John D. Wilson
@wilson-energy.bsky.social
Clean Energy Research Expert 🔌💡
Works at https://gridstrategiesllc.com/
Lives in Lexington, KY
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilsonjd/
Works at https://gridstrategiesllc.com/
Lives in Lexington, KY
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilsonjd/
@moderation.bsky.app Wondering about accounts like these. OK or not?
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
@moderation.bsky.app Wondering about accounts like these. OK or not?
@simonmahan.bsky.social you need to bring back your "guess the map" posts
November 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
@simonmahan.bsky.social you need to bring back your "guess the map" posts
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“These are just phenomenal numbers for an industry that was built over the past couple of decades to handle much lower load growth,” said John Wilson, Grid Strategies’ vice president and the report’s lead author. www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat...
Data-center power forecasts climb to unreachable heights
Utilities expect electricity growth to reach levels that are hard to fathom — and they’re using those estimates to justify costly new investments in…
www.canarymedia.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
“These are just phenomenal numbers for an industry that was built over the past couple of decades to handle much lower load growth,” said John Wilson, Grid Strategies’ vice president and the report’s lead author. www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat...
Hi #energysky
We're releasing our report on utility load forecasts for 2030 next Tuesday, Nov 18. We start with utilities' load forecasts and there's more!
To get you ready, over on LinkedIn I'm running 3 quizzes:
(1) How much load growth forecast for 2030?
www.linkedin.com/posts/wilson...
We're releasing our report on utility load forecasts for 2030 next Tuesday, Nov 18. We start with utilities' load forecasts and there's more!
To get you ready, over on LinkedIn I'm running 3 quizzes:
(1) How much load growth forecast for 2030?
www.linkedin.com/posts/wilson...
How much will electricity demand grow over the next five years?⚡ I'm excited to share that our 3rd report on US load growth will be released on November 18th. My co-authors are Sophie Meyer, Zacha...
How much will electricity demand grow over the next five years?⚡ I'm excited to share that our 3rd report on US load growth will be released on November 18th. My co-authors are Sophie Meyer, Zachary Z...
www.linkedin.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Hi #energysky
We're releasing our report on utility load forecasts for 2030 next Tuesday, Nov 18. We start with utilities' load forecasts and there's more!
To get you ready, over on LinkedIn I'm running 3 quizzes:
(1) How much load growth forecast for 2030?
www.linkedin.com/posts/wilson...
We're releasing our report on utility load forecasts for 2030 next Tuesday, Nov 18. We start with utilities' load forecasts and there's more!
To get you ready, over on LinkedIn I'm running 3 quizzes:
(1) How much load growth forecast for 2030?
www.linkedin.com/posts/wilson...
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This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.
September 13, 2025 at 8:59 AM
This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.
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THREAD. I don't know what there is left to say about the New York Times and Democrats, but documenting their support for authoritarianism still feels important. If there's any chance to walk back from the fascist cliff, we must see why things like today's article are so dangerous.
September 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
THREAD. I don't know what there is left to say about the New York Times and Democrats, but documenting their support for authoritarianism still feels important. If there's any chance to walk back from the fascist cliff, we must see why things like today's article are so dangerous.
Just the most terrifying climate-related news ... if we lose the pollinators, we lose our food supply. Can't find high ground from that ...
Ecologists’ horror as nature reserves around the world are emptied of insects - with rising temperatures joining habitat destruction as likely causes:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Just the most terrifying climate-related news ... if we lose the pollinators, we lose our food supply. Can't find high ground from that ...
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The Reconciliation bill moving through the Congress would set our #economy back by years, kneecap America’s competitiveness, and force families to pay billions in higher #energy costs.
thepowerline.substack.com/p/one-big-be... #energysky #greensky
thepowerline.substack.com/p/one-big-be... #energysky #greensky
May 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The Reconciliation bill moving through the Congress would set our #economy back by years, kneecap America’s competitiveness, and force families to pay billions in higher #energy costs.
thepowerline.substack.com/p/one-big-be... #energysky #greensky
thepowerline.substack.com/p/one-big-be... #energysky #greensky
Hello everyone. I have had enough conversations about new projects, cases, etc. for this Friday. It's all very exciting, but I need to get some work done and it is 4 pm 😰
April 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Hello everyone. I have had enough conversations about new projects, cases, etc. for this Friday. It's all very exciting, but I need to get some work done and it is 4 pm 😰
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Preliminary data suggests that the global average increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration in 2024 will be a record.
Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record.
(This is the global average, as opposed to Moana Loa)
gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
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Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record.
(This is the global average, as opposed to Moana Loa)
gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
1/
March 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Preliminary data suggests that the global average increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration in 2024 will be a record.
Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record.
(This is the global average, as opposed to Moana Loa)
gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
1/
Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record.
(This is the global average, as opposed to Moana Loa)
gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
1/
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Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
April 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
4th time we've lost power since moving in to this house in September 🙄
February 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
4th time we've lost power since moving in to this house in September 🙄
Just read an excellent substack by @charlesxjyang.bsky.social on the lack of federal action on addressing the transformer (and other HV equipment) shortage. Agree with his suggestions, but they aren't at the scale needed to get more manufacturing plants (plural) built in North America. 1/2 🔌💡
February 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Just read an excellent substack by @charlesxjyang.bsky.social on the lack of federal action on addressing the transformer (and other HV equipment) shortage. Agree with his suggestions, but they aren't at the scale needed to get more manufacturing plants (plural) built in North America. 1/2 🔌💡
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This paper is both enlightening and rigorous. I really enjoyed its high level discussion of the infrastructure of power and agency in a world in which private authority over money trumps public authority.
As the Trusk regime is wrecking the state apparatus that brought us the IRA, it's more urgent than ever to understand the politics of green macrofinancial regimes.
Here's a 🧵 on the result of @danielagabor.bsky.social and I wrecking our brains for four years.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Here's a 🧵 on the result of @danielagabor.bsky.social and I wrecking our brains for four years.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This paper is both enlightening and rigorous. I really enjoyed its high level discussion of the infrastructure of power and agency in a world in which private authority over money trumps public authority.
@jaredb-econ.bsky.social I hope you'll post your critique of @jasonfurman.bsky.social 's Foreign Affairs article here as well as on X. Looking forward to it - there's been too little substantive hindsight analysis.
February 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
@jaredb-econ.bsky.social I hope you'll post your critique of @jasonfurman.bsky.social 's Foreign Affairs article here as well as on X. Looking forward to it - there's been too little substantive hindsight analysis.
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The hypocrisy is a key part of Republican politics:
February 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The hypocrisy is a key part of Republican politics:
Congrats to @tnorris.bsky.social and the Nicholas Institute for a highly-needed report on demand flexibility, focusing on data center loads. The discussion of how AI-driven loads can be flexible on p 11-14 is very important - many readers of Grid Strategies' reports on load growth asked about this!
5/ What does load flexibility mean, and what appears to enable more of it by AI data centers?
-Tapping on-site generators & batteries
-Deferring workloads by a handful of hours
-Shifting workloads to other data centers
-Short, targeted reductions in electricity use
-Tapping on-site generators & batteries
-Deferring workloads by a handful of hours
-Shifting workloads to other data centers
-Short, targeted reductions in electricity use
February 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Congrats to @tnorris.bsky.social and the Nicholas Institute for a highly-needed report on demand flexibility, focusing on data center loads. The discussion of how AI-driven loads can be flexible on p 11-14 is very important - many readers of Grid Strategies' reports on load growth asked about this!
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I wrote this NASA page about wildfires and climate change, and I'm so excited it's finally live. It's a tireless effort to get big pages published at NASA - as it should be!
How long will it remain up? Who knows. Check it out while you still can. 🧪 #climatesky
science.nasa.gov/wildfires-an...
How long will it remain up? Who knows. Check it out while you still can. 🧪 #climatesky
science.nasa.gov/wildfires-an...
February 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I wrote this NASA page about wildfires and climate change, and I'm so excited it's finally live. It's a tireless effort to get big pages published at NASA - as it should be!
How long will it remain up? Who knows. Check it out while you still can. 🧪 #climatesky
science.nasa.gov/wildfires-an...
How long will it remain up? Who knows. Check it out while you still can. 🧪 #climatesky
science.nasa.gov/wildfires-an...
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His administration is literally composed of men who beat and batter women.
Trump: "My administration will not stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes. And it's gonna end, and it's ending right now, and nobody is gonna be able to do a damn thing about it, because when I speak, we speak with authority."
February 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
His administration is literally composed of men who beat and batter women.
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For the past 18 months, the Anti-Defamation League has been calling out people who criticise Israel, accusing them of antisemitism. Yet they're willing to give Elon Musk the benefit of the doubt over his nazi salute. That's not 'a bit of grace'. that's a revealing double-standard
January 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
For the past 18 months, the Anti-Defamation League has been calling out people who criticise Israel, accusing them of antisemitism. Yet they're willing to give Elon Musk the benefit of the doubt over his nazi salute. That's not 'a bit of grace'. that's a revealing double-standard
Reading discovery responses by a contentious utility that doesn't want to answer much of anything, which is putting me to sleep. This woke me up:
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January 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Reading discovery responses by a contentious utility that doesn't want to answer much of anything, which is putting me to sleep. This woke me up:
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Important reporting on offshore wind by @jael.bsky.social. Really encourage #EnergySky to give it a read ASAP
big scoop: i got my hands on a draft executive order ending offshore wind sent to the trump transition team
not only would it stop permits but includes a stop construction order and potentially rfk jr studying the health impacts of living near wind turbines
heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...
not only would it stop permits but includes a stop construction order and potentially rfk jr studying the health impacts of living near wind turbines
heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...
Scoop: The Draft Order that Offshore Wind Opponents Sent to Trump
If even only a few of these ideas are enacted, it would be a harbinger of doom for wind energy in America.
heatmap.news
January 15, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Important reporting on offshore wind by @jael.bsky.social. Really encourage #EnergySky to give it a read ASAP
NERC's 2024 Long-Term Reliability Assessment is out, and has a lot of interesting findings. Concerns about reliability due to limited import capacity, demand growth, and generator retirements are elevating reliability risk across much of North America. 💡🔌🧵1/3
December 18, 2024 at 5:46 PM
NERC's 2024 Long-Term Reliability Assessment is out, and has a lot of interesting findings. Concerns about reliability due to limited import capacity, demand growth, and generator retirements are elevating reliability risk across much of North America. 💡🔌🧵1/3
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Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs.
Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this?
#PHEthx
Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this?
#PHEthx
Infant Mortality Increases Across US Following Dobbs Decision
The Dobbs decision was associated with a 7% absolute increase in overall infant mortality—equivalent to 247 excess deaths—and a 10% increase among infants with congenital anomalies, corresponding to 2...
www.ajmc.com
December 17, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs.
Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this?
#PHEthx
Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this?
#PHEthx