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Richard Meyer @richardmeyer.bsky.social · 29d

Reminder that Texas is headed for a two-year electricity demand expansion not seen since the state’s boom years of the 1960s and is running about five-times the national growth rate.

Richard Meyer @richardmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 19

40-50 GW

Richard Meyer @richardmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 19

Where do you get 100 GW from?

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Richard Meyer @richardmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 19

Siemens has also announced capacity expansion.

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Richard Meyer @richardmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 19

This is not correct.

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Richard Meyer @richardmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 19

Why are turbines sold out?

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Richard Meyer @richardmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 19

This is not only correct, it is *obviously* correct. Natural gas is the practical near-term solution to fuel AI.

I'd add another layer: AI is a national security priority. Therefore, U.S. natural gas resources and infrastructure are strategic assets to leverage in the AI race.

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Richard Meyer @richardmeyer.bsky.social · Mar 17

More recently, our Building for Efficiency study included gas furnaces + electric heat pumps among the different technologies studied for new construction. www.aga.org/research-pol...

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Richard Meyer @richardmeyer.bsky.social · Mar 17

See our 2022 Net Zero study. One scenario was a hybrid gas-electric heating focus to highlight an approach with coordinated gas and electric infrastructure planning and optimization through the use of hybrid gas-electric integrated heating systems.
www.aga.org/research-pol...

Pathways to Net-Zero - American Gas Association

www.aga.org

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Richard Meyer @richardmeyer.bsky.social · Mar 17

There's a pathway to net zero with hybrid. We studied it!

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Richard Meyer @richardmeyer.bsky.social · Mar 13

This is a wild statistic: Williams CEO at CERAWeek just said that permitting costs of a pipeline project are twice as much as the pipe itself.

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Richard Meyer @richardmeyer.bsky.social · Mar 10

Some historical perspective on where natural gas prices are.

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Richard Meyer @richardmeyer.bsky.social · Mar 10

U.S. renewable natural gas supply is relatively small compared with conventional fuels but is growing quickly, up 30% in 2024 led by additions of landfill gas and agriculture projects.

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Richard Meyer @richardmeyer.bsky.social · Mar 7

Data and analysis from a new S&P Global analysis on U.S. LNG exports: spglobal.com/content/dam/...

spglobal.com

Richard Meyer @richardmeyer.bsky.social · Mar 7

If pending U.S. LNG projects were canceled, 85% of the displaced export volumes would be replaced by conventional fuels, including extended coal plant operations in Europe and Asia. On a life-cycle basis, coal’s greenhouse gas emissions are 65-69% higher than those of U.S. LNG.

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Richard Meyer @richardmeyer.bsky.social · Mar 4

You're referring to gas fireplaces and portable heaters, and they use more because gas homes are typically located in colder climates.

I take your point that it's best that we don't force consumers to heat with only specific appliances. People need lots of options.

Mike Bloomberg @mikeebloomberg.bsky.social · Mar 4

47% of utility gas homes also have backup heat. And their auxiliary use is higher than that of homes that utilize heat pumps on their primary source.

I don’t blame you though Richard. Bad blog post.

Richard Meyer @richardmeyer.bsky.social · Mar 4

Half of electric heat pumps use "backup" heat, most of which is extremely inefficient resistive heat. Many homes need "backup" at least every week, and four out of five need additional heat when it's cold.

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Richard Meyer @richardmeyer.bsky.social · Mar 4

When folks cite heat pump sales exceeding gas furnaces, remember that most heat pumps are installed in the South, primarily for cooling and as a replacement for inefficient electric heat. Gas furnaces are still the preferred source of heat where it's cold.

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Richard Meyer @richardmeyer.bsky.social · Mar 4

Don't take my word for it. UC Berkeley did the analysis: energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/t...

Three Facts About Backup Heating

About half of U.S. households with a heat pump have some kind of backup heating. February was cold. Unusually cold throughout much of the United States. Polar vortex conditions brought record-break…

energyathaas.wordpress.com

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Richard Meyer @richardmeyer.bsky.social · Mar 4

Half of electric heat pumps use "backup" heat, most of which is extremely inefficient resistive heat. Many homes need "backup" at least every week, and four out of five need additional heat when it's cold.

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Richard Meyer @richardmeyer.bsky.social · Feb 25

Full fuel cycle as applied in the U.S. does (and should) include methane and other GHGs across each energy trajectory.

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Richard Meyer @richardmeyer.bsky.social · Feb 25

My original post was intended to illustrate the size and scale of gas storage on a given peak day. You're right that efficiencies in end uses, whether electricity or direct gas use, need to be incorporated alongside generation and other full fuel cycle energy requirements.

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Richard Meyer @richardmeyer.bsky.social · Feb 25

ht natural gas

Gregor Macdonald @gregor.us · Feb 25

Encouraging and helpful: US emissions on pace to fall 1.00% in 2024. 🔌 💡

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Reposted by Richard Meyer

Gregor Macdonald @gregor.us · Feb 25

Encouraging and helpful: US emissions on pace to fall 1.00% in 2024. 🔌 💡

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Richard Meyer @richardmeyer.bsky.social · Feb 25

The amount of U.S. natural gas pulled from underground storage on January 21 was the energy equivalent of 900 gigawatts of power generated over 24 hours.

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Richard Meyer @richardmeyer.bsky.social · Feb 23

Some terrible arguments offered here with some huge logical holes. Scaling hasn't produced AGI yet therefore scaling isn't working? Ironically the author would have benefitted by asking AI to critique the article first.

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