A new version of board game Catan asks players to balance building cities, towns and fossil fuel plants with the risk of climate disaster trib.al/zzrAvrp

Contender for favorite chart of all time: Predictions vs. Reality for solar energy.

The rumors are true, IrregardlessDC is an H street gem, check it out!

WOW! An unnamed Pentagon source is CONFIRMING the SETI report about an unknown radio signal being picked up by American satellites. In addition, radar confirms an object roughly 550 km wide (about 1/4 the size of the moon) heading toward Earth. That's THE PENTAGON confirming!!!

New data on clean energy's growth just came in and it delivered the good news I needed this week. Through May, the U.S. added more than twice as much solar power capacity as it did through the same period last year. There were a few other positive trends in the data: 🧵

this is what the framers wanted: judges — not energy regulators — determining whether "power production capacity" refers to dc power capacity of the generators themselves or ac capacity spit out by the inverter onto the grid

DC Water just announced a Boil Advisory for all of DC. Earlier today, there was a drop in water pressure for the system at the Washington Aqueduct. No health issues found, but out of abundance of caution, DC Water has issued this advisory for all of DC: dcwater.com/about-dc-water…

It’s hard to overstate the surge business establishments in left-behind counties, which now exceeds what the rest of the county was seeing at the *peak* of the pre-COVID business cycle. Absolutely remarkable.

FERC is now back to a full 5-member Commission after a too-long respite. Congratulations to the three newest members -- David Rosner, Lindsay See and Judy Chang!

This filing was done by staff and outside consultants for the commission. I had no prior knowledge of the challenge being filed. I do not support this suit and will object in August to ratifying this decision by staff.

Thank you for hosting Solar and Storage Industry and Solar and Storage Industries Institute last week!

BESPOKE: “.. In inflation-adjusted terms, the current pace of [US] factory investment dwarfs any prior period. Dating back to 1929, there's never been a period of factory construction activity even close to what we're seeing today.” 🇺🇸 Bespoke #USindustrialpolicy

live shot of me revising these comments

Telling myself the reason I can't remember something is that my brain is just tired from carrying around all the lyrics to the "Mr. Belvedere" theme for 3+ decades.

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This northwest Georgia community got in early on the national boom in cleantech manufacturing spurred by the climate law, and it’s reaping the benefits. Reporting by @julianspector: ow.ly/wX0850SWRbI

You know that was Eliot-Hine MS at the DNC!!

“Today, Bureau of Land Management - National opened 31M acres of federal lands to renewable energy development, accepting many of SEIA’s recommendations.” More from Ben Norris, SEIA’s VP of regulatory affairs, on the final environmental review of the Western Solar Plan: seia.org/news/seia-stat…

If you were on the fence about attending RE+ next week, stay tuned for a major new speaker announcement …

North America’s largest renewable energy conference will welcome ⁦Ali Zaidi⁩ this Tuesday! re-plus.com/general-sessio…