Aniruddh Mohan
@aniruddh_mohan
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Working in the electricity industry. Views deeply personal.
Washington DC
Joined July 2010
RT @ajbry: Interesting w/r/t non-RTOs possibly benefiting from lack of regulatory certainty and efficiency in RTOs: “For many data center d….
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RT @ShanuMathew93: A power market puzzle: If Big Tech pays $90-100+/MWh for electricity PPAs while power price forwards trade at $50, why i….
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Fantastic recap from @grid_status on how RTOs handled the late June heat wave 2 weeks ago. Heat + data centers + thermal retirements pushed operators to their limits. PJM.-160+ GW first time since 2010s, 4th highest load event ever.- driven significantly by data centers in
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Important, nuanced post . We need more "just because you don't like something doesn't mean it isn't true" in energy policy.
Just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean it isn’t true. I'm not pro-coal, and in addition to the climate and health externalities, by some metrics it’s pretty inefficient. But it offers two big advantages for resilience, especially in the national security context:.
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RT @SiegelScribe: NEW in ME: Permitting pipes back up, as Dems return to table despite GOP’s gutting of solar/wind tax credits under megala….
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RT @loganb: @xiaowang1984 @TheFrackingGuy I have this issue with VPPs every time I do the math on some clever TOU optimization at home: ene….
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RT @IrvingSwisher: It’s funny how many people dismiss nuclear because of uncertainty, cost, and timeline (all fair criticisms), but hand wa….
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RT @duncan__c: @aniruddh_mohan We’re doing this off grid with a bunch of gas generators and solar. The key is the batteries though. Without….
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Fascinating high resolution load data for an AI training data center (50 MW block). Periodic idling & surges.- 6MW to 30MW spike in 290ms(!) .- fluctuating demand followed by drop then spikes again. Why does AI training load vary so much?.- GPUs process data in batches, so power
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Valuable perspective here too from someone who has seen these processes first hand on the developer side.
No. reducing developers options would not speed IX as @aniruddh_mohan implies here. Would simply create a lottery based system were devs resubmit proj each queue cycle just as phase 1 studies are now.
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This is a myth that keeps getting repeated that interconnection studies are taking years, as if RTO/ISO staff are slacking and/or biased against new resources. Interconnection studies are fast. The reason interconnection itself takes years is because of cost allocation.
Now do this everywhere. 90 day interconnection studies. We should NOT accept anything longer. Interconnection should take weeks or months, not YEARS! The status quo is an unjust, unreasonable, anti-competitive barrier to entry.
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SPP adopting a large load interconnection process (HILLGA) that treats load + colocated generation together in planning. Interconnection in 90 days!. Faster study process than ERCOT PUNs as resources not studied w/o each other, relaxes stringency of N-1 scenarios and therefore.
Starting to think that #batteries might go live to buffer loads at #AI campuses in @SPPorg way faster than @ERCOT_ISO. Here's why:. SPP enabling non-firm loads interconnection at hurtling speed.
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RT @HopfJames: Finishing construction of the two Summer AP1000 reactors in South Carolina is gaining interest. The local utility, Santee C….
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RT @BarinEmiliano: @aniruddh_mohan Definitely: most small Tx projects are within time and budget, but larger infra is facing similar issues….
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IMO this story merits attention. GBE is a bellwether for difficulty of building interregional transmission to connect distant resources to load centers. The idea was to bring cheap wind from Kansas to load in IL & MO. Easy on paper. But it's been 15y and no construction yet
🚨 NEWS: Missouri AG has opened an investigation into Grain Belt Express, throwing into question the fate of a clean energy transmission line that appeared to be on the cusp of getting built.
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