Lessons: 1) Having an investor-owned utility with a shoulder at the wheel can get a lot done; 2) the anti-wind vibe might be weaker than it looks; 3) let's see what else we can do with the industrial capacity (the ship! the workers!) that Dominion has built with VA ratepayers' $$

Feels like market maturity didn't come a moment too soon for storage, which has become a serious player on some of our grids only in the last few years

blog.gridstatus.io/caiso-batter...

closely related to the EU’s right to be forgotten, right?

To me, it means we're probably underestimating data center loads' impact on reliability. And, beyond thinking more about data center flexibility, we should be thinking about how to make our power systems better share their reserves

I hadn't seen this stated anywhere until I came across
@woodmac.com 's article today! Check it here: www.woodmac.com/news/opinion...

this may be the most excited i’ve been to see a bluesky post to date! tylerfitchclimate@gmail.com or tyler.fitch@rmi.org if email feels right

that does seem more likely, for sure, even if IMV less likely to be in the public interest

would the state consider buying the assets at a discount and winding them down? the litigation would be insane but that seems like the most likely path to me

this is making me wonder what regulators and state policymakers might do if they started seeing evidence of a real death spiral in the rate cases. i think there’d be a lot of warning signs before we get to actual failure to pay

yall are having a great conversation about what causes costs on a future energy system. when should and shouldn't that be 1:1 with how families pay to use it?

Grateful to the FT for posting this. It shines an honest and unkind light on the rest of us.

ohhhhhhhkayyyyyyy the speedrun element of this is really setting in