2/2 Another dual use of space to applaud. Go Huskies! 🔌💡 www.edtechinnovationhub.com/news/univers...

1/2 As we debate the safety of BESS facilities in our state, a reminder of the havoc that that natural gas pipeline leaks can wreak. Energy safety needs to be improved everywhere. 🔌💡 cowboystatedaily.com/2025/11/19/n...

2/2 A quiet article by MCR favorite @phoebeskok.bsky.social explores battery manufacturers following the model of chip makers when posed with the question I got at Apple all the time - "Can you make it scale?" 🔌💡 www.ess-news.com/2025/11/20/t...

1/2 2 nerdy ones today. From @andrewrynhard.bsky.social: Security on the edge of our grid...a case for immutable OS systems. If your neck has ever been on the line for the infosec of your systems (like mine has been) then you will appreciate this article. 🔌💡 www.utilitydive.com/news/utility...

2/2 @phoebeskok.bsky.social This Concordia University study is focused on a "scalable, holistic approach to sustainable food production and distribution within neighborhoods". They had me @ solar sidewalks!!! @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social - did you see this? 🔌💡 pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/20/s...

1/2 To my market savvy friends I ask: Are we seeing a market consolidation in the face of regulatory headwinds? 🔌💡 pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/20/m...

2/2 Speaking of politics, this Ohio YIMBY effort is worth following. From @canarymedia.com This issues putting the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and Richland County Citizens for Property Rights and Job Development on the same side. 🔌💡 www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

1/2 I normally focus on the economic aspect of the green energy. But you can't ignore the politics. Or can you? I JUST got done explaining this about Texas to some of my colleagues, glad to see I'm not alone. 🔌💡 www.utilitydive.com/news/texas-i...

2/2 From my old neighborhood. "The microgrid and pending EV bus delivery bring the VTA one step closer to satisfying California’s mandate that all public transit agencies transition to 100% zero-emission bus fleets by 2040." 🔌💡 www.microgridknowledge.com/microgrids/c...

1/2 Smart water heaters...wish my Mom was around to see this. “The system is 100% grid-independent, providing critical energy resilience. Even during a blackout, it continues to deliver hot water”. "Hey Mom, told you so!" ❤️🔌💡 pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/13/c...

2/2 In the meantime, on Planet Earth. Governments and companies shift towards recovery rates vs just volume. "Australian projects are pursuing even higher recovery rates, targeting above 95% for silver, copper, silicon, and glass." Thinking ahead, very smart. 🔌💡 pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/29/p...

1/2 Two forward looking posts today. Musk: "A large solar-powered Al satellite constellation would be able to prevent global warming by making tiny adjustments in how much solar energy reached Earth". This is real sci-fi stuff. Would it work?💡🔌 pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/e...

3/3 "the primary driver behind Pine Gate’s downfall appears to be its approach to owning and operating its own engineering, procurement, and construction division, Blue Ridge Power". They got stuck with unsellable projects not even to the hyperscalers. 🔌💡 www.latitudemedia.com/news/what-ha...

2/3 Meanwhile Shell goes the other direction. "Shell has agreed to sell “a substantial portion” of its Volta electric vehicle charging network to Australian charger manufacturer Jolt. The deal includes thousands of media-enabled EV chargers (not a fan)." 💡🔌 💲 www.utilitydive.com/news/shell-s...

1/1 SunPower looks to stay profitable in 2026. T.R. Rodgers, chief executive officer, SunPower. “Right now, due to the 2026 forecasted 13% [Investment Tax Credit] reduction, the industry is consolidating.” 💡🔌 💲 pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/12/s...

3/3 @maeveallsup.bsky.social of @latitudemedia.bsky.social does a great job of explaining the intricacies of the Texas Energy Fund and the challenges facing gas projects largely due to a "data center-fueled run on turbines" saying "The math isn’t working" 💡🔌 www.latitudemedia.com/news/how-the...

2/3 Not sure I'll be around to see if DNV got this one right. "Almost half of all global solar capacity will be co-located with storage by 2060, compared to around 2% today" but I hope they do. 🔌💡 pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/21/n...

1/3 I found this short "explainer" about Back of the Meter (BTM) solar from Ryan Kennedy, summarizing a 2024 paper by @mzjacobson.bsky.social professor of civil and environmental engineering, Stanford University to be both illuminating and entertaining. 🔌💡 pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/16/w...

3/3 China: "Highway solar projects have expanded from service-area rooftops to slopes, medians and tunnel entrances...installed capacity reached 1.7 GW, accounting for 76% of distributed renewable power in the transport sector" Or you can have ice plant. 🔌💡 www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/23/c...

2/3 My friends in Idaho and Montana will love this. Nitish Mathur, SVP of customer experience: “With the launch of our off-grid solution, we are giving homeowners a reliable path to complete energy independence”. 💡🔌 pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/30/e...

1/3 Storage Jerry. "Should the forecast bear out, the U.S. will have roughly three times more battery capacity in 2030 than it does now." President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act left incentives for battery storage relatively untouched" 🔌💡 www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat...

4/3 From @washingtonpost.com an entire article about V2G that doesn't mention V2G. Pilot program participant Brian Foreman said "he made about $400 in profit selling energy from his EV battery to the power grid on weekdays between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m." 💡🔌 www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

3/3 I don't usually post EV news I leave that to @jdeely.bsky.social but I thought this was cool. An EV with an expandable Solar roof that generates energy whether the car is driving or parked. w0w! 🔌💡 www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/27/n...

2/3 A vote for Pumped Hydro Energy Storage (PHES) from ISES. The plan:"No new dams on rivers are needed... Reservoir walls are built by scooping rock from the bed of the reservoirs...scoop more rock to make the walls a bit higher." Worth a look. 🔌💡 pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/30/u...

1/3 Any SolarEdge (SEDG) fans out there? "The company announced a partnership with Infineon to produce solid-state transformers designed to power AI datacenters." "The company’s stock price is up over 25% in the trading session following the earnings call." 🔌💡 pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/s...

3/3 Made in the USA. From @solaranne.bsky.social "Until now the United States couldn’t meet its own demand for solar ingots, wafers and cells, but that changed with Corning’s announcement of an ingot and wafer manufacturing facility in Hemlock, Michigan." 💡🔌 pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/29/e...

2/3 More bad news for gas. Cassady Craighill, technical education director at GridLab provides gas vs solar cost analysis and concludes: "relying exclusively on new gas is far from a wise path out of the energy affordability wilderness." 🔌💡 www.utilitydive.com/news/natural...

1/3 I mentioned Electricity Prices vs Inflation on Sunday. Here's Meris Lutz at Utility Dive with the receipts. 🔌💡 www.utilitydive.com/news/residen...

3/3 More healthcare. We Care Solar Suitcases include a 12V, 20Ah lithium ferrous phosphate battery, 4 high-efficiency LED lights for medical task lighting, 2 12V DC accessory sockets, 2 USB ports, and 2 expansion ports. Works with multiple panels. Great idea! 🔌💡 pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/28/o...

2/3 Some investment news for those of you bullish on clean energy. 🔌💡

1/3 Combing my old world (healthcare) with my current one. From @laist.com Joe Brothman, director of UCI Health general services: "The operation of this campus will have no emissions. The energy that we're utilizing is all green electricity that we're importing.” 🔌💡 laist.com/news/all-ele...

3/3 From @canarymedia.com. More rural communities benefitting from clean energy projects. "An acre of land, after all, may yield hundreds of dollars if devoted to crops but thousands if leased for panels." Also worth reading Eric C in the comment section. 🔌💡 www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

2/3 Flying home Friday I saw many naked roofs. With electricity costs outpacing inflation I wonder why we don't see more of these. Kudos to United Natural Foods "the 6.7-megawatt solar array generates enough electricity to power roughly 1,500 homes annually." 🔌💡 www.utilitydive.com/news/unfi-co...

1/3 Let's take another look at future copper demand with PV Magazine and Wood MacKenzie. "Wood Mackenzie says this growth trajectory seems “certain"" And adds this factoid “Each electric vehicle contains up to four times more copper than a conventional car.” 🔌💡 pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/15/c...

3/3 And finally for today from Ryan Kennedy one of my favorite topics. Smart land use for solar. "This installation is a powerful example of transforming underutilized assets into productive resources." - Eric Potts, managing director of TotalEnergies. 🔌💡 pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/20/c...

2/3 Investment news from @reuters.com. "U.S. power consumption, stagnant for over a decade, is forecast to grow sharply. With gas turbines in short supply and nuclear years away, solar-plus-storage is emerging as the only scalable short-term solution." 25 months? 🔌💡 www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

1/3 From @rachelmetea.bsky.social news of New Mexico's first community solar project ready to go live. "Low-income households can sign up for free and will save around 20% on their electric bills with no long-term contracts." 🔌💡 pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/02/a...

Stop the presses! @latitudemedia.bsky.social "Idaho Power Company asked Oregon state regulators to slash electricity prices by nearly 1% for ratepayers across the board." Shutting down a costly unit of a 522MW coal plant, removed costs to provide the cuts. 🔌💡 www.latitudemedia.com/news/after-c...

I've been on the road so catching up on interesting articles in my inbox. @canarymedia.com Checkout their graph which shows. in the 1st part of the year, solar generation delivered a record 39% of the state’s generation, while fossil fuels provided just 26%. 🔌💡 www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

Indy Star: The long view pays off for Randolph,IN "millions of dollars have poured into school districts, emergency services, bridge repairs, streets, sidewalks and parks." Andy Fahl, lifelong resident "I’ll be dead and gone, but it will be generational wealth.” 🔌💡 www.indystar.com/story/news/e...

This recent press release ticks all the boxes. - New 50MW/200 MWh battery in Arizona - Behind the meter! - Helping to power a new electric arc furnace at a Nucor steel plant Within five years, we are gonna see batteries everywhere. #WesternGrid #energysky ir.ameresco.com/news-events/...

@reuters.com news of California's solar/battery progress includes this gem: "California's electricity costs have climbed by less than the national average so far this year, posting a 1% rise compared to a 3.3% rise nationally" Natural gas prices up 37% over 2024. 🔌💡 www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

Vernon says YIMBY to new Datacenter. "The city of Vernon operates its own publicly owned utility, Vernon Public Utilities, along with its own power-generating plant... No additional power or water purchases are needed..." insideclimatenews.org/news/0910202...

Two things I love in one article. Positive renewably energy news and Infographics! 🔌💡 www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

It's a beautiful sunny day here in Monterey a good day to post some sunny news. 🔌💡 pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/09/26/u...

@sammyroth.bsky.social On of Mr. Roth's last articles for the LA Times. 🔌💡

More good news for the #WesternGrid #energysky

As we learned in our Duck Curve series: Beth Garza from the R Street Institute: “Wind and solar don’t have to produce 100% of the time because people aren’t consuming all available electricity 100% of the time” 🔌💡 www.utilitydive.com/news/grid-pl...

Yesterday's subject, Peak Energy 's target is "peaker" plants. ESS Inc's focus is long duration energy storage, "its iron flow LDES technology can store up to 12 hours of on-demand, “dispatchable” energy" making them well suited for the baseload space. 🔌💡 pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/02/13/g...

ESS News brings us Peak Energy's Na-ion battery go live. Focusing on the lower costs of Na-ion batteries. Here at @mcresearch.bsky.social being so close to Moss Landing, we're more interested in the possible safety advantages of Na>Li - still an open item. 🔌💡 www.ess-news.com/2025/09/26/p...