Tony Dutzik
@FrontierTony
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Assoc. Director and Sr. Policy Analyst, Frontier Group, part of @TPINNetwork. Transport, energy and climate policy, mostly.
Boston, MA
Joined August 2013
Our 8th annual State of Renewable Energy dashboard w/@EnvAm is live! Check out how your state ranks in adoption of wind, solar, electric vehicles and more.
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Renewables are on the rise across America. America produces more than three times as much power from solar, wind and geothermal sources as we did 10 years ago – enough to power more than 71.5 million...
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Energy efficiency is one of the unsung public policy triumphs of the last half century. The volume of fossil fuels we might have consumed, but didn't, is overwhelming. This tweetstorm, and our new article, have the details.
50 years ago, American homes were energy hogs -- full of inefficient appliances, leaky windows and poorly insulated walls. Today, thanks to efficiency standards and incentives, we're using less energy - and reaping huge benefits. Here's how: 🧵
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Across America, fossil fuel power plants that were once headed to retirement are being kept alive to serve rising demand (largely, though not entirely, from data centers). Our new post finds that the wave of delayed retirements is growing - threatening our air and climate.
Fossil fuel power plants across the U.S. are getting a new lease on life due to energy demand from data centers. We identified nearly 16,500 MW of capacity at U.S. power plants that will be kept open longer than originally planned.
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america's newest large coal-fired power plant (came online in 2013) has been out since april and isn't expected to be back online until spring, 2027. "A major failure appears to have taken place" per IEEFA
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My Grand Unified Theory of American discontent is that the post WWII period in America was highly highly anomalous in a ton of ways that generations of Americans have seen as "normal" - and view our departure from as a fall.
The average age at first marriage for white males was 27 in 1880. In 1990, it was also 27. The middle of the 20th century stands out as being weird.
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I mean, yeah. But then you’d need to have the debate about societal values and what constitutes the good that the Abundance movement has thus far taken tremendous pains to avoid.
I want a techno-optimism that is focused on human progress, not just pushing the frontier for its own sake.
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Following yesterday's @UCSUSA deep-dive explaining how data centers are raising transmission rates, Bloomberg has a new analysis that connects wholesale energy prices to data centers. Here's the big reveal:
NEW REPORT: In 2024, utilities in 7 PJM states charged ratepayers $4.3 billion for local transmission upgrades built to provide transmission-level service to data centers.
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THURSDAY @ 1 p.m. ET: Join Frontier Group's Tony Dutzik, as well as @GreenAmerica and Green Century Funds to learn how your financial choices can contribute to a cleaner environment. Register at the link below.
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FWIW: I wrote a while ago about Abundance World fascination with flying cars, why they’d be a nightmare at any significant scale, and how the arguments for them mimic the failed promises of automobility.
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New technologies can solve problems - or make them worse. In the chase for technofixes like flying cars, it's important to know when to pump the brakes.
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Our latest. Going solar is good for Pennsylvania schools. And schools going solar is good for Pennsylvania as a whole.
NEW: Solar power on school rooftops in PA could produce as much electricity as is used in 187,000 typical homes, curb air pollution, and cushion school budgets from higher, more volatile power prices. See our new report with @PennEnvironment:
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NEW: Solar power on school rooftops in PA could produce as much electricity as is used in 187,000 typical homes, curb air pollution, and cushion school budgets from higher, more volatile power prices. See our new report with @PennEnvironment:
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Solar power on school rooftops cuts air pollution, provides clean power to our communities, and can save money for schools.
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No they aren't. For the past 20 years, highways are funded by your general fund taxpayer dollars, because the taxes on gas and diesel are nowhere near sufficient for the amount of road construction and maintenance we have to do.
Highways are funded by... taxes on gas and diesel.
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Here's a fact sheet showing just how much pollution these slaughterhouses dump into America's waterways. @EnvAm
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Industrial meat and poultry processing plants dump huge volumes of pollution into America’s rivers, threatening our health and harming our environment. The construction of more slaughterhouses adds...
BREAKING NEWS: EPA Halts Rulemaking to Reduce Water Pollution from Slaughterhouses, Leaving Tens of Millions of Americans at Risk Learn more: https://t.co/OGkrREOB5P
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One reason you would use AI to make an image like this is because anyone with expertise in energy systems, ecology, or urbanism would tell you that nothing in this rendering is physically possible. The plant life, the cooling tower, the buildings/bridges, it's all nonsense.
Cascadian Abundance combines deep environmental commitments, especially around the need for rapid decarbonization, a commitment to urbanism, and a faith in technological solutions to environmental problems.
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What if we collectively decided not to be instantly convinced of the veracity of whatever decontextualised snippets of short-form video are currently going viral? What if we deferred judgement and refused ourselves the instantaneous pleasures of confirmation bias? What then?
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Mark your calendars for Thurs., 9/25, when I'll be joining @GreenAmerica and Green Century for a webinar on Greening Your Finances. Lots of ideas for how to use your power as a financial consumer to support climate action. Join us by registering below.
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Perfect example of Sim City mentality, as if there were one big pool of a video game resource called "water"
The moral panic over data center water usage is out of control. This is just not that much water:
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"Developers have withdrawn plans to build a multibillion-dollar data center in Iredell County, the mayor of Mooresville said Wednesday. ... Now, with the plans pulled, the Earnhardt land will stay as is, at least for the foreseeable future." - @WBTV_News
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The multibillion-dollar center would have been built on land owned by the Earnhardt family.
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it's a critique of bad modeling practices - which are still very much in use - hitched to a PR apparatus designed to manufacture consent for highway expansion projects that oftentimes don't make much sense otherwise.
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the reason anyone talks about "induced demand" at all is b/c a) DOTs sell highway expansion as a cure-all for existing congestion (which it's not) and b) DOTs often treat demand for road transport as exogenous and independent of supply (which it's not, or at least not always)
"Induced demand" has to be one of the worst concepts introduced by urbanists and transit activists. It completely misunderstands simple supply and demand, as well as the actual problems with road widening (its not induced demand!)
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In 2022-2023 the reasoning for why Lithium prices were going to be high for a decade was super compelling. Smart people saying all kinds of smart things. Utterly wrong. The whole episode was my front row seat to learn about how predictable commodity prices are.
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