Blake Shaffer 📊🇺🇦
@bcshaffer
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prof @EconCalgary working on climate policy and electricity markets. Former energy trader. Not here much anymore. You can find me where the Sky is Blue :)
Calgary
Joined January 2012
🚨Call for Papers🚨 Announcing the 4th Annual Electricity Camp in the Rockies! Mix of researchers, practitioners and policy makers sharing research and insights on all things electricity. Plus (optional) hiking! See here for more info:
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It's always been part of the national vision. The barriers are still there, waiting to be overcome. But the benefits---and urgency---have grown. Forget America; it's time to build the east-west power grid. By me, in Macleans today: https://t.co/6EOj4RGk9I
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For decades, we've prioritized electrical trade with the United States. It's time to reduce our dependence on them.
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Literally the only time NATO's Article V was invoked was after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, leading other nations to join the U.S. in the Afghanistan war.
Trump on NATO: If the United States was in trouble and we called them and said we've got a problem. You think they're going to come and protect us? I’m not so sure
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If you’ve called Trudeau a traitor and then you turn around praising the idea of Canada becoming a “51st state” then I hate to break it to you…
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I’ve mostly left Twitter but just popping in to say @trevortombe is a role model for doing public service as an intellectual. He informs, objectively, with evidence and clarity. We could all strive for more Trevor and less ad hominem disinfo that has no place in public debates.
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Donald Trump — the twice impeached former president, Jan. 6 coup leader, convicted felon, adjudicated sexual abuser, and man who mismanaged the 2020 economic implosion and coronavirus disaster that killed more than 1 million people in this country — has convinced American voters
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Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.
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What a headline…
NEW: The first North Korean forces have likely officially engaged in combat against Ukrainian troops in Kursk Oblast. (1/3)
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Hello @shinynew_oz , Xitter wouldn't let me DM you w/out being mutual follows. Could you follow back (or send email?) as I'd like to invite you to my May 2025 electricity conference in Banff :) Thanks!
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Some news out of Alberta's power market today. Having gone from extremely high prices to a supply glut leading to an extended outlook of low prices, Transalta is responding by announcing they are mothballing Sundance 6, a 400MW coal-to-gas simple cycle plant, for up to 2 years.
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Taking my mind off **TERRIFYING ELECTION** by charting electricity data :) Check out BC's electricity trade with it's neighbour, Alberta. In 2024, BC imported record volumes (3700 GWh) at a lowly price of $37CAD while still opportunistically exporting (at $226/MWh).
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We're searching for an Assistant Professor in Environmental Policy. Application deadline: December 10. Details here: https://t.co/9o3C1C438u
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I'm super happy to announce that @TSEinfo will hire an environmental economist on this year's economics job market. Apply here https://t.co/NC5nZUzyvI before Nov. 17th. Come and join our amazing group of environmental economists:
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The environmental group at TSE gathers researchers, professors, postdocs, and PhD students working on issues ranging from carbon pricing to animal welfare. We organize a variety of scientific...
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We all face moments when things feel overwhelming, and that’s okay. Remember, you are not alone.
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If i'm reading this right, the allocation of "O&G-specific GHG cap and trade permits" will be based on 2026-2029 firms' production levels. So firms now have a federal incentive to produce more O&G for the next 5 years to get a higher allocation. Source: https://t.co/TS7euKMstf
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The greatest limiter to clean energy abundance is not building cheap clean power generation or electrifying end-uses. It’s the grid itself. It’s getting really really expensive yet somehow also sucks at connecting new supply and demand. Three super productive levers IMO:
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World’s largest transformer maker warns of supply crunch
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AI data centre demands and renewable energy’s dispersed nature are driving equipment orders for power grid upgrades
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The most bonkers resolution, which seeks to prevent the UN from “transferring Crown lands to First Nations, and then revising international law to seize the land from the First Nations,” passed. Not one person spoke against it.
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@NatObserver Resolution 16, which says the government should only allow male or female options for sex on government documents, passes.
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