Nice to see Brian Schatz making a strong case for climate YIMBYism. Replacing our fossil-driven energy system with clean requires building a lot of things quickly, and moving from an environmentalism structured around saying no to one around saying yes: nytimes.com/2024/08/06/opi…

For generations, West Virginians have powered America. Today, they're doing it again. Meet the workers at the frontier of the clean energy economy — building batteries to power homes and lower families' energy costs.

Imagine a tech CEO you're considering working for or investing in. You reference check him with his former VP of Marketing and they say "unfit to be a CEO, never working with him again". You check with his former VP of Sales who says "should never be a CEO again". Damn, not good

Inflation is back to normal levels, violent crime is near record lows, and the job market is still doing great. It's time to say it: It's Morning in America. noahpinion.blog/p/at-least-fiv…

Philanthropic strategy for funders that want to be correct and look smart: Make electricity planning models less addicted to fossil fuels.

Hey Siri: File this under "why the grid needs multi-day storage" and send it to the consultants who always say we don't need more than 8 hours. nae.edu/File.aspx?id=3…

Scott Burger You don't say x.com/SimonMahan/sta…

📰 Regulatory Policy News!🔋 Yesterday California PUC approved two long-duration storage procurement mandates to meet clean energy and climate goals beginning in 2031. It includes up to 1GW of multi-day storage and up to 1GW of LDES >12 hrs.

Clear the queues!

NERC & the NAE published a report that could have been copy-pasted from our papers at Form Energy. Their recs: Incorporate chronology (8760) & extreme weather in planning, move away from average LOLE metrics, ... Glad this is becoming common knowledge nae.edu/File.aspx?id=3…

Canadian wildfires released roughly as much CO2 as India last year. Climate change exacerbates wildfire risk. This is what we call a negative feedback loop. Courtesy of Heatmap News heatmap.news/climate/canada…

I’m excited to see all the plans for “H2 ready” gas turbines (read: can reduce emissions by ~6% today) start to incorporate the substantial costs of retrofitting pipelines system, BOS, and turbines. Wait what’s that? “H2 ready” was never actually about decarbonization? Oh…

Gas is “firm.” Forced outage rate Is Really Mediocre: Firm. H/t Patricia Levi, PhD

“Firm resources don’t depend on the weather*” *unless it’s really cold or really hot or maybe other temperatures too.

Today in "energy markets are created & not born out of an idealized Smithian invisible hand," TX moves forward w/ subsidized loans for gas generation. Another classic case of clean energy companies seeking handouts from the government... Oh wait... 🙃 powermag.com/texas-moves-fo…

“The fact that Hamas is executing Americans while it continues to hold four Americans hostage, underscores that this is not Israel’s fight alone,” he continued. “This is Israel & the free world together, against the barbarism of Hamas & its patron, Iran.” masslive.com/politics/2024/…