Benjamin Hilborn
@BenjaminHilborn
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Conductor of Distributed Energy at @ElasticEnergy_
Victoria | SF
Joined February 2009
Hoping to find more of my people on here. Please namedrop anyone else building for a future that is: Electrified Distributedly powered Regeneratively farmed Built of tight-knit, self-sufficient communities Raising change-making children Exceedingly ambitious & hopeful
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figuring out how to make @interaction and @omidotme work well together this is how i become completely digital
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Remember when the grid wouldn’t be able to handle EVs? Yeah - turns out it can. And nobody is talking about it anymore because of data centers. 1.3 million EVs sold last year. That’s about 80GWh of energy storage. And 16GW of residential load.
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It’s wild how this whole industry just needed a little new demand to get innovative and muscular. We were all just fucking grinding in a drought for 15 years, gasping for drops of sustenance. Now people want our shit for the first time and it’s crazy. Let’s fucking go.
Google will buy power from what may be the first large-scale gas power plant with CCS in the US https://t.co/QlKFqk3k2g Google has previously backed enhanced geothermal, advanced nuclear and long duration storage.
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build the thing, name the thing, then accelerate the thing until the world updates its ontology to include it
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rl irl @ yc today scouting applied-ai talent to teach energy systems to think
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overnighting our head of ops to sf anyone have a free couch/shop floor tn?
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1.2gw of smrs 🤯 maybe Canada was the real electrostate all along
Canada’s new government is putting forward $2 billion to build small modular reactors in Bowmanville, Ontario. This project will draw billions of dollars in new investments, power hundreds of thousands of homes, and create thousands of new high-paying careers.
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if you want a preview, you have 36 hours to find me in person in brooklyn
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big @ElasticEnergy_ announcement coming oct 31st. if you’re in distributed energy, it’s time to get very excited.
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DERs as a whole = faster time to power through active capacity management. Onsite or off.
BESS = time to power solution 👀
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BESS = time to power solution 👀
One of the first US data center BESS deals to accelerate speed to power was just announced - quite significant. https://t.co/IGHC1IfzZC
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fun fact, discord voice chats aren’t blocked by inflight wifi i’m doing a live debug from 30k feet
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you can call me crazy, but I am going to make energy transactive. call it virtual private wires, call it VPP 3.0, call it P2P energy. everything is going to have a battery in it, every battery is going to be grid interactive, and the marketplace will come alive.
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about to spend 48 hours in NYC, who in energy do I need to meet?
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my wife literally uses four comforters at night. time to diy an 8sleep?
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nyc isn’t ready for me elastic is going to blow their minds my own personal dervos
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apple’s “dj” transitions are mostly pure garbage, but everyone once in a while I very impressed.
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Research from Duke University shows that nationwide “demand‐flexibility” programs could deliver over 100 GW of additional capacity by 2030, roughly equivalent to 30,000 utility scale wind turbines. Jigar Shah says this approach is one of the few tools that can be deployed at
theguardian.com
With AI datacenters soaring power bills for households, a policy called ‘demand flexibility’ could help ease grid strain
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