Lol @Chris Wright calling inverter-based resources "parasites on the grid" then cancelling $5 million in funding for high-IBR grid protection research (see cancelled DoE awards #EE0010656 and #EE0010658)

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ERCOT Houston daily average TB2s, in $/MW-day.

Pretty interesting! You can see a broadly increasing trend in vol over time - renewables probably did something.

Also goes to show just how remarkable 2021 - 2023 was, right as battery investment was exploding.

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Part 2 of my Substack is here!

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New Energy Institute Blog Post: Remember When Capacity Markets Were the Solution to Missing Money? - by Jim Bushnell

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Interested in math? #datascience? #energy? Then you should check out part 1 of my 3-part series on the statistics of energy prices, on Substack today.

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Another tidbit from my revenue report last December 😀

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Things #energysky should watch this decade: how will reduced capacity accreditation balance out with higher loads and thermal retirements?

So far, it looks like load growth & retirements are carrying the most weight, pushing prices up.

The last time there were more countries autocratizing than democratizing was just before WWII

#energystorage costs reach record lows in 2024 #energysky

Back in the weeds of FERC dockets, appreciating the dry pettiness that come with such proceedings #energysky

Remain eternally angry that AT LEAST six years ago I started pitching multiple editors about a looming insurance crisis in California and was told it wasn't a real story, or if it was it would affect a small number of people, and even if then, it would be a negligible policy issue.

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Leaked images from CAISO