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⚡ Former Tesla exec rethinks electrical transformers! Drew Baglino's new startup, Heron Power, is developing solid-state transformers to modernize the electric grid. Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/2chk69vw
April 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
#GridBalancing starts at home
May 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
#Wdyk about #BlueHydrogen? David Roberts knows enough to frame the issue well.

#IssueFraming
May 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Put that in your grid and balance it. #GridBalancing is an art that Trump is smashing with a crude instrument. Canada’s #ElbowsUP
March 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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“The Western Interconnection is a wide area synchronous grid and one of the two major alternating current (AC) power grids in the North American power transmission grid. The other major wide area synchronous grid is the Eastern Interconnection.”
Western Interconnection - Wikipedia
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March 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Get ready to see this map a lot in the coming weeks.
March 4, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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New data centers, which can be built in as little as 18 months, are far outpacing the growth in new electrical energy supply and transmission, say members of the Salt Lake City-based Western Electricity Coordinating Council.

@ORCapChronicle has the story:

buff.ly/3Mk9mEx
Energy demand from data centers growing faster than West can supply, experts say • Utah News Dispatch
Data centers being rapidly built in the West are becoming an “emerging risk” to electrical grid reliability in the region, experts say.
buff.ly
December 17, 2024 at 10:41 PM
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Fuck Trump
March 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM