Shelley Robbins
@shelleyrobbins.bsky.social
Senior Decarbonization Manager at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
The NCUC has approved a second giant gas plant in Person County without having a solid grasp on either load growth or the real cost of the plant and the pipeline projects that will serve it. Get out your wallets, folks.
cleanenergy.org
October 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The NCUC has approved a second giant gas plant in Person County without having a solid grasp on either load growth or the real cost of the plant and the pipeline projects that will serve it. Get out your wallets, folks.
Reposted by Shelley Robbins
BREAKING NEWS: The North Carolina Utilities Commission approved a second mammoth Duke Energy gas plant based on speculative load forecasts across the street from Woodland Elementary School in Person County — exposing customers to significant rate increases and expensive gas costs 🔌💡
October 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
BREAKING NEWS: The North Carolina Utilities Commission approved a second mammoth Duke Energy gas plant based on speculative load forecasts across the street from Woodland Elementary School in Person County — exposing customers to significant rate increases and expensive gas costs 🔌💡
Would regulators encourage utilities to contract for firm transportation on gas pipeline expansions if they knew it would total a quarter of the price tag of a new gas plant? Using NPV helps daylight the true cost to ratepayers and creates a more honest comparison to the cost of clean energy.
Southeast utilities are signing gas capacity contracts that will burden customers for decades
“Adding even one more dekatherm of gas commitment to the Southeast is senseless,” writes SACE senior decarbonization manager Shelley Hudson Robbins.
www.utilitydive.com
August 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Would regulators encourage utilities to contract for firm transportation on gas pipeline expansions if they knew it would total a quarter of the price tag of a new gas plant? Using NPV helps daylight the true cost to ratepayers and creates a more honest comparison to the cost of clean energy.
Reposted by Shelley Robbins
NEW from @eddysarah.bsky.social and @indyweek.bsky.social:
The National Park Service has deleted a page on Durham's Pauli Murray, part of a federal sweep of NPS content related to LGBTQ+ history.
indyweek.com/culture/fede...
The National Park Service has deleted a page on Durham's Pauli Murray, part of a federal sweep of NPS content related to LGBTQ+ history.
indyweek.com/culture/fede...
Federal Agency Deletes Website Page On Durham's Pauli Murray; Censors Other References to Queer History
Numerous National Park Service websites have been censored in recent weeks in response to an executive order.
indyweek.com
March 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
NEW from @eddysarah.bsky.social and @indyweek.bsky.social:
The National Park Service has deleted a page on Durham's Pauli Murray, part of a federal sweep of NPS content related to LGBTQ+ history.
indyweek.com/culture/fede...
The National Park Service has deleted a page on Durham's Pauli Murray, part of a federal sweep of NPS content related to LGBTQ+ history.
indyweek.com/culture/fede...
Today’s 50501 sit-in at the NC Capitol Building. My second protest in 3 weeks. Probably not my last.
March 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Today’s 50501 sit-in at the NC Capitol Building. My second protest in 3 weeks. Probably not my last.
This is a geologic fold along the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Perhaps we are in a political fold. I just hope I make it to the other side.
March 4, 2025 at 11:19 AM
This is a geologic fold along the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Perhaps we are in a political fold. I just hope I make it to the other side.
Reposted by Shelley Robbins
“debating whether a payout rate should increase to 6% or 10% is entirely missing the discussion we should be having: What does it take to halt and reverse the US’ (and the world’s) rapid descent into fascism?”
Thanks, Foundations, but 6% or Even 10% Payout is Not Enough
Hi everyone, I hope you’re doing OK during this time of Fascist Extremist Assholes Reign (FEAR). If you’re free this...
nonprofitaf.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:19 AM
“debating whether a payout rate should increase to 6% or 10% is entirely missing the discussion we should be having: What does it take to halt and reverse the US’ (and the world’s) rapid descent into fascism?”
Reposted by Shelley Robbins
Gas pipeline companies are expanding their pipelines across the Southeast. But are we paying for infrastructure that ultimately serves to increase these companies’ ability to export gas to foreign countries, thus increasing our electric bills? Find out: ow.ly/ujIO50V5ygz 🔌💡
March 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Gas pipeline companies are expanding their pipelines across the Southeast. But are we paying for infrastructure that ultimately serves to increase these companies’ ability to export gas to foreign countries, thus increasing our electric bills? Find out: ow.ly/ujIO50V5ygz 🔌💡
Trumpflation. 🙄 Let’s raise the price of houses, cars, gas, and eggs. What a stable genius.
I’m sorry, what was that you were saying about the high cost of housing?
Trump Orders Investigation Into Lumber Ahead of Likely Tariffs www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Orders Investigation Into Lumber Ahead of Likely Tariffs www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Orders Investigation Into Lumber Ahead of Likely Tariffs
US President Donald Trump is ordering the Commerce Department to launch an investigation into the national security harm posed by lumber imports, laying the legal groundwork for new tariffs he’s pledg...
www.bloomberg.com
March 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Trumpflation. 🙄 Let’s raise the price of houses, cars, gas, and eggs. What a stable genius.
Make America Stupid Again
The Cascading Damage from
the NIH Freeze:
“In six months, you see the firings and lab closings.
In 2 to 3 years, you see a drop in PhDs.
In five years, you see the noticeable loss in innovation and new patents.
In ten years, you see the mortality rate go up.”
open.substack.com/pub/davidpep...
the NIH Freeze:
“In six months, you see the firings and lab closings.
In 2 to 3 years, you see a drop in PhDs.
In five years, you see the noticeable loss in innovation and new patents.
In ten years, you see the mortality rate go up.”
open.substack.com/pub/davidpep...
"They are strangling scientific research": The Backdoor NIH Freeze
An Insider Explains How Trump Is Evading the Court Order, and the Price We Pay
open.substack.com
February 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Make America Stupid Again
Reposted by Shelley Robbins
Google, Microsoft, and Meta's increasing use of data centers has resulted in increased air pollution from extensive fossil fuel energy consumption and associated public health costs related to treating cancers, asthma, and other similar issues, valued at over $5.4 billion in the past five years.
Pollution from Big Tech’s data centre boom costs US public health $5.4bn
Research suggests the price of treating illnesses related to building of computing infrastructure in the US is on the rise
www.ft.com
February 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Google, Microsoft, and Meta's increasing use of data centers has resulted in increased air pollution from extensive fossil fuel energy consumption and associated public health costs related to treating cancers, asthma, and other similar issues, valued at over $5.4 billion in the past five years.
SACE has created a Fossil Gas Resource Hub for communities fighting the dirty and expensive gas buildout. We hope it’s helpful.
RESOURCE HUB: This year, leaders will be deciding whether to approve pipelines, plants & plans that could lock Southeastern ratepayers into expensive & unnecessary infrastructure. We're working to track these projects in our new Fossil Gas Resource Hub 👉 ow.ly/Sqr450V4fX7 🔌💡
SACE Launches Fossil Gas Resource Hub - SACE | Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
The fossil gas industry is sitting on a massive supply of shale gas in the Appalachian Basin, represented by the large red circle over West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania labeled “Appalachian Basin”…
ow.ly
February 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
SACE has created a Fossil Gas Resource Hub for communities fighting the dirty and expensive gas buildout. We hope it’s helpful.
This is SUCH an informative podcast. I wish every Southeastern regulator and public staffer would give it a listen.
It’s all $100/MWh. Every solution to meet concentrated data center load. Once we all agree than we can compare solutions at scale against each other to meet 25,000 MWs of concentrated load needed by 2030 across the country.
The data center boom: ‘all the cheap power is gone’
Podcast Episode · Open Circuit · 02/21/2025 · 1h 1m
podcasts.apple.com
February 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This is SUCH an informative podcast. I wish every Southeastern regulator and public staffer would give it a listen.
Reposted by Shelley Robbins
It’s all $100/MWh. Every solution to meet concentrated data center load. Once we all agree than we can compare solutions at scale against each other to meet 25,000 MWs of concentrated load needed by 2030 across the country.
The data center boom: ‘all the cheap power is gone’
Podcast Episode · Open Circuit · 02/21/2025 · 1h 1m
podcasts.apple.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
It’s all $100/MWh. Every solution to meet concentrated data center load. Once we all agree than we can compare solutions at scale against each other to meet 25,000 MWs of concentrated load needed by 2030 across the country.
Reposted by Shelley Robbins
Reposted by Shelley Robbins
Fresh, hot paper drop (mine!). Yet another reason to slow our roll on the gas buildout.
Southeastern Ratepayers Are Building a Gas Highway to Export - SACE | Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
Utility load growth projections have dramatically increased for the coming years, based primarily on growth in data center development and the onshoring of U.S. manufacturing. Utilities are using this...
www.cleanenergy.org
February 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Fresh, hot paper drop (mine!). Yet another reason to slow our roll on the gas buildout.
Here’s Lisa Sorg @lisasorg.bsky.social being brilliant again. Thank you, Lisa, for telling our stories so beautifully.
North Carolina’s Climate Activists Brace for Trump’s Return - Inside Climate News
Gaslighting: Fifth in a series about opposition to a wave of new natural gas pipelines, power plants and storage facilities on the drawing board in North Carolina. Listen to an audio version of this s...
insideclimatenews.org
December 30, 2024 at 2:42 AM
Here’s Lisa Sorg @lisasorg.bsky.social being brilliant again. Thank you, Lisa, for telling our stories so beautifully.
It feels like all that was good and decent is gone now.
December 30, 2024 at 2:01 AM
It feels like all that was good and decent is gone now.
Reposted by Shelley Robbins
A climate solution story if ever there was one: Building a geothermal heating system in Framingham, Mass. insideclimatenews.org/news/2112202...
How an Unlikely Coalition of Climate Activists and a Gas Utility Are Weaning a Boston Suburb Off Fossil Fuels - Inside Climate News
Underground pipes and wells tap geothermal energy to heat and cool a neighborhood. Next stop, the world.
insideclimatenews.org
December 21, 2024 at 12:58 PM
A climate solution story if ever there was one: Building a geothermal heating system in Framingham, Mass. insideclimatenews.org/news/2112202...
Another FABULOUS story by @lisasorg.bsky.social in her Gaslighting series about the dangerous gas buildout in North Carolina. #DukeEnergy #methane #methaneisthegunslinger
As the Clock Ticks to Act on the Climate Crisis, N.C. Activists Target a ‘Carbon Plan’ - Inside Climate News
Duke Energy’s fossil fuel buildout comes with a roadmap for increased carbon dioxide emissions that will blow past a previously set 2030 deadline for reductions. While regulators have approved, the cl...
insideclimatenews.org
December 15, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Another FABULOUS story by @lisasorg.bsky.social in her Gaslighting series about the dangerous gas buildout in North Carolina. #DukeEnergy #methane #methaneisthegunslinger
Reposted by Shelley Robbins
Republicans did this to the working class while becoming the party of the working class.
This is the legacy of the Reagan Revolution 👇
This is the legacy of the Reagan Revolution 👇
December 9, 2024 at 12:22 AM
Republicans did this to the working class while becoming the party of the working class.
This is the legacy of the Reagan Revolution 👇
This is the legacy of the Reagan Revolution 👇
Reposted by Shelley Robbins
BREAKING NEWS: The North Carolina Utilities Commission has approved Duke Energy’s Roxboro fossil gas plant in Person County, leaving communities to bear costs of increased air pollution & higher electric bills. Find the ruling here: ow.ly/sMTx50UmNOx 🔌💡
December 6, 2024 at 9:53 PM
BREAKING NEWS: The North Carolina Utilities Commission has approved Duke Energy’s Roxboro fossil gas plant in Person County, leaving communities to bear costs of increased air pollution & higher electric bills. Find the ruling here: ow.ly/sMTx50UmNOx 🔌💡
Reposted by Shelley Robbins
BREAKING: For decades @dukeenergy.bsky.social knew that fossil fuels are warming the planet. Instead of taking action they deceived the public about these harms, denied climate science & blocked solutions.
Today the Town of Carborro, NC takes them to court!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Today the Town of Carborro, NC takes them to court!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Small North Carolina town sues energy ‘Goliath’ in historic climate action
Carrboro officials say Duke Energy broke state laws waging decades-long ‘deception campaign’ about fossil fuels
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2024 at 2:52 PM
BREAKING: For decades @dukeenergy.bsky.social knew that fossil fuels are warming the planet. Instead of taking action they deceived the public about these harms, denied climate science & blocked solutions.
Today the Town of Carborro, NC takes them to court!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Today the Town of Carborro, NC takes them to court!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...