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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 15h

America’s biggest offshore wind farm will be online in six months.
"Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW project off Virginia’s coast is progressing fast. The utility has a new, more definitive target to plug into the grid: March 2026." Via @canarymedia.com
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America’s biggest offshore wind farm will be online in six months

Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW project off Virginia’s coast is progressing fast. The utility has a new, more definitive target to plug into the grid: March 2026.

www.canarymedia.com

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 1d

Probably a couple hundred million (at least $151b according to Open Secrets but that's just the most direct and easy to trace www.opensecrets.org/industries/i... )

Oil & Gas Summary

Opensecret's money profile for the Oil & Gas industry/interest group. See contributions and lobbying history.

www.opensecrets.org

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 1d

It's not. Yet. It's like one large utility scale battery project at 25 MW / 100 MWh scale. Data center developer Eolian is deploying 1,800 MWh of Tesla Megapacks at a single site in Texas apparently!! x.com/Tesla_Megapa... But Base Power is getting rolling. We'll see how fast they can scale.

Tesla Megapack on X: "Megapacks are landing in Texas with the expansion of Eolian's Padua project. Once complete, the 1.8GWh project will enable improved grid utilization to support growing electricity demand https://t.co/C00sriHfIx" / X

Megapacks are landing in Texas with the expansion of Eolian's Padua project. Once complete, the 1.8GWh project will enable improved grid utilization to support growing electricity demand https://t.co/C00sriHfIx

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Michael Noble @nobleideas.bsky.social · 1d

PODCAST: Always listen to Shift Key.

Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 1d

If you want to understand what's going on with China's electricity system and emissions goals, don't miss this one!

Heatmap News @heatmap.news · 2d

NEW on this week's Shift Key, @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social and @jessedjenkins.com talk with UC San Diego's @michaeldavidson.bsky.social about China's climate progress, how its electricity markets work and what to make of those coal subsidies.

Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts:

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 1d

Construction begins this week on a new, upgraded AirTrain at Newark Liberty Airport. The 2.5 mile system is "expected" to cost $3.5 billion and complete in... 2030! 🤦‍♂️https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/outdated-newark-airport-build-3-214920061.html

5 years for 2.5 miles. Just amazing work America.😕

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 1d

Some DIY people have hacked their chargers but haven't seen any practical solutions for my program. I recently moved so now have to go through expense of installing whole new charger and 220V circuit again...

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 1d

If you want to understand what's going on with China's electricity system and emissions goals, don't miss this one!

Heatmap News @heatmap.news · 2d

NEW on this week's Shift Key, @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social and @jessedjenkins.com talk with UC San Diego's @michaeldavidson.bsky.social about China's climate progress, how its electricity markets work and what to make of those coal subsidies.

Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts:

How China’s Power Grid Really Works

Podcast Episode · Shift Key with Robinson Meyer and Jesse Jenkins · 10/08/2025 · 1h 13m

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 1d

The White House is offering “concierge, white glove service” to oil, coal & other fossil fuel companies that are seeking to gain fast approval for their projects, according to an energy official, while simultaneously slowing down or blocking solar and wind. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... 🔌💡

White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says

Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 1d

Base Power raises $1B to deploy home batteries everywhere share.google/KwAsfbfTQLKs...
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Base Power raises $1B to deploy home batteries everywhere | TechCrunch

Base Power's Series C will help the company expand beyond Texas, its beachhead market, and build batteries in the United States.

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 3d

As the US cancels industrial decarb and DAC funding, Germany unveiled a 6 billion euro ($7 billion) funding initiative today aimed at industrial decarbonisation www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 3d

The government’s own data rebuts Trump Admin claims that wind and solar are driving up electricity prices, Politico reports share.google/RTIXPPQMXrTH...
“[T]he data say pretty much the opposite” of Trump & Secretary Wright’s claims.

Among the 22 states that drew higher-than-average shares of their power from wind and solar, 17 had below-average electricity prices in June, according to EIA data.

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 3d

Trump's Department of Energy is killing both large Direct Air Capture hubs, which we should recall, were authorized by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law...

heatmap.news/politics/doe...
#Downshift

Trump to Cancel Direct Air Capture Hubs in Texas, Louisiana

A new list of grant cancellations obtained by Heatmap includes Climeworks and Heirloom projects funded by 2021 infrastructure law.

heatmap.news

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 3d

If they're cheaper than utility scale solar (and they might be), then this is great.

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 3d

Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal, according to a new analysis.
share.google/FrLUSBkG5xrX... 🔌💡 #Upshift

Solar and wind power has grown faster than electricity demand this year, report says

A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year.

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 9d

Solar leads EU electricity generation as renewables hit 54% share.google/WEiX2aSdEwj9... 🔌💡 ☀️

According to new data from Eurostat, renewable energy sources generated 54% of the EU’s net electricity in Q2 2025, up from 52.7% year-over-year. The growth came mainly from solar, which produced 122,317 gigawatt-hours (GWh) – nearly 20% of the total electricity generation mix.

June 2025 was a milestone month: Solar became the EU’s single largest electricity source for the first time ever. It supplied 22% of all power that month, edging out nuclear (21.6%), wind (15.8%), hydro (14.1%), and natural gas (13.8%).

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 9d

The world's first carbon border tax is about to go live, roiling — and possibly reshaping —global trade share.google/yTtxujzkAx8a...
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The world's first carbon border tax will soon go live — shaking up global trade

The European Union is poised to fully implement its carbon border tax from Jan. 1.

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 14d

HVDC transmission project delivering 2.1-GW of clean energy from MISO to PJM advances with Iowa agreement share.google/hgdXjZj4xAt1...
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2.1-GW SOO Green transmission project advances with Iowa agreement

The project developers aim to bring low-cost clean energy from the Midcontinent Independent System Operator into the PJM Interconnection while bolstering grid reliability.

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 15d

Here's more on the progress of electrification around the world from @ember-energy.org's new report ember-energy.org/latest-insig... which we discuss on this week's Shift Key here heatmap.news/podcast

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 15d

In the Post (& elsewhere), Energy Secretary Wright continues to get basic facts wrong. He claims “We’ve been talking about ‘electrify everything’ for a while. Today, 15 percent of energy in manufacturing comes from electricity, same as it was 25 years ago.” False. Here's the real global data.

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 15d

This week on SHIFT KEY: A stack of electricity techs — solar, batteries, EVs etc. — seem to be displacing fossil fuels across China & the developing world. Is this the start of the "Electrotech Revolution"? Rob & I discuss the evidence with @kingsmillbond.bsky.social heatmap.news/podcast/shif... 🔌💡

Heatmap graphic shows a truck in China hauling a wind turbine tower with two wind turbines and mountains in the background.

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 15d

Tesla is having its first good quarter in a while. It's not likely to last. share.google/rCn08CwRR83A... 🔌🚗 🔌💡

Tesla (TSLA) is having its first and last good quarter in a while

Tesla (TSLA) is having its first good quarter (Q3) in a while. Still, it will likely be its last decent...

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 18d

The money -- and the potential bill savings!-- is in the wires! Just like @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social and I discussed on Shift Key here heatmap.news/podcast/shif...

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 18d

Well 🤬
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/c...

If global temperatures continue rising, virtually all the corals in the Atlantic Ocean will stop growing and could succumb to erosion by the end of the century, a new study finds.

The analysis of over 400 existing coral reefs across the Atlantic Ocean estimates that more than 70 percent of the region’s reefs will begin dying by 2040 even under optimistic climate warming scenarios.

And if the planet exceeds 2 degrees Celsius of warming above preindustrial temperatures by the end of the century, 99 percent of corals in the region would meet this fate. Today, the planet has warmed about 1.3 degrees Celsius over preindustrial temperatures.

The implications are grave.

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 18d

breaking from me: the trump administration just suffered its first major loss in court over its onslaught on offshore wind

the revolution wind project can now resume construction after a federal judge found its developer orsted was likely to win against the trump order to stop work

@heatmap.news

Trump Just Suffered His First Loss on Offshore Wind

A judge has lifted the administration’s stop-work order against Revolution Wind.

heatmap.news

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 19d

I have one! Cherry red.

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