Sean Gallagher
@sg-seia.bsky.social
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SVP Policy, SEIA. All posts & reposts solely my own. 🌞☀️
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Doug Lewin
9 days ago
There's a new November electric demand record in Texas. It's 92 degrees in Austin – on November 7. There are 25,000 megawatts-worth of thermal plants offline for seasonal maintenance. Solar + wind providing >50% all day. Could see a battery record this evening.
#txlege
#txenergy
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Interchange Recharged
2 months ago
82% of new US energy capacity = solar + storage. Despite policy headwinds,
@sg-seia.bsky.social
(
@solarindustry.bsky.social
) & Steven Munson (CohnReznick) tell
@solarsylvia.bsky.social
why solar remains the fastest path to new power. Listen now
#EnergySky
#GreenSky
:
www.woodmac.com/podcasts/the...
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Michael Grunwald
3 months ago
The Trump Administration just issued a new order trying to kill solar and wind because they allegedly use too much land. But somehow this new fervor for "capacity density" won't apply to ethanol, which uses 100X as much land as solar per unit of energy.
www.eenews.net/articles/ano...
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Another Burgum order coldcocks solar and wind
The Friday order by the Interior secretary on the “capacity density” of solar and wind projects is the latest in a series of restrictive moves by the Trump
https://www.eenews.net/articles/another-burgum-order-cold-cocks-solar-and-wind/
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Solar and Storage Industry
6 months ago
BREAKING: The House's reconciliation bill would dismantle the most successful industrial onshoring effort in U.S. history, SEIA analysis find. ❌287 factories ❌292,000 jobs ❌145 TWh of generation Read SEIA's new analysis:
underthreat.seia.org/threat/
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Solar and Storage Industry
6 months ago
"If we want to beat China, we need the power, and the way to bring enough power online...is to rely on solar and storage." — SEIA's
@sg-seia.bsky.social
, speaking on the future of energy at
@thehill.com
's Energy & Environment Summit.
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Yeah, enough already with the uninformed hot takes
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7 months ago
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Doug Lewin
7 months ago
"Defense-in-depth" helps protect Texas from a Spain-type power outage. Spain has 60 megawatts of battery energy storage systems; Texas has nearly 200x that amount (11,000). ERCOT also has been proactive on the development of fast-acting ancillary services.
www.douglewin.com/p/besst-in-...
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BESSt in Class
Massive battery resources and far-sighted ancillary services providing "defense-in-depth" help protect Texas from a Spain-type power outage
https://www.douglewin.com/p/besst-in-class
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Justin Mikulka
7 months ago
"Renewables are “cheaper and available right now,” Ketchum said.
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California’s energy prices are too high. Here are some solutions.
seia.org/blog/califor...
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California’s energy prices are too high. Here are some solutions.
Affordability is the biggest issue facing Californians in 2025. The price of most things — housing, childcare, groceries, etc. — has been increasing statewide, and recently, energy prices have taken c...
https://seia.org/blog/californias-energy-prices-are-too-high-here-are-some-solutions/
7 months ago
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8 months ago
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Tor "SolarFred" Valenza
8 months ago
Louisiana solar project goes online with U.S.-made components #energysky -- via pv magazine usa:
pv-magazine-usa.com/...
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Louisiana solar project goes online with U.S.-made components
With McDonald’s as the offtaker for the 180MWdc of solar energy from the Prairie Ronde project, St. Landry Parish community resources will receive funding for education and community development initiatives.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/03/26/louisiana-solar-project-goes-online-with-u-s-made-components/
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Simon Mahan
8 months ago
Right now, these mix of states including Oklahoma, Kansas, parts of Arkansas, Texas, etc. are getting about 60% of their electricity from the wind.
#energysky
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Brendan Pierpont
8 months ago
Building on Tyler’s excellent report below and a range of other resources, our
@energyinnovation.org
team put together a short fact sheet / resource guide on encouraging data center demand flexibility. Check it out here:
energyinnovation.org/report/data-...
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Tyler Norris
8 months ago
Constellation CEO on BloombergTV today: “A new DukeU study indicates we can build 70+ GW of data centers with 0.25% load curtailment… There are opportunities to introduce demand w/out more emitting generation — a big part of the story is load curtailment.” 🔌💡
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Jan Rosenow
8 months ago
Does more renewable energy mean more expensive electricity? The data for the US suggests no.
@hannahritchie.bsky.social
has crunched the numbers for us.
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/us-states-...
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Doug Lewin
8 months ago
There's a new solar record in ERCOT. A few minutes ago, solar exceeded 25,000 megawatts of production for the first time, equaling 52% of demand. Emission free sources (wind, solar, and nuclear) are producing about 75% of power demand today.
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David Roberts
9 months ago
"The senior US Republicans tasked with dismantling Joe Biden’s signature climate policy have enjoyed an investment boom of more than $130bn in the areas they represent thanks to the former president’s law."
www.ft.com/content/e627...
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We Need
#Solar
and Storage to Address the Energy Emergency
seia.org/blog/we-need...
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We Need Solar and Storage to Address the Energy Emergency
Solar and Energy Storage Can Be Built Twice as Fast as Other Technologies
https://seia.org/blog/we-need-solar-and-storage-to-address-the-energy-emergency/
9 months ago
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NEW: Today, SEIA is setting a new target for U.S. energy storage deployment: ⚡700 gigawatt-hours of total installed capacity, and 🔋10 million distributed storage installations. Our economic and energy security depends a strong storage sector. More:
seia.org/news/seia-an...
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SEIA Announces Target of 700 GWh of U.S. Energy Storage by 2030
New whitepaper outlines analysis and policy recommendations to reach storage targets, including 10 million distributed storage systems by 2030
https://seia.org/news/seia-announces-target-of-700-gwh-of-u-s-energy-storage-by-2030/
10 months ago
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Avi Zevin
10 months ago
Hot tip: if you do a google search and hit a 404 page when clicking on a
Whitehouse.gov
link, just add "biden" to the front of the URL: "bidenwhitehouse.gov/XXX"
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Moment of zen
10 months ago
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New
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report
seia.org/research-res...
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Solar Means Business 2024
Solar Means Business tracks U.S. solar photovoltaic (PV) installations that support commercial activities at U.S. facilities.
https://seia.org/research-resources/solar-means-business/
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Doug Lewin
10 months ago
On the coldest day of the winter, solar came within 600 megawatts of setting an all-time record in Texas. It was good enough for 7th all-time and only the 8th time that solar has exceeded 21,000 megawatts of production. (h/t
@gridstatus.io
)
#energysky
#txenergy
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Mike O'Boyle
11 months ago
Curious for thoughts whether it would be insane to rewrite this headline as: "datacenters put other customers at risk if they don't pay for power and infrastructure to cover their explosive demand needs."
www.utilitydive.com/news/explosi...
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‘Explosive’ demand growth puts more than half of North America at risk of blackouts: NERC
“Simply put, our infrastructure is not being built fast enough to keep up with the rising demand,” said John Moura, NERC’s director of reliability assessments and planning analysis.
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/explosive-demand-growth-blackouts-NERC-LTRA-reliability/735866/
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Aimee Witteman
11 months ago
"The long-term trend is that the median income for a household with rooftop solar is getting closer almost every year to that of the median income for owner-occupied households." 🌞 💡🔌
insideclimatenews.org/news/1212202...
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Rooftop Solar Keeps Getting More Accessible Across Incomes. Here’s Why - Inside Climate News
The U.S. market for customer-owned solar has become wider and deeper, across regions and income levels, a new report reveals.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12122024/inside-clean-energy-rooftop-solar-keeps-getting-more-accessible/?utm_medium=email
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James Karst
11 months ago
This is great news. Rooftop solar isn’t just good for the environment. It also saves money. So it should benefit the people who need it most.
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Ben Serrurier
11 months ago
WECC forecasts 20% increase in annual load by 2034, double the forecasted increase from two years ago. Buckle up and get to building.
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thank you for ensuring that this important work is seen
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11 months ago
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Justin Mikulka
almost 2 years ago
"A solar-powered EV is 300 times more efficient than a combustion engine car burning corn ethanol" Check out the slide deck. Any sane society would end the production of ethanol for fuel. What are we doing? Trying to make jet fuel out of it? Why? Our policy makers are easily bribed.
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BLM’s proposal is a big step in the right direction and recognizes the key role solar plays in our energy economy.
#Solar
Industry Responds to @BLMNational Opening 22M Acres of Federal Lands to Solar
www.seia.org/news/solar-i...
almost 2 years ago
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Same. Found some
#climatetwitter
. Where's
#energytwitter
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about 2 years ago
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