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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually @tkovach.bsky.social · 1d

As @jigarshahdc.bsky.social pointed out last week, demand for electricity is spiking even as capacity utilization rates have fallen from ~60% to ~40%. There's plenty of extra capacity for utilities to tap, but it requires shifting load to off peak periods.
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Is this moment for distributed energy different?

DERs are finally acting like real power plants. But utilities are still treating them like side projects.

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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 3d

I have been digging into why NJ lost six large electricity generating stations since 2018. I get the partisan talking points, but as an investor, I wanted to understand why the owners shut down these plants.

POLITICO Pro: Jack Ciattarelli says Murphy shut down 6 power plants. Not quite true.

On the campaign trail, Ciattarelli keeps blaming Gov. Phil Murphy and the Democrats for shutting down six power plants during his administration.

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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 3d

What is fascinating here is that NJ is dominated by nuclear and natural gas generation. The fact there was too much nuclear and natural gas generation that drove coal plants out of business is not the fault of "renewables." Coal was shut down by plentiful NatGas.

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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 3d

Mercer Generating Station—Faced financial pressure from low electricity prices. The first Trump administration promised looser rules for coal plants but never delivered, so it had to shut down in 2020.

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Coal Comeback? Coal At New Low After Two Years Under Trump - West Virginia Public Broadcasting

It’s been two years since President Donald Trump took office and began rolling back environmental regulations on the coal industry.At a November rally in

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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 3d

Chambers Carneys Point Cogen and Logan Generating Plant—Both were coal plants that were no longer competitive. The first Trump administration kept stating it was "infrastructure week" but never found way to get FERC or subsidies to save them.

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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 3d

B.L. England Generating Station—Coal plant that wanted to switch to NG, but even with low-cost gas, they couldn't make the numbers work so in Feb 2019, the station's owner abandoned its plans to convert the facility into a natural gas plant. Could have been saved by the first Trump administration.

B.L. England Generating Station - Wikipedia

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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 3d

Hudson Generating Station—This plant was aging and less efficient compared to modern natural gas facilities. Rising costs and competition from cheaper, cleaner natural gas power made it financially unsustainable. It closed in 2017, also during the first Trump administration.

PSEG Power retires two biggest coal-burning plants in New Jersey - WHYY

The old power plant in Jersey City had not run the past seven months, but a couple of weeks ago in the middle of a mini-heat wave, the nearly half-century-old facility got called on one more time.

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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 3d

Let's start with the Oyster Creek Nuclear —its closure in 2018 was mainly due to economic unviability. NY and IL passed a law to keep them open, but NJ and PA did not. The Inflation Reduction Act passed subsidies to keep these plants open, but this plant shut down in 2018 during Trump’s first term.

Inflation Reduction Act Keeps Momentum Building for Nuclear Power

Investments and tax incentives included in IRA guarantee a commitment to nuclear energy.

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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 3d

I have been digging into why NJ lost six large electricity generating stations since 2018. I get the partisan talking points, but as an investor, I wanted to understand why the owners shut down these plants.

POLITICO Pro: Jack Ciattarelli says Murphy shut down 6 power plants. Not quite true.

On the campaign trail, Ciattarelli keeps blaming Gov. Phil Murphy and the Democrats for shutting down six power plants during his administration.

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WRI Polsky Center for the Global Energy Transition @wrienergy.bsky.social · 6d

Pakistan’s solar boom wasn’t planned — it was necessary.
Rising tariffs + unreliable grid = homes & businesses turning to rooftop solar.

Now, a full-blown people-led energy revolution is underway.
@jigarshahdc.bsky.social breaks it down

🔗 bit.ly/476wYHC

#Solar #EnergyAccess #Pakistan

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Climate and Capital Media @climateandcap.bsky.social · 5d

🌍 The world is short on power & time.
Electricity demand rose 4.3% in 2024.

@jigarshahdc.bsky.social & Jonah Wagner, former @energygov.bsky.social’s Loan Programs Office leads, lay out how we can meet this load growth quickly & competitively👇

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Meeting the Power Crunch: How proven technologies and policy can deliver affordable, clean power at speed

Renewables paired with batteries have become the fastest solution to meet rising electricity demand while maintaining affordability

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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 5d

I do think that the bold policies pursued/passed by Biden deserve a book by Doris Kearns Goodwin. His bold starting point will be copied and used by the West to diversify supply chains and build long term support for clean energy. I wish he took more credit for it.

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hayden and things of that nature @hayden-higgins.bsky.social · 6d

"Perhaps the distinctive feature of Pakistan’s solar transition is its facilitation by a new wave of mostly self-taught solar entrepreneurs." Amazing to have @jigarshahdc.bsky.social writing for @worldresources.bsky.social www.wri.org/insights/pak...

The Perfect Storm Fueling Pakistan’s Solar Boom

Market forces are encouraging a people-led clean energy transformation in Pakistan from fossil fuels to solar power.

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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 7d

Betony shows how the labor and energy agendas help build each other.

This was a point made by @jigarshahdc.bsky.social @cleangridview.bsky.social @stephenlacey.bsky.social in their pod last week.

Call it ecomodernism with a human face?
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The case for a climate reset

Podcast Episode · Open Circuit · 09/26/2025 · 1h 7m

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 7d

Q: "You're administration took a 5% stake in Lithium Americas...When does the administration see it as appropriate to demand equity stakes or revenue streams from American companies?"

Leavitt: "This is a creative solution by POTUS to tackle our nation's crippling debt crisis."

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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 7d

It was so good to see you at NY Climate Week!

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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 7d

Are we saying that coal uses more land than solar?

John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 7d

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13M acres is about 83% of what we'd need for solar to get to net zero, and you'd actually get to reuse it in perpetuity.

Trump Opens 13 Million Acres for Coal Mines to Aid Ailing Sector

The Trump administration is opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for leasing to coal miners and providing $625 million for power plants that burn the fuel as part of a broad initiative to help r...

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 8d

Coal power is uneconomic in the market, because its costs have stayed the same while clean energy costs fell. We should invest in coal communities rather than prop up uneconomic plants. Also, they are spending $625 million on this plan. That is TWICE as much as we spend on solar power R&D each year.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9d

Breaking News: The Trump administration outlined a plan to revive the coal industry, including opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for mining.

‘Mine, Baby, Mine’: Trump Officials Offer $625 Million to Rescue Coal

The new effort, which includes opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for mining and eliminating pollution limits, aims to save an industry that has been declining for decades.

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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 9d

Wow, demand flexibility has been in the news a lot the last few weeks. It is one of the few tools that can be deployed at scale over the next few years to eliminate rate increases across the country. Sign up here to join me in October in NYC and meet the people making it happen! luma.com/dervos2025

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 9d

The US wine industry today employs more people than coal did at its peak a century ago

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

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Brendon Slotterback @bslotterback.bsky.social · 12d

Go listen to what @cleangridview.bsky.social and @jigarshahdc.bsky.social have to say about climate "pragmatism" open.spotify.com/episode/1zKE...

The case for a climate reset

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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 9d

Wow, demand flexibility has been in the news a lot the last few weeks. It is one of the few tools that can be deployed at scale over the next few years to eliminate rate increases across the country. Sign up here to join me in October in NYC and meet the people making it happen! luma.com/dervos2025

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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 9d

We have been good at this for a very long time:

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Weather Methodology

Amperon developed a unique weather model that incorporates tens of thousands of hyper-local data points into our award-winning energy demand forecasts. This detailed weather data enhances the accuracy...

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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 10d

Want to reduce electricity bills 20% by 2030?

Release the data! We have over 37GW of batteries, water heaters, etc that can participate in demand flexibilty. But without data access they can't bid into the PJM/MISO capacity auction to bring down costs.

Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 10d

Smart meters were all the rage in 2009 (aka Advanced Metering Infrastructure, AMI) and even then most of us knew they were unlikely to bring any real benefits for residential customers. Little did we know that Utilities using rickety Oracle and SAP systems would create a crisis. 🧵

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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 9d

True capacity auction clearing price reductions are part of it. The other part is to get much more asset utilization from the T&D we have already paid for while increasing sales of kWHs.

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GridLab, Kevala study finds $13.7 billion in avoided grid costs for Californians | GridLab posted on the topic | LinkedIn

NEW REPORT: We’re excited to announce the release of a GridLab, Kevala study which identified a whopping $13.7 billion in avoided grid costs for Californians by strategically harnessing distributed en...

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