Mitch O’Neill
grids.bsky.social
Mitch O’Neill
@grids.bsky.social
grids.dev
Energy transition stuff
Anthropic’s report shows AI is automating cyberattacks, lowering the skill & resources needed. For electricity, especially DER/VPP, this means building strong cybersecurity in from day one. Being small or obscure won’t protect you when attack costs approach zero.

www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...
Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
A report describing an a highly sophisticated AI-led cyberattack
www.anthropic.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:11 AM
A quick re-cap of what I and the Australian DER industry has been up to this year. 🎅

grids.dev/posts/2024-a...
2024 Annual Review
This annual review serves as a quick re-cap of what I've been up to and to keep the "make a blog post every year" streak going. It covers work I've been involved in, general trends in the Australian ...
grids.dev
December 24, 2024 at 6:23 AM
“It’s perhaps more appropriate to think of the lithium-ion battery not as a single invention, but as a slow, steady accumulation of many inventions that were needed to both make a battery practical and to unlock its full potential.”

open.substack.com/pub/construc...
How We Got the Lithium-Ion Battery
It took decades of research, performed around the world, before a practical lithium-ion battery was possible.
open.substack.com
December 1, 2024 at 1:09 AM
Declan "I simultaneously signed up to six different retail offers" Kelly stress tests the retail switching systems.

Which retailer wins? Was this the cause of the AEMO market systems outage a few months back? Is Declan going straight to energy jail?

currentlyspeaking.substack.com/p/retail-the...
Retail therapy
'Tis the season
currentlyspeaking.substack.com
November 28, 2024 at 1:58 AM
David Leitch dives into the future of residential energy use and distribution networks in Australia.

Well researched. Succinct. Many interesting perspectives. itkservices3.com/posts/reside...
CER amd networks – ITK Research
Electricity markets analysis
itkservices3.com
November 26, 2024 at 9:06 AM