Robin Dutta
@rkdutta86.bsky.social
Solar and storage policy. Exec Director at Chesapeake Solar & Storage Association (@SolarChesapeake.bsky.social). Posts/shares are my opinion only
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Trump ordered Treasury employees not to share any more images of his demolition of The White House.
Thou Shalt Share This Photo Because Trump Doesn’t Want You To
He sure as hell wouldn’t want you liking this post or subscribing to this newsletter either.
www.thegodpodcast.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Trump ordered Treasury employees not to share any more images of his demolition of The White House.
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📢 CHESSA member Sol Systems is hiring a Director of Policy!
Shape policy across state, federal & regulatory arenas. Preference for DC-based candidates.
Apply here: buff.ly/ksXQnrv
#hiring #renewablepolicy #energypolicy #solar #cleanenergy
Shape policy across state, federal & regulatory arenas. Preference for DC-based candidates.
Apply here: buff.ly/ksXQnrv
#hiring #renewablepolicy #energypolicy #solar #cleanenergy
August 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
📢 CHESSA member Sol Systems is hiring a Director of Policy!
Shape policy across state, federal & regulatory arenas. Preference for DC-based candidates.
Apply here: buff.ly/ksXQnrv
#hiring #renewablepolicy #energypolicy #solar #cleanenergy
Shape policy across state, federal & regulatory arenas. Preference for DC-based candidates.
Apply here: buff.ly/ksXQnrv
#hiring #renewablepolicy #energypolicy #solar #cleanenergy
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I'm at a loss for words to express how terrible this is.
One more path to strip people of their rights and personhood. This, w/ the EO on birthright c'ship. As ICE's budget gets steroids in the BBB. As the POTUS tours a new concentration camp in Florida.
I'm scared for so many people right now.
One more path to strip people of their rights and personhood. This, w/ the EO on birthright c'ship. As ICE's budget gets steroids in the BBB. As the POTUS tours a new concentration camp in Florida.
I'm scared for so many people right now.
The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.
Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".
Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.
substack.com/redirect/169...
Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".
Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.
substack.com/redirect/169...
June 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I'm at a loss for words to express how terrible this is.
One more path to strip people of their rights and personhood. This, w/ the EO on birthright c'ship. As ICE's budget gets steroids in the BBB. As the POTUS tours a new concentration camp in Florida.
I'm scared for so many people right now.
One more path to strip people of their rights and personhood. This, w/ the EO on birthright c'ship. As ICE's budget gets steroids in the BBB. As the POTUS tours a new concentration camp in Florida.
I'm scared for so many people right now.
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Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analysed the cost of solar in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar panels can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar panels can be cheaper than using wood.
June 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analysed the cost of solar in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar panels can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar panels can be cheaper than using wood.
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Republicans may lie about what's in their budget bill but the numbers sure don't.
June 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Republicans may lie about what's in their budget bill but the numbers sure don't.
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Incredible!
ERCOT (most of Texas) slashed its risk of inadequate generation from 16% to 0.48% in just one year
How?
10 GW of mostly solar and batteries were added.
Solar plus batteries can be built quickly and on budget. They often will solve reliability problems, not cause them.
#energysky
ERCOT (most of Texas) slashed its risk of inadequate generation from 16% to 0.48% in just one year
How?
10 GW of mostly solar and batteries were added.
Solar plus batteries can be built quickly and on budget. They often will solve reliability problems, not cause them.
#energysky
ERCOT's Kristi Hobbs told the ERCOT Board the risk of energy emergencies is much lower this summer. We've added about 10,000 megawatts in a year "most of it from solar and batteries, that puts us in a better position." Indeed. 16% chance last summer and 0.48% this summer.
June 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Incredible!
ERCOT (most of Texas) slashed its risk of inadequate generation from 16% to 0.48% in just one year
How?
10 GW of mostly solar and batteries were added.
Solar plus batteries can be built quickly and on budget. They often will solve reliability problems, not cause them.
#energysky
ERCOT (most of Texas) slashed its risk of inadequate generation from 16% to 0.48% in just one year
How?
10 GW of mostly solar and batteries were added.
Solar plus batteries can be built quickly and on budget. They often will solve reliability problems, not cause them.
#energysky
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The solar panels on your roof are pulling their weight during this heat wave! ☀️
At 3pm Monday afternoon, behind-the-meter solar generated 4.7 GW of power in New England. That was about 18% of total demand www.wbur.org/news/2025/06... @wbur.org
At 3pm Monday afternoon, behind-the-meter solar generated 4.7 GW of power in New England. That was about 18% of total demand www.wbur.org/news/2025/06... @wbur.org
How rooftop solar is helping New England stay cool during the heat wave
At peak hours during this week's heat wave, solar panels on homes, businesses, parking lots and alongside roads are helping relieve stress on the electric grid.
www.wbur.org
June 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The solar panels on your roof are pulling their weight during this heat wave! ☀️
At 3pm Monday afternoon, behind-the-meter solar generated 4.7 GW of power in New England. That was about 18% of total demand www.wbur.org/news/2025/06... @wbur.org
At 3pm Monday afternoon, behind-the-meter solar generated 4.7 GW of power in New England. That was about 18% of total demand www.wbur.org/news/2025/06... @wbur.org
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One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup
June 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup
We’re dealing with domestic right-wing terrorism. Plain and simple.
June 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We’re dealing with domestic right-wing terrorism. Plain and simple.
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Alberta can’t. O & G is all the UCP cares about!
June 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Alberta can’t. O & G is all the UCP cares about!
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Solar and storage is the fastest, most affordable path forward—& vital to meeting rising AI/manufacturing demand.
📣 Tell Congress: solarpowersamerica.org/campaign/def...
CHESSA will keep pushing at the state level.
📣 Tell Congress: solarpowersamerica.org/campaign/def...
CHESSA will keep pushing at the state level.
Defend American Energy - Solar Powers America
Join us in demanding that Congress defend American energy dominance and protect the economic engine that solar delivers. We know that American-made solar and battery storage are critical to keeping el...
solarpowersamerica.org
May 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Solar and storage is the fastest, most affordable path forward—& vital to meeting rising AI/manufacturing demand.
📣 Tell Congress: solarpowersamerica.org/campaign/def...
CHESSA will keep pushing at the state level.
📣 Tell Congress: solarpowersamerica.org/campaign/def...
CHESSA will keep pushing at the state level.
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Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression
Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression
WASHINGTON—Warning that Americans should brace themselves for an economic “period of transition,” President Donald Trump told reporters Monday that a recession would be an unfortunate but necessary st...
theonion.com
April 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression
Our annual conference will be November 2025! Save the date and if you're looking to become an expert on Maryland, Virginia, and DC solar markets, Solar Focus is an essential stop.
April 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Our annual conference will be November 2025! Save the date and if you're looking to become an expert on Maryland, Virginia, and DC solar markets, Solar Focus is an essential stop.
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Yes, you heard right a few minutes ago—when Cory Booker took office, he was the only Black Democrat in the Senate.
In 2013.
In 2013.
April 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Yes, you heard right a few minutes ago—when Cory Booker took office, he was the only Black Democrat in the Senate.
In 2013.
In 2013.
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what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
April 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
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This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.
April 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.
I haven't personally contributed to a single Democratic campaign this year because I did not see any fight and not much leadership. I'm seeing it from Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), who I first met in2007 and he was my undergrad commencement speaker.
He is a leader and he is standing up.
He is a leader and he is standing up.
April 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I haven't personally contributed to a single Democratic campaign this year because I did not see any fight and not much leadership. I'm seeing it from Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), who I first met in2007 and he was my undergrad commencement speaker.
He is a leader and he is standing up.
He is a leader and he is standing up.
Shout it from the rooftops: LE PEN BROKE THE LAW AND WAS PUNISHED
Quick reminder: Le Pen wasn't found guilty because the French courts hate democracy. She was found guilty because she broke the fucking law.
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
April 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Shout it from the rooftops: LE PEN BROKE THE LAW AND WAS PUNISHED
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Doctors call it the Physiology of Poverty:
The stress of trying to survive every day breaks the mind and the body.
That's why working class people in America live SEVEN years shorter than the very wealthy.
The stress of trying to survive every day breaks the mind and the body.
That's why working class people in America live SEVEN years shorter than the very wealthy.
March 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Doctors call it the Physiology of Poverty:
The stress of trying to survive every day breaks the mind and the body.
That's why working class people in America live SEVEN years shorter than the very wealthy.
The stress of trying to survive every day breaks the mind and the body.
That's why working class people in America live SEVEN years shorter than the very wealthy.
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NEW: In October, we published secret recordings of Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term.
It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.
It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.
The October Story That Outlined Exactly What the Trump Administration Would Do to the Federal Bureaucracy
Historians have hindsight when they look into the past; journalists have the facts on the ground and context to help them look ahead. That means we can sometimes be surprised by how prescient a story ...
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March 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
NEW: In October, we published secret recordings of Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term.
It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.
It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.
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This is delusional. Schumer must go
Schumer told Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater: “Here’s my hope … after this election, when the Republican party expels the turd of Donald Trump, it will go back to being the old Republican party.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Chuck Schumer clung to belief Republicans would ‘expel’ Trump, book says
Even as 2024 election loomed, reporters say, Democratic Senate leader was sure GOP would ‘expel the turd of Trump’
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
This is delusional. Schumer must go
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In a savvy move, Trump concedes to most of Putin’s demands before the Russian leader has time to make them.
March 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
In a savvy move, Trump concedes to most of Putin’s demands before the Russian leader has time to make them.