Joanne Nucho
jnucho.bsky.social
Joanne Nucho
@jnucho.bsky.social
anthropologist, filmmaker
writing about electricity, energy, and the future of the grid
author of Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon (Princeton 2016)
opinions expressed here are my own, and do not reflect the views of my employer
www.joannenucho.com
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Really hits home how the only way the Left can deliver a massive public goods agenda is through power at the Federal level. 🫤
November 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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If 1000 billion dollars for a single human beings work really makes you think about the labor theory of economic value AND the madness of economic reason...
the Pope:
November 6, 2025 at 10:29 PM
It’s odd because Tesla would be better off without him.
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
We should collectively dream a little bigger than"derisk individual loans for home energy systems to give homeowners a discount on their energy bill in order to grow a niche for a company that trades securitized solar loans and also takes the tax credits and sells them to other companies"5/
November 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Truth is, solar companies were in trouble even before 2025, just read about solar asset backed securities, overvalued tax credits, the wave of solar bankruptcies in 2024 4/ time.com/6565415/roof...
time.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The loan was cancelled, Sunnova is bankrupt. We can blame the loan cancellation but the problem lies deeper. We never had a public green energy program; whatever we built was easily dismantled, no one knows about this stuff but those following energy policy pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/05/30/s... 3/
Sunnova’s saga continues with canceled $3 billion loan guarantee
The loan agreement from the Energy Department's Loan Programs Office was to support Project Hestia, a model that Sunnova has since moved away from in favor of power purchase agreements.
pv-magazine-usa.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The loan guarantee for "project Hestia" derisked low income customers to install green tech to create make more conscious "energy decisions" and eventually a "virtual power plant." It mentions "good jobs" but most solar work is gig work 2/ www.energy.gov/lpo/Hestia 2/
Project Hestia
Project Hestia will make distributed energy resources — including residential rooftop solar, battery storage, and virtual power plant-ready, consumer-facing software — available to more American homeo...
www.energy.gov
November 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
“they have touted a very strong climate rhetoric, and his fossil fuel record completely undermines his clean energy record."
October 16, 2025 at 2:27 AM