Jason Fordney
@FordneyEnergy
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Editor, California Energy Markets; Energy Consultant; Privacy Advocate; Sierra Nevada Dweller; Opinions are my own.
Nevada City, CA
Joined June 2013
After 8 years in California I have a name for a common personality type I encounter here: let’s call it “icy-nice.”
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Big California newspaper prompting me to use facial recognition to log in to their website. Really? Is this where we’re going with this?
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@NERC_Official: Northwest, Other Parts of West at Elevated Reliability Risk in Extreme Winter Weather-- in CEM from @FordneyEnergy
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The Northwest region and other areas of the West are at elevated risk of electric-grid reliability problems in cases of extreme weather this winter, and outside assistance for these regions
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On the latest People in Power podcast, NewsData's Abigail Sawyer and Brian Turner of @AdvEnergyUnited and the West Wide Governance Pathways Initiative launch committee discuss the renewed possibility of a seamless, westwide power market.
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Kim Rush of NW Natural Gas saying wind, solar and batteries won’t be sufficient for multi-day cold weather events but gas should not be used irresponsibly.
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Lots of discussion at our Lunch and Learn right now about critical natural gas needs in the NW and insufficient supply and pipeline capacity to meet rising demand. Lots of alarm bells being rung up there.
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I’m not exaggerating when I say that turning on a small portable electric heater in California feels extravagant.
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My 11-year-old daughter’s new thing is secretly livestreaming me just going about my day to her friends and apparently it’s the most hilarious thing ever.
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This is insanity. We’re not going to have writers and authors anymore because some bot is going to be taking over this critical cultural role that has existed for thousands of years? What are we doing? We’re just going to delete our souls and turn them over to computers?
Microsoft just dropped a study showing the 40 jobs most at risk by AI and the 40 most secure.
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Something interesting about spontaneous bar conversations- there is an expectation the other party will agree with a stated position or opinion. Differences are usually smoothed over amicably. It’s basically the opposite of interacting online.
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Ivanpah maybe staying open after all?
Alert: @californiapuc Poised to Reject PG&E (@PGE4Me) Request to End Ivanpah Contracts, Possibly Keeping It Open-- in CEM from Hanna Grover (@hmgrover)
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Climate Change Conversation Becomes More Nuanced as Trump Seizes on Gates Comments-- in CEM from Editor Jason Fordney
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In the run-up to the United Nations’ COP30 conference on climate change in Belém, Brazil, the conversation around climate is getting a bit more nuanced as leaders work to push
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News Alert: A Half-Dozen Utilities Leave Western Resource Adequacy Program Under Imminent Deadline-- in CEM from Ayla Burnett
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A slew of utilities announced their departure from the Western Resource Adequacy Program (WRAP) within a week of WRAP’s Oct. 31 deadline to commit as financially binding participants.
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WWGPI Launch Committee Issues RFP for Selection of Independent Board, Key Staff--in CEM from Editor @FordneyEnergy
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A group developing a regional organization that would govern a future Western day-ahead market is looking for an outside firm to select board members and key staff for the new
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It’s noon and I have received 7 spam calls today. This is ridiculous. I get more spam calls than actual calls.
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Keep in mind that artificial intelligence was fed by people making actual keystrokes (That it now serves up as its own original content). I guess that will he one and done and it will take over from there.
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@California_ISO Developing New Set of Interconnection Process Enhancements-- in CEM from Editor @FordneyEnergy
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California’s grid operator launched a new proposed set of revisions to its interconnection process for new resources, saying more changes are needed to alleviate clogged queues and bring new projects
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How come EVs don’t have solar panels to charge batteries like my RV does? 🤔
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After a couple of decades covering energy I still can’t really think of another term for the voraciously over-used “stakeholder.” “Market participants” sometimes works, but not always.
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