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Founding partner Stellar Solar. Board member GENI. Passionate about #renewables. Committed to the reality of the "global energy grid" and using HVDC transmission to support clean energy deployment. www.terrawatts.com
On October 21, a symposium and exchange meeting between GEIDCO and the ambassadors from Latin America and the Caribbean to China was held at the headquarters of the organization. 🔌💡
www.geidco.org.cn/2025/1022/90...
October 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Not a big fan of state public utility commissions; they seem determined to fight change. But pain is usually a great motivator. Electric utilities: the only major industry not reinvented since advent of the internet. Still waiting for the age of the "pro-sumer" -- producer + consumer.
September 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
September 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Federal regulators approve a plan for MISO’s entire 11-state region to share the cost of keeping a Michigan coal plant running past its retirement date at the Trump administration’s demand. 🔌💡
www.utilitydive.com/news/ferc-do...
August 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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July 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
California Senate Bill 540 would help establish a regional electricity market capable of tying together the American West’s three dozen independent power grids. 🔌💡
#BoilingPoint from @sammyroth.bsky.social
link.latimes.com/view/652825d...
July 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Ethiopia says its mega-dam on the River Nile is now complete, following years of tensions with Egypt and Sudan over its construction that many feared would lead to war in Africa. 🔌💡
www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...
July 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 was a simulation exercise to answer the following question:
"How do we make the world work for 100% of humanity…
-in the shortest possible time…
-through spontaneous cooperation…
-without ecological damage or disadvantage to anyone?”
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Read more - www.terrawatts.com/world-work2....
July 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Agreed. Prevention is always so much cheaper than cure but no one wants to pay for that. In nature, working together is the only way we ever get something for nothing. #synergy
June 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The research efforts continue to build the case using real-world data and they continue to host conferences and seminars in trade circles. Next global one scheduled for Sept 2025.
April 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The ambitious electricity cable project connecting the power grids of Greece, Cyprus, and Israel by the end of the decade is progressing as planned, despite facing multiple hurdles. 🔌💡
greekcitytimes.com/2025/03/14/g...
March 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The 7th Global Energy Interconnection (GEl) Conference announced by GEIDCO - Nov. 2025 🔌💡
March 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
In a statement on Monday, Greece has reiterated its dedication to the construction of a subsea electric cable, the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), which aims to connect continental Europe with the Eastern Mediterranean. 🔌💡
greekcitytimes.com/2025/03/11/g...
March 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
African country's incredible £3bn mega dam that's the largest on the continent

With an installed capacity of 5.15 gigawatts, the dam sits among the 20 largest in the world with its primary function being electricity production. 🔌💡

www.msn.com/en-ae/travel...
March 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The business model being used by investor-owned utilities (IOU's) is broken. They think they're in the energy-making business; they're actually in the energy-MOVING business. 🔌💡☹️
February 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
February 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🔌💡And then, there are these solutions...

www.slideshare.net/slideshow/gl...
January 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
𝗘𝗨 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘃𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗟𝗲𝘆𝗲𝗻’𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗽 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told the World Economic Forum on Tuesday that a modernised EU #supergrid would be at the heart of an upcoming plan to bring down power prices. 🔌💡
www.euractiv.com/section/eet/...
January 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Yeah. What is it about those guaranteed monopolies that seem to always inhibit innovation? 🤔
January 7, 2025 at 4:19 AM
#OSOWOG
"The vision of OSOWOG is the mantra that 'the sun never sets'; the idea is to harness solar and other renewable energy from different parts of the world, where the sun is shining at any given moment, and efficiently transmit that power to areas where it's needed." 🔌💡
tinyurl.com/28j5cyxt
January 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Operated by the State Grid Corporation of China, the facility boasts a total installed capacity of 3.6 million kilowatts and is designed to generate 6.61 billion kilowatt hours of electricity annually.
english.www.gov.cn/news/202412/...
January 1, 2025 at 6:14 AM
𝗚𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻-𝗱𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗿 '𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘄𝗮𝘆' — 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆

In August, the regulator approved the 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝟮 between Aberdeenshire and North Yorkshire. 🔌💡

www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
December 31, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Impressive and 💯🎯. Also, electric utility biz models need to be reinvented from production to distribution (as telecoms were forced to do, becoming common carriers). 🔌💡
December 31, 2024 at 7:48 PM
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December 31, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Thank you!
December 30, 2024 at 7:30 PM