Let’s worry more about establishing an inspiring, cohesive, and transformational Democratic Party message and getting out the vote in swing states/districts.

Real question: Can a governor call up his state’s national guard as a peacekeeping force in opposition to a federal force? Sounds dangerously close to civil war and I’m not necessarily advocating, but I’m just curious about the legality and what options he does have.

It’s callous and matches the official stance that Russia has to climate change: Let low-lying island states drown and let floods and droughts wreak havoc around the globe as long as it makes it easier to drill arctic oil and minerals.

Agree. Municipalization can accomplish the same ends and with perhaps even greater efficiency. The key is to bring these services back under the purview of the commons and out of the hands of shareholders whose incentives are becoming increasingly misaligned with public good.

💯 Community batteries and BESS work to solve the rate payer death spiral. In their absence, we will see home batteries and VPP beneficiaries widening the wealth gap.

In this sense, Murray Bookchin would be “government Jesus.”

Big question: Will this interconnected nodes paradigm eventually take over the functioning of centralized government?

It think the only real solution is to shift poles and wires from rate base to tax base.

All that does is further incentivize wealthier homeowners to install home batteries and arbitrage their use (with their solar providing functional negawatts) while working families still have to run their appliances during ever increasing peak rate times.

Rate payer death spiral—coming to gas utilities first then to electric utilities. If system planners don’t get ahead of this, it will be the lower income households (who haven’t yet bought a heat pump or installed rooftop solar + storage) who are left holding the O&M bag.

Like the average voter will be more convinced by your slogan of “decarbonization.” Riiiight.
How about “Earth Systems Chaos?”

Yes, that is me over there moving the goalposts. Still processing this conversation…😀

Realistically it will be a “bandwidth tiers” situation like we have with Gb of data: 500 kWh/mo, 800 kWh/mo etc so meters will still exist. I agree with you that energy is different than data. But some of the general ideas are good and I look forward to seeing how the pilots play out!

I’d imagine the fee would be assessed at the end of the month based on the usage of the network/people in the network with larger networks able to predict. That wording was unfortunate yes, but I like the big picture idea, and using batteries as buffers would bring infrastructure cost way down.

Uruguay is a good comparison not far away. Nearly 100% renewables there. Generators will always sell when prices are high. Lack of precipitation is a big threat to hydropower though. Pacific NW US is seeing that on occasion.

It sounds to me like this proposal is a reframing just the old idea of interconnected microgrids. Not “too cheap to meter” but rather a monthly rate that is based on a more decentralized cost structure.

153 Democrats voted just today to advance this terrible bill. I'm glad my representative @summerlee.bsky.social was among the 57 who voted no, but it almost seems like we are living under a one-party system now.

Anyway, the idea of "classical" for a stadium is actually Pier Luigi Nervi.

The last time this happened and absolutely nothing was learned. It's like idiot groundhog day.