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Join the
#energytwitter
#energymastodon
directory! I use it to create the unofficial official
#energytwitter
list and it's a great way to connect with colleagues from around the world (and beat the algorithm). Like, share, repost!
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Just a reminder of perhaps the best electric vehicle advertisement of all time, from Nissan.
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I can't overstate how big of a deal it is for Ford and GM to partner with Tesla on a standardized electric plug. For about a decade, we've been in a Beta Max vs VHS battle for EV chargers. Here's a 🧵 of history for folks just now tuning in...
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@corbtt
I've read an H100 uses 700 watts.
100k of them would be 70 MW.
That's about as big as a small solar or wind farm.
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Dispare and hopeless exist when folks aren't empowered. The constant singular focus on federal issues in the news cycle make "change" seem remote, unreachable. Folks, I have a great story to share. Five years ago, I helped save my city $120m. And like, 50 ppl know.
Thread...
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utilities: sign this NDA before we tell you where our transmission facilities are, and pay us to do a background check because it's CEII oh and competitive trade secret
Dept. of Homeland Security: Download this sweet Google Earth file! :D
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While everyone is focused on ERCOT, let's check out this one incredible thing: solar and wind, diurnally opposite, working together to keep the lights on. We've said it for years, and it's happening.
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For the past two years, Entergy Arkansas hasn’t sent me an electric bill. The last bill I got from them was from July 2021 for a negative $32.70. Then a couple weeks ago, they sent me a bill for $4,125.66. Yikes. Let's talk bills and utility responsibilities in a thread...
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FERC and NERC staff presented their initial recommendations from their joint inquiry into the widespread electric outages last Christmas, which include completing development of winterization standards and improving reliability of natural gas infrastructure.
@JDowning37
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@elonmusk
@engineers_feed
My son recently asked what a kilowatt hour is. This is what I came up with.
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Getting her an engagement ring for Christmas?
- predictable
- no element of surprise
- perhaps, too romantic
- easily lost/broken
Getting her an HVDC transmission line for Christmas?
- instant shock and awe
- will never see it coming
- 80+ yr of firm power
- massive hedge
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"Simon, what's this all about alcohol, milk and electric transmission?" Sit back, I have a story to tell. And it's a doozie.
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Hey nonprofits, huddle up.
Women are notoriously underpaid for performing the *same job* as a man.
You know how we fix it?
Post the salary in the job description.
Post the salary.
For the love of justice, post the salary.
That is the MINIMUM we can do.
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lol, this is why you don't use goats for your solar weed control
📢 sound on 📢 - enjoy these 2 baby goats dancing to AC/DC on solar panels to get your Labor Day weekend started.
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Oh no, my 9 year old wants to know what a kilowatt hour is.
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I've seen a lot of headlines this past week: "Texas is connecting to the rest of the US grid!"
Hold your horses. A few things need to be made clear about the Southern Spirit high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission project a bit deeper than headlines...a thread
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The US arguments between nuclear/renewable advocates often misses a key point: timing and scale. Renewables are commercially available today and getting deployed. New nuclear reactors aren't. Utilities don't expect new nukes until 2035. Keeping good existing nukes running and…
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No energy expansion will help prices *today*. Federal oil leases/Keystone XL (10yr process), nuclear build out (15+ yr), even renewables (2-5 yrs) take time to build. But the costs (human and monetary) today *are* a result of how we planned 10-20yrs ago. We must do better.
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Very cool data: Electric vehicle miles travelled per 1,000 residents
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A gallon of gasoline contains 120,000 BTU to have you travel maybe 30 miles. 1 kilowatt hour of electricity is equal to 3,412 BTU, and will carry you 3-4 miles. 120,000 BTU for gasoline vs 34,120 BTU for electric. This isn't even close.
#energytwitter
#electrifyeverything
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The middle part of the US is getting 63% of its power from wind energy *right* *now*. Data via Southwest Power Pool.
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@ejaculationboss
@hankgreen
They're on different time horizons. If my car breaks down today, a walkable community in 20 years doesn't matter. (I need the car to attend city planning meetings!)
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Psst
If you burn hydrogen
You still emit pollution
Thems the hard NOx
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@KHayhoe
Henry Ford used horses to create the Model T.
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." - Maya Angelou
It's called the Nirvana Fallacy - that unless the solution is 100% perfect, the status quo prevails.
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Not everyone can afford an electric vehicle! That's why America's
#1
selling vehicle for the past 45 years has been and will continue to be this cheap car. Woo savings!
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Right now, 60% of the Heartland's electricity is coming from wind farms.
#normalizereality
#energytwitter
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Recently
@johnffarrell
had a great thread on not needing any new transmission. A lot of folks found it really interesting, so I thought I'd offer a friendly academic rebuttal: YES WE NEED MORE TRANSMISSION (thread)
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Me watching every post-apocalyptic movie where society has collapsed:
Uh, how does the electricity still work?
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Let's talk about solar. It gets a bad rap for only working when the sun is out, but is that a big deal? A fixed tilt solar array is facing a single direction, all day, all year. It limits the output. The industry has been mostly installing "trackers", which tilt the panels…
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Hey folks, as part of the infrastructure bill passed earlier this year, the Department of Energy will be able to help communities with less than 10,000 people improve their energy infrastructure. thread...
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I still vividly recall the first LED "bulb" I held at a GreenFest in DC in '04. The LED was hand crafted, cost $40. "This will never work," I thought. Too expensive, looked like a fire hazard, seemed complicated. Now you can get LED's at Costco for $1. What happend? 1/5
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After spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on production cost modeling and transmission expansion analysis, I've come up with this alternative map
"A clean electricity future for the US will require massive development of the bulk transmission infrastructure."
@EnergySystemsIG
's new report supports a proactive approach to transmission expansion and provides recommendations for a
#macrogrid
design.
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who solves climate change?
I don't know who needs to hear this, but relying on the government to solve climate change is a really bad idea
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There ya have it folks, MISO saved TVA from having worse blackouts and helped keep the lights on at Southern Company during Winter Storm Elliott, thanks to wind power and transmission (gas failed).
#energytwitter
#energymastodon
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Look at what my wife put together for my birthday. A Settlers of Catan smorgasbord!
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THIS BOARD GAME HAS HEAT PUMPS, WALKABLE COMMUNITIES, OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES, LONG RANGE TRANSMISSION, AND CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS
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Wanna see what the US grid frequency looks like when a nuke plant (Millstone 3) trips offline? Pretty incredible.
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This middle part of the US is getting 67% of its power from wind farms *right now*, today, St. Patrick's day in 2022. The dark purple shows power prices have gone negative; we need more transmission to move cheap power out! via
@SPPorg
#energytwitter
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The first 23 minutes of everyone's morning on
#energytwitter
should be this John Oliver piece featuring materials from our very own
@kyrib
@RobGramlichDC
@DrChrisClack
@cohan_ds
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can I get a fact check on this:
No coal-fired power plant has economically added carbon capture sequestration and worked efficiently in the U.S., ever.
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We got our power back on!
33 hours in subfreezing temperatures.
Excuse me while I go make some coffee.
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I'm totally digging the F150 Lightning press.
But let's be totally clear.
If you're going to buy an EV, especially a big truck, you should really, really invest in upgrading your home's electric panel to 200 amps+.
While you're at it, get a heat pump.
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This morning, I filed a formal complaint with Arkansas Public Service Commission. It's a broader problem than just me. The Rules/Rates are there to protect the public. Chances are, 99% of people don't know they're there. And I only know about it because I'm an energy nerd.
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Energy density *does not matter*
If density mattered, utilities would be building coal and nuke plants nonstop. No one is. Because it isn't a metric used in the electric industry. It's just used by academics.
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So Texas' connection with the rest of the US is being fought by Entergy Mississippi, in part because they don't want their natural gas plants to have to compete against Texas' power. The hurdle isn't FERC nor the feds. It's incumbent utilities opposing competition.
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It's just stunningly beautiful, wind and solar working together to save Texas.
I look forward to the day we can add in EV's, batteries, geothermal...a symphony of clean energy.
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HAPPY ATB DAY! What is ATB Day, you ask? Well, it's the most magical time of the year for energy geeks. The National Renewable Energy Lab publishes the Annual Technology Baseline (ATB) every year covering a whole bevy of generation technologies. Let's take a look! 🧵
#ATBday
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New Chevy Bolt EV for $18k?
Yeah, it's a thing.
#electrifyeverything
#ElectricVehicles
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Burning natural gas in an efficient power plant and using a home heat pump is more efficient than burning natural gas in a home for home heating.
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Hey,
@ivanlpenn
and
@nytimes
, not sure if you knew but uh, regional transmission organizations and wholesale energy markets aren't the same thing as deregulation.
Also...yikes
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EVERYONE ON
#ENERGYTWITTER
, STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING, RIGHT NOW!
@NREL
has released their 2019 Annual Technology Baseline. Time to update your cost estimates and models for renewables! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
That is all.
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How do utilities plan for more renewables? Glad you asked. It's called an integrated resource plan, or IRP. IRP's are essentially complicated math problems, forecasting into the future, sometimes up to 20 years. I'll use Entergy Arkansas' latest IRP as an example. 1/
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Tbh, this is absolutely the right call. Social media data centers should absolutely be shed before residential load.
NEW: Twitter was forced to shut down its entire Sacramento data center due to extreme heat, and warned internally that if another data center goes down it could result in Twitter outages for some users, because Twitter is now in a "non-redundant state":
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Proud to have played a small part in getting this done.
#energytwitter
MISO's board approved 18 new transmission lines today, enabling 53,000 MW of new, low-cost renewable energy projects.
A big milestone, as it's the single largest transmission expansion enabling clean energy in 🇺🇸 history.
But much more still needed.
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The average US new vehicle price now is $47k. Nearly all new cars are similar in price to EV's. EV sales increased nearly 50% last year from 1.6% to 2.9% of total market.
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Happy vaLENTines day/Ash Wednesday! I got my wife a new solar panel system. 9.2kW here in Arkansas!
This is now our second home we've had solar installed. Back in '12 we had 5.5kW installed in Louisiana. This new system costs less than that one did and is nearly 2x bigger!
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This is just silly. Georgia PSC staff asked Georgia Power for generation values for a power plant. Georgia Power redacted all the numbers because "trade secret". But the data are available publicly via the FERC Form 1. Gaston generated 2.7 billion kWh last year at $86.6/MWh.
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Had a dream last night I was touring inside a floating 45 MW offshore wind turbine. Took an elevator up to the generator with a group. Passed a barber shop and dentistry inside the turbine on the way up.
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Most folks opposed to renewable energy use the average capacity factors as a "gotcha" - solar only produces 25% of the time! wind is at best 45%!
these are not serious people
Natural gas combustion turbines often are <10% capacity factor on an annual basis.
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wow your friends and amaze your family!
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After years of work, and numerous model runs, I'm finally publishing my work on
#energytwitter
and one possible alternative optimization scenario. Some said it could never be done. Some say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
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When I send in physical copies to Commissions, I like to use these paper clips.
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What's your controversial
#energytwitter
take? Mine: if you've got LED's, turning the lights out isn't that important for saving energy. And leaving your TV/computer on is nbd.
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New report from
@USCleanPower
: 46 new clean energy manufacturing facilities have been announced since the Inflation Reduction Act was passed.
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in a rare turn of events,
@Ford
has won the
#energytwitter
MVP award this week
We’ve been trying to get you all comfortable with EVs for a while now, but maybe we were just speaking the wrong language.
A THREAD 🧵
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Impressive! Heat pump all-in-one washer/dryer that runs on a 120v socket. It's expensive at $2,900, but you don't need to install a new 240v line, nor buy two appliances.
Just got my new washer/dryer combo by
@generalelectric
this thing is not only ventless but it also runs off a 120 outlet.
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Are you concerned about your stove?
You've got range anxiety.
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At the Georgia Power IRP hearing today. Public comment is occurring and this high school sophomore is describing the benefits of the Inflation Reduction Act in reducing renewable energy costs.
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Good morning
#energytwitter
! Today is my birthday. Thanks for making the past year educational and fun. Things are looking up! Have a piece of cake or libation of your choice. And drop a gif/meme below =-)
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there ya have it folks, grid and transmission making its way into state elections
#energytwitter
Instead of hoping the power grid holds up, let’s fix the grid so we know it'll hold up.
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The Southeast blackouts that happened b/c of Winter Storm
#Elliott
are going to cause a lot of soul searching because we don't have enough renewables to blame the outages on.
Read that again.
#energytwitter
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Hot take:
If your explanation of Texas' power outages are single words ("windmills!", "deregulation!", "Republicans!"), you're wrong.
It's easy and comforting to pick one single cause. Heuristics. It's also lazy and won't create the real solutions necessary for improvement.
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Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announces two new Wind Energy Areas in the Gulf of Mexico - one off Lake Charles, Louisiana; another off Galveston, TX. Could each power 740k and 2.1m homes respectively.
#energytwitter
@BOEM
#offshorewind
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Happy Birthday to all the other March babies, and other cool people born in 1984. This is 39!
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Holy cow. Entergy Mississippi is requesting MISO approval for three Expedited Projects Review.
$79.5m for a 230kV substation for a new 267MW load
$44.5m for a 230kV substation for a new 267 MW load
$158m(!) for a new 500kV substation for a 537MW (!) load
1.1 GW of new load!
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It's $12k for a Tesla Powerwall with 13.5kWh capacity.
I can charge for free at night, and my day peak price is $0.19/kwh.
It'd "earn" $2.57/day and take about 4,669 days to repay the cost, or almost 13 years.
The warranty is for 10 years.
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National Renewable Energy Lab with some new analysis on 100% clean energy by '35. They have cases including more/less transmission and more/less constrained. And land use isn't as big of a deal as we thought. We've got options, folks!
#energytwitter
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@SenJohnKennedy
This was also epic
MUST WATCH: Republican
@SenJohnKennedy
asks one of
@realDonaldTrump
’s US District Judge nominees basic questions of law & he can’t answer a single one. Hoo-boy.
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prompt: electric transmission power lines with mardi gras beads as wires
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When I lived in Louisiana, and I mentioned renewable energy, seemingly everyone came out of the woodworks to talk about how offshore wind would be great for the state - BY PUTTING TURBINES ON TOP OF OLD OIL RIGS.
When I tried to explain to folks that that's not how it works, I…
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Folks reading the NYTimes piece on how FPL built a 176 mile transmission project with virtually no regulatory oversight...guess what? It's probably happening all across the south, because we don't have an independent system operator. brief thread about Georgia...
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Anyone get the feeling our electric system is held together with bailing twine and duct tape?
#energytwitter
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Bitcoin miners: We're helping the grid and using renewables! You should celebrate us! We love transparency!
Also Bitcoin miners: HOW DARE YOU ASK US FOR (checks notes) DATA.
BIG BRREAKING:
#Bitcoin
miners begin receiving letters from the EIA forcing them to report sensitive data.
The miner who received this letter only has 10 days to respond to the request by the EIA or face huge fines or worse!
Fortunately, we have a plan on how to fight back,…
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