Grace Adcox

Every single day that this war goes on, the more the economic damage just compounds. This is the key line right here from @tracyalloway bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

@fredstaffordcs I would be interested in running polling questions that specifically frame public power in the form of TVA-style federal mobilization of resources and capital, would welcome your ideas on how to capture that nuance

Nice to see this in polling data. But I fear many will take this to imply that the public wants the same kind of public power that the climate left wants

Super comprehensive and very interesting polling. Respondents care LOTS about transparency + perceived fairness. And rather than data centers being THE villain, ppl seem to hate perceived utility mismanagement more? Public power and public grid mgmt are the clear winners here:

no war, no ground invasion. @DataProgress in @playbookdc this AM.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but if infrastructure like this 👇 gets blown up, as of this moment it will take at least a decade to recover from this war - and the truth is that the world's energy picture is probably changed forever. This single facility 👇produced roughly 20% of global LNG supply (aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/18…) and, as of 2011, had taken $70 billion to build (energyintel.com/0000017b-a7be-…). What makes this even worse is that Iran's strike on this was retaliation after Israel attacked their South Pars gas field which draws from the same natural gas reservoir, which is the world's largest by far (9,700 km² - about the size of Qatar itself). Heck, on the list of the 25 largest natural gas fields (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_n…) this single reservoir holds roughly 40% of their combined recoverable reserves - and is nearly 6 times bigger than the 2nd biggest field in the world. And, unlike many of the others on the list, it's only at 10% depletion (meaning 90% of the gas is still there). Which means that, probably for many years, a huge share of the gas from the world's largest reservoir simply won't be extractable, as infrastructure on both sides - Qatar's and Iran's - has now been blown up. From a global energy supply perspective, we're deep into worst-case scenario territory.

Part II of our symposium on the American-Israeli war on Iran. Kate Mackenzie on the long-term effects of the closing of the Strait of Hormuz on oil markets and petrostates Patrick Bigger and Kevin Cashman on the Omnicidal Fossil Empire break-down.org/oil-war-ii/

Paying energy firms to cancel wind farms and invest in gas plants is nasty work

@fredstaffordcs @amn3siak wildly beautiful reference

@amn3siak Cause she had a LARGE LOAD And you got your day-ahead ALL THE WAY UP IT!

“Stop loving power markets”

Big picture, the Ramadan War is a classic 21st c climate war. Not a war over CO2 emissions, but a war over the organization of energy, fossil energy in particular, waged as a battle over the infrastructure that extracts and moves fossil fuels & related resources across the earth.

The described commitment to developing, spreading, and synthesizing knowledge and knowhow is so different from the dominant ethos of extraction in American business and politics

Incredible post. I had no idea the industrial policy that helped spawn the world's biggest semiconductor manufacturer traces directly back to the New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority.

What is to be done? Voters are more excited about cracking down on utility price gouging than they are about building more energy infrastructure. 7/

“It’s good news.” MEMPHIS Rep. @Justinjpearson reacts to an @DataProgress poll showing he’s in a virtual tie with Rep. Cohen for the TN-9 congressional seat.

Today @Groundwork and @DataProgress released some polling we did on energy, data centers, and how government should respond. 🧵 on the key findings 1/ groundworkcollaborative.org/news/new-polli…

@kateschaller It’s beautiful!

shoutout to my drunk nonsense on Oscar night, bidding way too much on a vintage Paramount jacket, which has now kept me very warm on a freezing cold travel day from Nashville to Detroit

Geothermal energy is ready for prime time. The next step to bring it onto the grid is for utilities and PUCs in the west procure it in their integrated resource plans. New report from CPE on what utilities thinking about geothermal need to know to bring new firm power online.

The toxic pollution already unleashed by the US-Israeli war on Iran is “unprecedented” and will poison the world for decades to come environmentjournal.online/headlines/envi…

The thesis is called "The Interface of Politics" and asks: how do voters use social groups to make sense of politics? The idea is that groups work as an informational interface between voters and politics: they help people learn how policy-making aligns with their interests. 2/

anyone else lie awake at night thinking about the atlantic meridional overturning circulation collapsing

@DavidPomerantz @EnergyandPolicy congrats on the new launch!!

I started [gulp] a substack. It’s called Utility Watch, and will feature @EnergyandPolicy's research, with opinions and analysis from me. My first post is on utility profits, and why the politicians increasingly going after them are smart to do so. utilitywatch.substack.com/p/welcome-to-u…