Kim Wright
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Today on Volts: the costs of accommodating all those new data centers on the grid are being subtly shifted to ordinary electricity ratepayers, via rate cases. And in the process, Big Tech & utilities are forming an unholy alliance against grid reform. Two Harvard Law scholars get into the details.
Who is paying for all that data center power?
Legal experts Eliza Martin and Ari Peskoe explain how data centers' massive electricity demands could shift billions in infrastructure costs onto regular utility customers.
www.volts.wtf
March 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Today on Volts: the costs of accommodating all those new data centers on the grid are being subtly shifted to ordinary electricity ratepayers, via rate cases. And in the process, Big Tech & utilities are forming an unholy alliance against grid reform. Two Harvard Law scholars get into the details.
Reposted by Kim Wright
On our 100th CleanLaw 🎧, @jodyfreeman.bsky.social talks with Richard Lazarus, @andrewmergen.bsky.social, and Carrie Jenks about the Trump administration’s actions to date on energy & the environment and why the practice and study of law matter now more than ever. eelp.law.harvard.edu/cleanlaw-tru...
February 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
On our 100th CleanLaw 🎧, @jodyfreeman.bsky.social talks with Richard Lazarus, @andrewmergen.bsky.social, and Carrie Jenks about the Trump administration’s actions to date on energy & the environment and why the practice and study of law matter now more than ever. eelp.law.harvard.edu/cleanlaw-tru...
Reposted by Kim Wright
RIP President Carter, who nailed our society’s foundational environmental problem:
“Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning.”
🌎
e360.yale.edu/features/jim...
“Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning.”
🌎
e360.yale.edu/features/jim...
Unheralded Environmentalist: Jimmy Carter’s Green Legacy
With the former president now in hospice care, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird looks back on Jimmy Carter’s environmental record in the White House — from his sweeping protection of Alaska’...
e360.yale.edu
December 29, 2024 at 9:43 PM
RIP President Carter, who nailed our society’s foundational environmental problem:
“Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning.”
🌎
e360.yale.edu/features/jim...
“Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning.”
🌎
e360.yale.edu/features/jim...