Canada? Or "faltering" 50% rest-of-world growth…? Data: Rho Motion 🤷‍♂️

Turns out that centuries of economic thought are correct: increasing the supply of a good will, all things being equal, lower the price of the good. Weird that people talk themselves out of this obvious insight when it comes to housing.

Best part of bill-reading season is finding out which offices are willing to have fun with their names: SD.766 An Act relative to the Bean New Deal

This is great news for everyone who wants to see power go tangle uses, like heating homes, at an affordable price.

(Thread) MA's wicked high electric rates are in large measure due to the fact that time and time again the Commonwealth makes policy choices which increase rates but stay in place because the benefit special interests. Third-party supply being the most blatant case.

China's need to invest massive amounts of capital in new projects to keep their economy going may just save the world. Those solar numbers are wild.

We've heard this before with oil and coal, but soon, we will find new deposits of kids in Alaska or the deep ocean, and things will be fine.

Great story covering the fight over potential state support for biofuels in Mass. It's always nice being an advocate and making specific claims about a topic backed up by extensive research and then seeing industry groups not really have a response except vaguely gesturing at nothing.

The techno-reactionary faction of Trumpism battling the ethno-reactionary faction on high-skill immigration will end as a Night of the Long Spoons as Marc Andreessen representing the alliance of Finance & Tech Capital sacrifices Musk in exchange for the right of corporations to issue private visas

We don't know nearly as much about the health effects of using biofuels in home heating as we should, as I outline in this report I wrote for Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility.