Diderot's Niece
@tkwarren.bsky.social
Dedicated to the proposition that, no matter the problem, expanding high-voltage transmission capacity is probably the solution. Let's build big, new, beautiful things.
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Sometimes we agitate in state courts. [Utah trial court strikes down gerrymandered map.] Sometimes we go to federal court. LWV v DHS. Yes, we are nonpartisan. But when we defend the US Constitution, we are defending the backbone of this country—for all. bit.ly/4g5RcEq
November 14, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Sometimes we agitate in state courts. [Utah trial court strikes down gerrymandered map.] Sometimes we go to federal court. LWV v DHS. Yes, we are nonpartisan. But when we defend the US Constitution, we are defending the backbone of this country—for all. bit.ly/4g5RcEq
Shutting down REAP is so disheartening. This program has not been without its issues -- all solvable -- this action solves nothing. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
USDA abruptly cancels rural energy grant application window
It’s the latest setback for the longstanding REAP program, casting uncertainty over the future of a resource that helps farmers save on energy and install…
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July 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Shutting down REAP is so disheartening. This program has not been without its issues -- all solvable -- this action solves nothing. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
Only posting good news today. Whooping crane population is up! www.eenews.net/articles/tex...
Texas whooping cranes hit record population number, FWS says
The Fish and Wildlife Service this week reported steady growth in the population of the rarest crane in the world.
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July 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Only posting good news today. Whooping crane population is up! www.eenews.net/articles/tex...
“It’s not a matter of us making more profit or anything like that,” explained Juech. “The prices that we pay are going up.” www.fox19.com/2025/05/20/d...
Duke Energy’s rate increase begins soon
The rate increase will add about $8 to the average monthly bill or about $96 annually.
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May 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
“It’s not a matter of us making more profit or anything like that,” explained Juech. “The prices that we pay are going up.” www.fox19.com/2025/05/20/d...
For parents: "Gen Z users and a dad tested Instagram Teen Accounts. Their feeds were shocking."
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Column | Gen Z users and a dad tested Instagram Teen Accounts. Their feeds were shocking.
Meta promised parents it would shield teens from harmful content. Tests by young users and our tech columnist dad find it fails spectacularly in important ways.
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May 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
For parents: "Gen Z users and a dad tested Instagram Teen Accounts. Their feeds were shocking."
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Is this a normal EIA "analysis-in-brief" article? #EnergySky www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...
Why California usually pays more at the pump for gasoline - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
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May 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Is this a normal EIA "analysis-in-brief" article? #EnergySky www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...
Hey #EnergySky, I am looking for the best plain language explainer on utility rate recovery and state utility regulation. I've been poking around, watching YouTube videos, &tc, &tc. Would love to find a visualization. HELP
May 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Hey #EnergySky, I am looking for the best plain language explainer on utility rate recovery and state utility regulation. I've been poking around, watching YouTube videos, &tc, &tc. Would love to find a visualization. HELP
Here is what the energy affordability crisis looks like close up. The official response correctly identifies the problem but doesn't offer much in the way of solutions.
www.fox10phoenix.com/news/family-...
www.fox10phoenix.com/news/family-...
Family wants answers after Sun City woman died when her power was shut off
A Sun City woman's death set off a social media storm. An Arizona Corporation Commissioner got into a heated exchange with the family of an elderly woman who died after her power was shut off last yea...
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May 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Here is what the energy affordability crisis looks like close up. The official response correctly identifies the problem but doesn't offer much in the way of solutions.
www.fox10phoenix.com/news/family-...
www.fox10phoenix.com/news/family-...
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"Three in five (60%) Americans say they are not familiar with the state or local regulatory body that determines their utility bills. In a separate open-ended question, around 9 in 10 respondents could not correctly name their specific regulatory body."
Time to make PUCs famous.
Time to make PUCs famous.
Skyrocketing Utility Bills Nationwide Leave American Consumers Feeling Stressed, Powerless - PowerLines
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new poll from nonpartisan consumer education nonprofit PowerLines, conducted in partnership with Ipsos, finds that three in four (73%) Americans are concerned about electric and g...
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April 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
"Three in five (60%) Americans say they are not familiar with the state or local regulatory body that determines their utility bills. In a separate open-ended question, around 9 in 10 respondents could not correctly name their specific regulatory body."
Time to make PUCs famous.
Time to make PUCs famous.
When it comes to electric bills, a majority of Americans do NOT believe the government is sufficiently protecting electric consumers. Excellent coverage of new polling from @ipsosus.bsky.social and @powerlines.org. #EnergySky www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti...
Rising utility bills have Americans worried
As Trump’s policies threaten to raise utility bills, a new poll finds broad concern over costs — and little knowledge of the regulators that control rates.
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April 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
When it comes to electric bills, a majority of Americans do NOT believe the government is sufficiently protecting electric consumers. Excellent coverage of new polling from @ipsosus.bsky.social and @powerlines.org. #EnergySky www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti...
"We're only one wildfire away from a bankruptcy." Wyoming Rural Electric Association's Shawn Taylor.
Utilities in Oregon and elsewhere are pushing lawmakers to pass liability protections, giving them legal immunity in exchange for following safety plans.
via @stateline.org
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/wild...
via @stateline.org
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/wild...
As wildfires intensify, utilities want liability protections. But then who pays?
As climate change drastically increases the frequency and severity of wildfires, power companies say they’re facing growing risk for payouts that could bankrupt them or require massive rate hikes on c...
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April 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"We're only one wildfire away from a bankruptcy." Wyoming Rural Electric Association's Shawn Taylor.
Forget this week's special elections -- here are the exciting races. The Georgia PSC elections are going to be at the top of the ballot in November, bringing issues swirling around rates and affordability into sharp focus. Coverage in the @georgiarecorder.com💡🔌https://bit.ly/4iYjilI
April 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Forget this week's special elections -- here are the exciting races. The Georgia PSC elections are going to be at the top of the ballot in November, bringing issues swirling around rates and affordability into sharp focus. Coverage in the @georgiarecorder.com💡🔌https://bit.ly/4iYjilI
If you haven't been following recent 'discussions' between the Florida legislature's and the Florida PSC, you are missing out. 💡🔌
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PSC chair grilled over Supreme Court chief justice's criticisms • Florida Phoenix
Four months after Florida Supreme Court Justice Carlos Muñiz blasted the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) for not providing enough information to justify a public utility rate increase, the cha...
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April 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you haven't been following recent 'discussions' between the Florida legislature's and the Florida PSC, you are missing out. 💡🔌
floridaphoenix.com/2025/03/31/p...
floridaphoenix.com/2025/03/31/p...
Curious that some of the most interesting research I am seeing is coming from financial analysis.
"Many utilities are pursuing old-fashioned recipes, but a quorum is growing to consider... faster, cheaper, & cleaner ways to increase supply... Institutionalism & inertia" have limited uptake, but "corporate & govt interests can 'nudge' slow-to-innovate companies & regulators" 🔌💡
Important new Morgan Stanley research note highlighting 4 strategies to boost US power supply: GETs, Surplus Interconnection, Adv Reconductoring, Flexible Loads. 🔌💡
April 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Curious that some of the most interesting research I am seeing is coming from financial analysis.
Via @cnn.com: Also terminated was the entire staff of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, according to Mark Wolfe, executive director of the National Energy Assistance Directors Association." LIHEAP provides about $4 billion to help millions ... with their heating and cooling bills.
April 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Via @cnn.com: Also terminated was the entire staff of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, according to Mark Wolfe, executive director of the National Energy Assistance Directors Association." LIHEAP provides about $4 billion to help millions ... with their heating and cooling bills.
Anyone curious about Denmark's relationship to Greenland could watch Season 1, episode 4 of #Borgen (Netflix) as a quick explainer. bit.ly/3XFzjV7
Watch Borgen | Netflix
A shocking turn of events puts Birgitte Nyborg in the Danish prime minister's seat as her country's first female leader in this landmark drama.
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March 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Anyone curious about Denmark's relationship to Greenland could watch Season 1, episode 4 of #Borgen (Netflix) as a quick explainer. bit.ly/3XFzjV7
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Rivian achieved a gross profit in Q4 for the first time ever:
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February 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Rivian achieved a gross profit in Q4 for the first time ever:
Ordinary humans discussing the PJM capacity market on the New Jersey Reddit page. #EnergySky www.reddit.com/r/newjersey/...
Can someone explain like I’m five? I don’t quite understand WHY the prices of electricity are going up?
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February 21, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Ordinary humans discussing the PJM capacity market on the New Jersey Reddit page. #EnergySky www.reddit.com/r/newjersey/...
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The USDA awards more than $6 billion in grants and loans to help rural, member-owned electric cooperatives build renewable energy and battery storage projects. 🔌💡
www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol...
USDA awards $6B to rural clean power initiatives
The funding will mostly go toward helping rural electric co-ops build solar, wind, and battery projects that will clean up the grid, create jobs, and save…
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January 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The USDA awards more than $6 billion in grants and loans to help rural, member-owned electric cooperatives build renewable energy and battery storage projects. 🔌💡
www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol...
From the USDA: "More than one in five rural Americans will benefit from clean energy investments supported through the New ERA and PACE programs." USDA has awarded roughly 90% of IIJA funding for these programs. 🎉🎉 bit.ly/3WgsRmS
USDA Continues Historic Commitment, Partnering with Rural Communities on Clean, Affordable Energy
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January 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
From the USDA: "More than one in five rural Americans will benefit from clean energy investments supported through the New ERA and PACE programs." USDA has awarded roughly 90% of IIJA funding for these programs. 🎉🎉 bit.ly/3WgsRmS
If you are wondering about the prospects for electrifying rail transport, read this EXCELLENT commentary from Jim Hoecker and Michael Iden in Power Magazine. #EnergySky www.powermag.com/u-s-railroad...
U.S. Railroading: What Sector's Future Power Suppliers Will Need to Know
Among the elements of America's carbon-based industries and infrastructure being impacted by electrification, transportation exhibits, first, widespread
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January 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
If you are wondering about the prospects for electrifying rail transport, read this EXCELLENT commentary from Jim Hoecker and Michael Iden in Power Magazine. #EnergySky www.powermag.com/u-s-railroad...
I am having a debate with a friend over the pronunciation of radiator. He says people in New York and NJ pronounce it RAD-iator (rhymes with gladiator), not RAY-diator. Can this be true? I have never heard that. It sounds ridiculous. 💡🔌
January 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I am having a debate with a friend over the pronunciation of radiator. He says people in New York and NJ pronounce it RAD-iator (rhymes with gladiator), not RAY-diator. Can this be true? I have never heard that. It sounds ridiculous. 💡🔌
USDA received $46 billion in clean energy proposals from electric co-ops competing for New ERA's $9.7 billion in available funding. These are projects developed by and for rural communities across the country. @jasonplautz.bsky.social www.eenews.net/articles/rur...
Rural utilities are slashing CO2. Will it last under Trump?
The president-elect’s pick to lead USDA, Brooke Rollins, has decried “devastating” clean energy subsidies.
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December 20, 2024 at 9:42 PM
USDA received $46 billion in clean energy proposals from electric co-ops competing for New ERA's $9.7 billion in available funding. These are projects developed by and for rural communities across the country. @jasonplautz.bsky.social www.eenews.net/articles/rur...
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Atlas Agro is advancing plans for a 350 MW electrolysis to green ammonia plant near Richland, WA w/energy likely to be supplied by new X-Energy reactors operated by Energy Northwest, which runs the PNW's only operating reactor at Columbia Generating Station
www.tri-cityherald.com/news/busines... 🔌💡
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$1B Richland fertilizer plant will need the power of 132K homes. Where will it come from?
New details from the 25-page contract made public.
www.tri-cityherald.com
December 18, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Atlas Agro is advancing plans for a 350 MW electrolysis to green ammonia plant near Richland, WA w/energy likely to be supplied by new X-Energy reactors operated by Energy Northwest, which runs the PNW's only operating reactor at Columbia Generating Station
www.tri-cityherald.com/news/busines... 🔌💡
www.tri-cityherald.com/news/busines... 🔌💡
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Yesterday, the MISO board approved $30 billion of investment in the transmission grid in the Midwest. The largest in US history. It will enable and accelerate massive amounts of clean energy and significantly improve reliability. This is how progress is made. 💡🔌
www.eenews.net/articles/mid...
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Midwest grid signs off on record $21B transmission ‘backbone’
Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota governors favor the high-voltage expansion as they plan for surging power demand.
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December 13, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Yesterday, the MISO board approved $30 billion of investment in the transmission grid in the Midwest. The largest in US history. It will enable and accelerate massive amounts of clean energy and significantly improve reliability. This is how progress is made. 💡🔌
www.eenews.net/articles/mid...
www.eenews.net/articles/mid...