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Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · 13d

The “energy transition” has started to sound a little like “late capitalism” newrepublic.com/article/2008...

Chloe Holden @chloeholden.bsky.social · 15d

Everyone in energy should be paying attention to the fight over the proposed Dominion Chesterfield gas plant in VA. Regular people do not agree that utilities have an obligation serve data centers at any cost – especially if the cost is illness and higher bills.

www.12onyourside.com/2025/09/23/c...

‘Catastrophe’: Residents, elected officials oppose Dominion Energy’s proposed Chesterfield gas plant

Residents and elected officials alike said that the gas plant would lead to health problems for people living near it.

www.12onyourside.com

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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 16d

NEW: Behind the pledges, even governors of blue states are greenlighting Trump's fossil fuel agenda. This Climate Week in NYC, frontline communities from New Mexico, California, and Pennsylvania are demanding real climate leadership.

IPS New Mexico Fellow Feleecia Guillen in @commondreams.org:

Climate Week Is Here; Our Governors Are Still Siding with Polluters | Common Dreams

Frontline communities are exposing blue state governors that sell themselves as climate leaders while favoring polluters.

www.commondreams.org

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Chloe Holden @chloeholden.bsky.social · 20d

“Virtual power plants can respond quickly to deliver power or shift load, making the most out of our existing grid... and lowering costs for everyone.” -Edson Perez @advancedenergyunited.org

pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/09/15/v...

Virtual power plant legislation lay in Gov. Newsom’s hands after sailing through California Assembly

California lawmakers passed two bills that aim to facilitate how the state and its utilities handle virtual power plants.

pv-magazine-usa.com

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Chloe Holden @chloeholden.bsky.social · 23d

NORC is doing interesting research on the question of how neighbors can be activated to support each other during disasters. What kind of neighbor are you in a disaster? They came up with some amusing/damning labels:

www.norc.org/research/pro...
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Advanced Energy United @advancedenergyunited.org · Aug 22

Over 2,800 Bakersfield homeowners recently got paid to participate in California’s Demand Side Grid Support (DSGS) program. Read more from The Bakersfield Californian: blog.advancedenergyunited.org/articles/the...

The Bakersfield Californian: 'Virtual Power Plants' Could Go From Emergency to Everyday Power Source

The Bakersfield Californian reports that Assembly Bills (AB) 740 and 44—which aim to further integrate virtual power plants (VPPs) in California's energy system—are currently under consideration in th...

blog.advancedenergyunited.org

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Chloe Holden @chloeholden.bsky.social · Aug 22

But also there’s no way to ever be sure :,)

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RMI - Rocky Mountain Institute @rockymtninst.bsky.social · Aug 4

Cleantech is an economic opportunity. Following recent US federal policy shifts, states can still develop and deploy cleantech to save money, improve health, and position their businesses and residents to thrive.

RMI shares six recommendations for states: bit.ly/4oijwXM

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Chloe Holden @chloeholden.bsky.social · Aug 1

VPPs reliably shave peaks. This shows how one did, in California, during a test event this week. That little shaded sliver represents less stress on the grid, electric bill savings, and money going back into peoples' pockets instead of to peaking generation. Analysis via @thebrattlegroup.bsky.social

Chloe Holden @chloeholden.bsky.social · Jul 31

VPPs are a good solution to peaker plants, but not to meeting all power needs - I don’t think anyone is arguing that! And I love the ideas in this piece but the big solar and wind farms would still need to have a place, you gotta have more generation than our rooftops can provide with tech as it is

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Chloe Holden @chloeholden.bsky.social · Jul 31

Hi! Where’s this stat from?

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Chloe Holden @chloeholden.bsky.social · Jul 31

Trying to make this happen!

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Chloe Holden @chloeholden.bsky.social · Jul 31

Said messaging certainly exists, but sits in reports that have not been translated into soundbites for enjoyment by all - energyinnovation.org/report/clean...

Clean Energy Isn't Driving Power Price Spikes • Energy Innovation

New Energy Innovation research finds the biggest culprits behind rising utility bills include fossil fuels and the climate change impacts they cause, not clean energy.

energyinnovation.org

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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · Jul 24

Big energy policy question of the decade: Will cost crisis in fact produce a popular swing in favor of clean energy, or a new round of anti-clean revanchism? Current discourse(TM) has me pessimistic- but door's wide open to messaging that presents energy transition as the solution to volatility!

Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · Jul 23

It’s hard to find a trend in the electricity system right now that *doesn’t* point to near-term rate hikes if not a broad affordability crisis. That’s a serious problem for climate policy, but also the American economy writ large. I wrote about it: heatmap.news/politics/ele...

What is less well understood is how poorly the United States is prepared to match this rise in electricity demand with an equivalent increase in supply. To some degree, American electricity prices are already rising: So far this year, utilities have received or requested permission to increase customers’ bills by $29 billion, according to a July report from PowerLines, a think tank and advocacy group. That’s a large number in its own right, and it’s more than twice as much as had been approved at this time last year.

But when you look across the power system, virtually every trend is setting us up for electricity price spikes:

The supply chain to build new natural gas power plants is backed up. Virtually all new utility-scale gas turbines are spoken for until the end of this decade, as Heatmap News covered in February.
U.S. natural gas supplies will come under more strain in the next few years as fossil fuel companies export more of the fuel abroad. From 2024 to 2028, North America’s liquified natural gas export capacity is projected to double.
Many of the key components to build more grid infrastructure — such as copper or steel — have surged in cost due to Trump’s tariffs and self-induced trade uncertainty.
The federal government has become a less stable fiscal and financing partner for energy producers and distributors. On Wednesday, Energy Secretary Chris Wright killed a government loan guarantee for the Grain Belt Express transmission project. Why? “To ensure more responsible stewardship of taxpayer resources,” but also because President Trump asked him to.

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Chloe Holden @chloeholden.bsky.social · Jul 29

Would very much like to go to a US version of this

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · Jul 24

I have said this many many times. When Israel's official policy, is "from the river to the sea", when there are Israeli bulldozers and military working hard every day to make this policy a reality, complaining that university students use these words is ridiculous at best.

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Grid Status @gridstatus.io · Jul 25

Beyond turbine supply, the future of gas is not all bright as domestic prices have exposure to global price shocks via LNG exports, which are set to resume growth and continue becoming a greater share of US gas production

tighter supply and increased volatility, another ratepayer stressor

LNG exports as a share of marketable gas

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Chloe Holden @chloeholden.bsky.social · Jul 25

I am in need of some data on (fossil fueled) backup generator participation in DSGS. Anyone know where it can be found?

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Tyler Norris @tnorris.bsky.social · Jul 22

New report drop: Brattle + Clean Air Task Force just released a must-read on optimizing grid infrastructure to meet load growth, with a treasure trove of actionable ideas. 🔌💡 www.catf.us/resource/opt...

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Floodlight @floodlightnews.org · Jul 18

This Texas gas plant would emit as much pollution as 72,000 cars—and most of its electricity would go to private data centers. “There will be a constant roaring of gigantic fans,” one resident said.

Data centers are building their own gas power plants in Texas

Not so long ago, developers of the massive server farms talked about powering them with wind and solar power. But now, with the coming of power-hungry AI platforms, they’re bypassing the grid,…

floodlightnews.org

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Brendan Pierpont @brendan.bsky.social · Jul 16

Great independent validation of what we found looking at this last year. Different time frame, slightly different y-axis, same general conclusion: energyinnovation.org/report/clean...

Graph: Relationship between wind and solar growth and residential rate increases.

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Chloe Holden @chloeholden.bsky.social · Jul 15

Zeke, are you planning to get this published anywhere other than your Substack? (Personally love the newsletter model but asking for the purposes of sharing this data with more old school audiences)

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · Jul 14

NYC experimented with new window heat pump models in some public housing units. in winter, "The window unit-heated apartments used a whopping 87% less energy than the rest of the building’s steam-heated apartments did, cutting energy costs per household in half."

heatmap.news/sustainabili...