Tyler Norris
@tnorris.bsky.social
"An expert in power systems" -NYTimes | J.B. Duke Fellow, PhDing @DukeU | Fmr: SPGlobal, USDOE, Cypress Creek Renewables | Stanford alumn
Substack: http://powerpolicy.net
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Tyler Norris
@tnorris.bsky.social
· May 20
This is the deepest journalism I’ve seen yet on AI’s impact on the US power sector. I’m honored to be included w/ David Victor, Ari Peskoe, Costa Samaras, EPRI, and others. 🔌💡 www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
Excited to share this professional update! 🔌💡
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Excited to share this professional update! 🔌💡
This recommendation of my @nytimes.com op-ed means a lot coming from Truman Semans, a respected leader in global climate finance & corporate sustainability on @dukeenvironment.bsky.social's board:
November 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This recommendation of my @nytimes.com op-ed means a lot coming from Truman Semans, a respected leader in global climate finance & corporate sustainability on @dukeenvironment.bsky.social's board:
Grid utilization appears increasingly likely to emerge as a defining theme in US electricity regulation & policy going forward 🔌💡
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Grid utilization appears increasingly likely to emerge as a defining theme in US electricity regulation & policy going forward 🔌💡
Notable op-ed today by @allisonclements.bsky.social @mfarmer.bsky.social & Sam Walsh: "bottom line is that enabling load flexibility is critical to achieving speed-to-power for large customers while keeping the grid reliable and affordable for the rest of us." 🔌💡 www.utilitydive.com/news/data-ce...
Making flexibility work: A concrete framework for the DOE large load proposal
The proposal for interconnecting data centers to the grid calls for load flexibility but gives few details. Former FERC Commissioner Allison Clements and Miles Farmer and Sam Walsh of Roselle LLP fill...
www.utilitydive.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Notable op-ed today by @allisonclements.bsky.social @mfarmer.bsky.social & Sam Walsh: "bottom line is that enabling load flexibility is critical to achieving speed-to-power for large customers while keeping the grid reliable and affordable for the rest of us." 🔌💡 www.utilitydive.com/news/data-ce...
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Great piece from @tnorris.bsky.social Tyler Norris in the NYT earlier this week, ICYMI. Gift link below. "A Simple Fix to America’s Soaring Electricity Prices" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
Opinion | A Simple Fix to America’s Soaring Electricity Prices
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Great piece from @tnorris.bsky.social Tyler Norris in the NYT earlier this week, ICYMI. Gift link below. "A Simple Fix to America’s Soaring Electricity Prices" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
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DOE's ANOPR could change the way large energy users connect to the grid. This Policy Brief, by Roselle, @allisonclements.bsky.social and Nicholas Institute, unpacks a promising principle in the ANOPR: interconnection for flexible loads should be expedited. nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/publications...
How DOE’s Proposed Large Load Interconnection Process Could Unlock the Benefits of Load Flexibility
In the United States, the current system for interconnecting large electric loads, like data centers, to the grid has left all sides frustrated. Data center developers are mired in slow interconnectio...
nicholasinstitute.duke.edu
November 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
DOE's ANOPR could change the way large energy users connect to the grid. This Policy Brief, by Roselle, @allisonclements.bsky.social and Nicholas Institute, unpacks a promising principle in the ANOPR: interconnection for flexible loads should be expedited. nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/publications...
🚨 NEW REPORT:
A major FERC rulemaking on large load interconnection is likely imminent, and anyone who wants to understand its potential should read @nichinstitute.bsky.social new brief by @mfarmer.bsky.social @allisonclements.bsky.social @azevin.bsky.social @smaczni.bsky.social et al. 🔌💡
A major FERC rulemaking on large load interconnection is likely imminent, and anyone who wants to understand its potential should read @nichinstitute.bsky.social new brief by @mfarmer.bsky.social @allisonclements.bsky.social @azevin.bsky.social @smaczni.bsky.social et al. 🔌💡
November 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
🚨 NEW REPORT:
A major FERC rulemaking on large load interconnection is likely imminent, and anyone who wants to understand its potential should read @nichinstitute.bsky.social new brief by @mfarmer.bsky.social @allisonclements.bsky.social @azevin.bsky.social @smaczni.bsky.social et al. 🔌💡
A major FERC rulemaking on large load interconnection is likely imminent, and anyone who wants to understand its potential should read @nichinstitute.bsky.social new brief by @mfarmer.bsky.social @allisonclements.bsky.social @azevin.bsky.social @smaczni.bsky.social et al. 🔌💡
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Interesting about the 22 hours/year.
This aligns with the energy storage VPP programs around the nation. The batteries are expected to be used a handful of times for a few hours each time during complex grid moments.
Our power grids are build to sustain these peaks, but now we have tools.
This aligns with the energy storage VPP programs around the nation. The batteries are expected to be used a handful of times for a few hours each time during complex grid moments.
Our power grids are build to sustain these peaks, but now we have tools.
"if big new power users [data centers] curbed demand just 0.25 percent of the time — about 22 hours a year — the United States could accommodate more data centers without burdening household electricity users." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o... @tnorris.bsky.social
Opinion | A Simple Fix to America’s Soaring Electricity Prices
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Interesting about the 22 hours/year.
This aligns with the energy storage VPP programs around the nation. The batteries are expected to be used a handful of times for a few hours each time during complex grid moments.
Our power grids are build to sustain these peaks, but now we have tools.
This aligns with the energy storage VPP programs around the nation. The batteries are expected to be used a handful of times for a few hours each time during complex grid moments.
Our power grids are build to sustain these peaks, but now we have tools.
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We've been doing power generation and distribution using combustion and a brute force approach which is incredibly wasteful in many ways.
The good news is we have a lot of ways to move beyond this approach now, that benefits us all in many ways.
Progress.
The good news is we have a lot of ways to move beyond this approach now, that benefits us all in many ways.
Progress.
"if big new power users [data centers] curbed demand just 0.25 percent of the time — about 22 hours a year — the United States could accommodate more data centers without burdening household electricity users." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o... @tnorris.bsky.social
Opinion | A Simple Fix to America’s Soaring Electricity Prices
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
We've been doing power generation and distribution using combustion and a brute force approach which is incredibly wasteful in many ways.
The good news is we have a lot of ways to move beyond this approach now, that benefits us all in many ways.
Progress.
The good news is we have a lot of ways to move beyond this approach now, that benefits us all in many ways.
Progress.
#2 piece @nytopinion.nytimes.com right now! 🔌💡
November 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
#2 piece @nytopinion.nytimes.com right now! 🔌💡
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Check out this excellent article by @tnorris.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
#energysky 🔌💡
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
#energysky 🔌💡
Opinion | A Simple Fix to America’s Soaring Electricity Prices
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Check out this excellent article by @tnorris.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
#energysky 🔌💡
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
#energysky 🔌💡
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I love that demand flexibility has gotten to the mainstream point of being featured in the NY Times.
Kudos to Tyler for his persistent and very clear push for this smart solution to manage demand growth. 🔌 💡
Kudos to Tyler for his persistent and very clear push for this smart solution to manage demand growth. 🔌 💡
I have a @nytimes.com op-ed today on managing power demand growth. Central point: load growth is an opportunity to *offset* upward rate pressure (and avoid gas overbuild), if we plan the system to make fuller use of infrastructure we’ve already paid for. 🔌💡 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
November 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I love that demand flexibility has gotten to the mainstream point of being featured in the NY Times.
Kudos to Tyler for his persistent and very clear push for this smart solution to manage demand growth. 🔌 💡
Kudos to Tyler for his persistent and very clear push for this smart solution to manage demand growth. 🔌 💡
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Well said, Tyler.
I have a @nytimes.com op-ed today on managing power demand growth. Central point: load growth is an opportunity to *offset* upward rate pressure (and avoid gas overbuild), if we plan the system to make fuller use of infrastructure we’ve already paid for. 🔌💡 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
November 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Well said, Tyler.
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🎁 Gift link: Insightful op-ed on electricity prices by @tnorris.bsky.social
Why the rise?
⬆️ natural gas prices
⬆️ costs to modernize the grid and rebuild after hurricanes, wildfires
"Ask the largest power users to draw a little less from the grid during the limited hours when it’s most strained."
Why the rise?
⬆️ natural gas prices
⬆️ costs to modernize the grid and rebuild after hurricanes, wildfires
"Ask the largest power users to draw a little less from the grid during the limited hours when it’s most strained."
Opinion | A Simple Fix to America’s Soaring Electricity Prices
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
🎁 Gift link: Insightful op-ed on electricity prices by @tnorris.bsky.social
Why the rise?
⬆️ natural gas prices
⬆️ costs to modernize the grid and rebuild after hurricanes, wildfires
"Ask the largest power users to draw a little less from the grid during the limited hours when it’s most strained."
Why the rise?
⬆️ natural gas prices
⬆️ costs to modernize the grid and rebuild after hurricanes, wildfires
"Ask the largest power users to draw a little less from the grid during the limited hours when it’s most strained."
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"if big new power users [data centers] curbed demand just 0.25 percent of the time — about 22 hours a year — the United States could accommodate more data centers without burdening household electricity users." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o... @tnorris.bsky.social
Opinion | A Simple Fix to America’s Soaring Electricity Prices
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"if big new power users [data centers] curbed demand just 0.25 percent of the time — about 22 hours a year — the United States could accommodate more data centers without burdening household electricity users." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o... @tnorris.bsky.social
I have a @nytimes.com op-ed today on managing power demand growth. Central point: load growth is an opportunity to *offset* upward rate pressure (and avoid gas overbuild), if we plan the system to make fuller use of infrastructure we’ve already paid for. 🔌💡 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
November 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I have a @nytimes.com op-ed today on managing power demand growth. Central point: load growth is an opportunity to *offset* upward rate pressure (and avoid gas overbuild), if we plan the system to make fuller use of infrastructure we’ve already paid for. 🔌💡 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
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Congrats to Ph.D. student Tyler Norris, @tnorris.bsky.social, who was named to the 2025 TIME100 Climate list. His research on electric power systems is helping the tech and energy industries find ways to meet rising electricity demand using the existing grid.
time.com/collections/...
time.com/collections/...
Tyler Norris: The 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders of 2025
Find out why Tyler Norris is on TIME's 2025 list of the 100 most influential leaders driving business climate action.
time.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Congrats to Ph.D. student Tyler Norris, @tnorris.bsky.social, who was named to the 2025 TIME100 Climate list. His research on electric power systems is helping the tech and energy industries find ways to meet rising electricity demand using the existing grid.
time.com/collections/...
time.com/collections/...
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The DOE proposed a new rule that could transform how large loads like data centers connect to the grid.
@allisonclements.bsky.social, former FERC Commissioner, @tnorris.bsky.social + Shayle Kann unpack what this could mean in a world of AI-driven energy demand
www.latitudemedia.com/news/catalys...
@allisonclements.bsky.social, former FERC Commissioner, @tnorris.bsky.social + Shayle Kann unpack what this could mean in a world of AI-driven energy demand
www.latitudemedia.com/news/catalys...
Unpacking DOE's proposal to transform data center interconnection
Former FERC commissioner Allison Clements and Duke researcher Tyler Norris break down the potential for federal interconnection reform.
www.latitudemedia.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The DOE proposed a new rule that could transform how large loads like data centers connect to the grid.
@allisonclements.bsky.social, former FERC Commissioner, @tnorris.bsky.social + Shayle Kann unpack what this could mean in a world of AI-driven energy demand
www.latitudemedia.com/news/catalys...
@allisonclements.bsky.social, former FERC Commissioner, @tnorris.bsky.social + Shayle Kann unpack what this could mean in a world of AI-driven energy demand
www.latitudemedia.com/news/catalys...
Stay tuned for new @catalyst-pod.bsky.social episode w/ @allisonclements.bsky.social and myself on DOE's new proposed rule to FERC, releasing tomorrow AM! 🔌💡
October 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Stay tuned for new @catalyst-pod.bsky.social episode w/ @allisonclements.bsky.social and myself on DOE's new proposed rule to FERC, releasing tomorrow AM! 🔌💡
This is a very big deal! 🔌💡
Late night filing from Chris Wright that could greatly expand federal authority over interconnection -- and fast track the process for flexible large loads. By me for @latitudemedia.bsky.social ⤵️
www.latitudemedia.com/news/wright-... #energysky
www.latitudemedia.com/news/wright-... #energysky
Wright directs FERC to fast track large load interconnection
In a notice of proposed rulemaking, the Energy Secretary endorsed accelerating interconnection for flexible loads like data centers.
www.latitudemedia.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM
This is a very big deal! 🔌💡
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Late night filing from Chris Wright that could greatly expand federal authority over interconnection -- and fast track the process for flexible large loads. By me for @latitudemedia.bsky.social ⤵️
www.latitudemedia.com/news/wright-... #energysky
www.latitudemedia.com/news/wright-... #energysky
Wright directs FERC to fast track large load interconnection
In a notice of proposed rulemaking, the Energy Secretary endorsed accelerating interconnection for flexible loads like data centers.
www.latitudemedia.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Late night filing from Chris Wright that could greatly expand federal authority over interconnection -- and fast track the process for flexible large loads. By me for @latitudemedia.bsky.social ⤵️
www.latitudemedia.com/news/wright-... #energysky
www.latitudemedia.com/news/wright-... #energysky
One of the first US data center BESS deals to accelerate speed to power was just announced - quite significant. 🔌💡 www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/alig...
October 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
One of the first US data center BESS deals to accelerate speed to power was just announced - quite significant. 🔌💡 www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/alig...
21 US House Reps press PJM for interconnection reforms, including connect & manage: 🔌💡 www.utilitydive.com/news/house-b...
October 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
21 US House Reps press PJM for interconnection reforms, including connect & manage: 🔌💡 www.utilitydive.com/news/house-b...
“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,” said @jigarshahdc.bsky.social 🔌💡 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“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,” said @jigarshahdc.bsky.social 🔌💡 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
NextEra SVP Petter Skantze says battery storage is now “the cheapest form of new capacity” in the US w/ “order of magnitude” faster deployment than gas w/ more modularity & flexible siting to enable higher system utilization & large load integration — #GridFWD in Monterey, CA 🔌💡
October 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
NextEra SVP Petter Skantze says battery storage is now “the cheapest form of new capacity” in the US w/ “order of magnitude” faster deployment than gas w/ more modularity & flexible siting to enable higher system utilization & large load integration — #GridFWD in Monterey, CA 🔌💡