Without action, how “real” are opinions? Do they matter at all?

Robust and competitive free markets are the best optimization we have for lowest cost + contingency Monopoly/centralized planning is incredibly risky

There are plenty of things that are technological achievements, but not economic achievements because they don’t fundamentally improve our ability to get more yield out for the same quantity of resources used

Bummer for canonical energy lore artifacts because the 2006 “Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (just between you and me)” was one of the first things I read that really set me down my path today

Hi, I'm a techno-optimist, which means that I refuse to believe that turning sand into a magic panel that turns sunlight directly into electricity could ever be better than a 70-year-old method for using radioactive rocks to boil water to turn a steam turbine

“I never see you at the club.” I never see you modeling time dependent stochastic processes

Thinking of “firming costs” as a resource characteristic instead of a system characteristic is such a fatal flaw

Dreaming of a better world (Real Time Co-optimized markets w dynamic procurement volumes based on system operating posture)

"Perverse incentives" is an understatement. Performance-based metrics is the way forward. #txenergy #txlege

It’s funny how this has been like a top 3 market efficiency issue since the dawn of PURPA and we still just resort to bandaid solutions

“Failed the due diligence phase” 🙂‍↔️

Nothing ensures suboptimal grid topology quite like colocation of renewables and energy storage