Avi Zevin
@azevin
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#energytwitter enthusiast. personal views etc etc.
Washington, DC
Joined May 2008
Some personal news: Excited to announce the arrival of our new weird babies. https://t.co/FDLskA4dbC
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If you don't have time to read our 17 pages on how DOE's recent effort to kick-start a FERC rulemaking can enable flexibility and speed-to-market, how about this op-ed from Roselle's @MilesFarmer and Sam Walsh and @ClementsFERC?
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.@Energy’s ANOPR could change the way large energy users (e.g. data centers) connect to the grid. This Policy Brief, by Roselle LLP and @ClementsFERC, working with @NichInstitute, unpacks a promising principle in the ANOPR: interconnection for flexible loads should be expedited.
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By the Roselle team (@MilesFarmer @Smaczni Sam Walsh, @GabeDaly @NathanLobel & me) & @ClementsFERC
https://t.co/7BesLVMrxn
nicholasinstitute.duke.edu
In the United States, the current system for interconnecting large electric loads, like data centers, to the grid has left all sides frustrated. Data center developers are mired in slow interconnec...
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If done right, there's potential to drive new supply, enable speed-to-market, and limit ratepayer impacts. But it's complex! FERC launched a lightning-fast comment process. Today @NichInstitute released a brief on what FERC must do to get those benefits.
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Recently the Trump Admin kicked off an important new FERC rulemaking process, positing that interconnection of e.g. AI data centers should be regulated at the federal level, and that regulation should encourage flexibility of operation.
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🚨 NEW REPORT: A major @FERC rulemaking on large load interconnection is likely imminent, and anyone who wants to understand its potential should read @NichInstitute's new brief by @MilesFarmer @ClementsFERC @azevin @Smaczni et al. https://t.co/Lq3ZGcOhpM
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BUT: An ANOPR is a regulatory tool to put ideas out and ask questions. DOE hasn't directed FERC to do anything, expanded FERC's jurisdiction, even proposed anything specific. It's clear where DOE wants things to go. But it will be up to FERC where to go. https://t.co/Ebf1W6pt2d
This notice from DOE directs the FERC to create standardized, fast, and non-discriminatory interconnection procedures for large loads exceeding 20 MW, particularly data centers and AI facilities. It expands FERC’s jurisdiction to large loads (not just generation), and proposes
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Roselle partner @MilesFarmer outlines thoughts on DOE's start of a rulemaking process at FERC on large load interconnection. This is MUCH better than the last time the Trump Admin kicked off a rule making process at FERC (in 2017 aimed at keeping piles of coal around)
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Remain extremely proud of the work the BIDEN Admin did to bring back this plant. Energy abundance.
🇺🇸HISTORY MADE: America is bringing nuclear power plants BACK TO LIFE. The Palisades will unleash 837 MW of 24/7, around the clock power—enough to fuel nearly 1 MILLION homes. Call it what it is: ENERGY DOMINANCE.
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The Pee Wee Herman theory of politics
NEW — I interviewed DOE Sec Chris Wright at Des Moines airport in Iowa about Trump’s efforts to stifle renewables. He told me, “We’re going to get blamed” for rising power prices, which has become a midterms sleeper issue. But he says it’s Dems’ fault
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Woke anti-energy ideology is a hell of a drug
The Energy Department of the United States is confusing itself. Nobody has any idea what the F they’re saying. It’s a combo of stupid and nonsensical. I was told Wright and Burgum were smart and normal. But they’re dumb and dumber and making electricity more and more
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First US nuclear plant opened under Ike, most recent under Biden. Funding 🚀 thx to Infrastructure Law and IRA … so what in the world does this even mean @SecretaryWright?
Nuclear energy is a REALITY thanks to President Trump.
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A bit more on some of that web of red tape here
heatmap.news
Two former Department of Energy staffers argue from experience that severe foreign entity restrictions aren’t the way to reshore America’s clean energy supply chain.
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This is extremely true of the energy sections too. A paperwork and regulatory mess for businesses. Any assertion about this Administration's "deregulation" agenda that does not include this new impenetrable web of requirements is missing a key aspect of the story.
I think one underrated aspect of this bill is that, between work requirement paperwork for Medicaid and the new red tape on Obamacare, it’s simply going to make health insurance a bigger pain in the ass for millions of Americans who do keep their coverage.
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"There is a way to apply a set of carefully crafted restrictions to wean us off Chinese supply chains, but . . . if we scatter rakes across the floor for companies to step on, they will just . . . leav[e] us more reliant on China than before."
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Trying to reduce dependence on Chinese supply chains and bolster U.S. and allied manufacturing makes total sense. But the bill will do the opposite by undercutting U.S. energy supply and manufacturing with a web of unworkable red tape.
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New from me and former DOE colleague Jake Higdon: Congress is killing IRA tax credits in an effort to look "tough on China." But the effect will be the exact opposite.
"In the end we will cede not only our supply chains to China, but also our competitive edge in the race for AI and manufacturing dominance." Former @ENERGY staffers @azevin and Jake Higdon on the danger of the Senate megabill: https://t.co/g0zSmWdT9H
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Also, working on the first restart of a nuclear reactor and saving others from shutting down like Diablo Canyon. Vs how many closed when Donald Trump was president?
Just fwiw, the Biden admin helped finance the first new nuclear facility in the US in a generation. They're very bullish on it and through the IRA and other avenues have put billions of dollars towards deployment.
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