Meredith Angwin

I encourage people to read “Shorting the Grid” in order to understand decision-making on our modern grids. amazon.com/Shorting-Grid-…

@Reed5511 Thank you for this note! 🥰

@MeredithAngwin HB1723 passed today in NH It’s a start to protect the grid from Solar weather and HEMPs Meredith, you don’t know me but your book inspired me!

New England's Grid Failed Resiliency and Burned Oil this Week New England’s power grid just reminded everyone why resiliency must come first. open.substack.com/pub/theenergyn…

@MeredithAngwin 8 GW of oil in May to keep lights on... net zero indeed 🌿 Same story unfolding in Canada - policies without infrastructure = dirtier outcomes. We need stable policy AND real investment, not just ambitious targets that leave grids burning oil.

@xiaowang1984 Maybe it’s hot in Quebec, too? Maybe Quebec’s load is growing? Maybe imports and interties have drawbacks?

On this note I was surprised that NECEC can opt to curtail exports not just in the winter but also in the summer too? The two hottest peak evenings so far this year and it goes offline? Anti reliability resource profile lol

Combined NextEra-Dominion would have 130-GW large-load pipeline "Analysts say the deal....marks a shift backward to an integrated utility model." IMO, it's not a shift "backward." It's a shift to reliability. utilitydive.com/news/nextera-d… via @UtilityDive

Thank you!

@Atomicrod @JigarShahDC @MeredithAngwin Obligation to serve meant reliability had an owner. PJM's auction comes up short. Who builds? Nobody has that mandate. Angwin identified this structural gap years ago.

@JigarShahDC @Atomicrod @MeredithAngwin 888 to 2222: each order expands participation rights. None creates delivery obligation. RTOs clear markets, can't compel generation. Swett's July conference addresses governance. Nobody has to build.

@Panhandlebound @noturbine @BillCarson2162 @NewBedfordLight @capecodtimes @lbostonfk @BostonGlobe @jonchesto @projo @hartfordcourant @EversourceCT I agree!😊

@noturbine @BillCarson2162 @NewBedfordLight @capecodtimes @lbostonfk @BostonGlobe @jonchesto @projo @hartfordcourant @EversourceCT @MeredithAngwin Thanks for mentioning the book. I've had it on my list for awhile. Time to hit buy on it.

@NewBedfordLight @capecodtimes @lbostonfk @BostonGlobe @jonchesto @projo @hartfordcourant @EversourceCT Vineyard Wind Will Never Power 400,000 Homes 24/7 File Item 6 : nameplate capacity and actual production are two distinct concepts. May 13-26 drive.google.com/file/d/1U1czxn…

@BillCarson2162 @NewBedfordLight @capecodtimes @lbostonfk @BostonGlobe @jonchesto @projo @hartfordcourant @EversourceCT I love the term "value factor." It's from @MeredithAngwin's book "Shorting The Grid." When focusing on “value factor”, which is wind energy actually coming online when it’s called upon, that number plummets for wind to about 11%. (Source: shorting the grid)

Maybe sometime soon, more pundits will acknowledge the truths contained in Meredith Angwin's @MeredithAngwin "Shorting the Grid." One of the fundamental truths is that RTOs/ISOs are not responsible for generation. They have no ownership of the resources and no authority to build them if they are needed. They also don't have any oversight that demands they provide reliable service all the way to the consumer. I'll freely admit that I pine for the pre-Enron days of rate regulated, vertically integrated monopoly utilities. The regulatory compact included an obligation to serve all customers in their service territories, reasonable profits and oversight by regulators that keep prices under control. Those utilities were not Wall St darlings, but their stocks were good investments for widows, orphans and pension funds that valued reliable dividends and modest, reasonably steady price appreciation..

A German woman proved a single theorem in 1915 that quietly became the foundation of every law of physics on Earth. She taught for seven years without pay because the University of Göttingen refused to hire a woman. Then she fled the Nazis and died in Pennsylvania at 53. I started reading about her and could not believe how much of modern physics traces back to one woman the world refused to pay for her work. Her name was Emmy Noether. The theorem is called Noether's theorem. Every law of physics ever discovered. Conservation of energy. Conservation of momentum. The Standard Model. General relativity. Quantum field theory. All of them are direct consequences of a single mathematical insight she proved 110 years ago. And most physics students will graduate without ever hearing her name once. Emmy Noether was born in 1882 in Erlangen, Germany. Her father was a respected mathematician at the local university. The university would not allow women to enroll as students. So she audited classes from the back of the room and was not allowed to receive credit for anything she learned. She finished her PhD anyway in 1907. Then she could not get a job. For seven years she worked at the Mathematical Institute in Erlangen without a single paycheck. She supervised students. She published papers. She filled in for her aging father when he was too sick to teach. She did the work of a full professor and was paid nothing. There was no policy preventing her payment. There was simply no precedent for paying a woman. In 1915 David Hilbert and Felix Klein invited her to Göttingen, the most important mathematics department in the world. Hilbert wanted her there because he was working on Einstein's new general relativity and there was a problem nobody could solve. The philosophy faculty blocked her hiring. They argued returning soldiers should not learn from a woman. Hilbert stood up in the faculty meeting and said the line that has echoed for a century. He did not see how the sex of the candidate could be an argument against her admission, because the university senate was not a bathing establishment. She still was not hired. So Hilbert listed her courses under his own name on the official schedule. She taught them under his title. This is how the most important mathematician of the 20th century was forced to operate for years inside one of the most prestigious universities in the world. That same year she solved Hilbert and Einstein's problem. The puzzle was technical. In general relativity, energy did not seem to be conserved the way classical physics required. Einstein could not figure out why. Hilbert could not figure out why. Noether figured out why in a few months. Then, instead of just solving their specific problem, she proved a much deeper theorem that solved every problem of that shape forever. Her result was this. Every continuous symmetry in a physical system corresponds to a conservation law. If the laws of physics do not change over time, energy must be conserved. If they do not change with location, momentum must be conserved. The conservation laws were not separate facts. They were inevitable consequences of the symmetries underneath the universe. This single theorem is the foundation of every law of physics ever discovered after her. The Standard Model is built on it. The Higgs boson Nobel Prize is built on it. Quantum field theory is built on it. Einstein read her paper and wrote to Hilbert that he was astonished. He had never met anyone with her capacity for abstract thought. She finally got a paid teaching position in 1923. She was 41. She had been doing professor-level work for 16 years without compensation. While the German physicists kept getting credit for the consequences of her theorem, she quietly founded modern abstract algebra. The structures we now call Noetherian rings are named after her. Modern algebraic geometry, the math that powers cryptography and parts of machine learning, runs on her foundations. Then the Nazis came. In 1933 she was fired for being Jewish. Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania offered her a position. She took it. She taught there for two years that were among the most productive of her life. In April 1935 she went in for routine surgery to remove an ovarian cyst. Complications developed. She died four days later. She was 53. Einstein wrote a public letter to the New York Times the day after her death. He said she was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began. Almost nobody reading that letter knew her name. She is buried in the courtyard of the library at Bryn Mawr College. The grave is small. Most students walk past it without noticing. The woman who built the mathematical foundation of modern physics was paid almost nothing for almost all of it. The world she worked in told her every single day that she did not belong there. She built it anyway.

Thank you. 🙏🏻

@EdKodzis @fred5471 The reasoning here is so convoluted that it is impossible to follow.

Absolutely Crazy reasoning for special heat pump rates!!! We have winter peak demand now not summer...we have to burn oil peak shavets..@MeredithAngwin @fred5471 New winter rates saved at least $37M for Massachusetts… | Canary Media share.google/iivf05lpTZkTdV…

Just looking at the way people are excusing and minimising these attacks is disgusting and an illustration of the depth of the problem Today I've been called a vile disgusting Jew, told to move to Israel and told I have no right to stay in the UK I'm not actually Jewish. I'm a UK citizen. I was born in the UK as were my parents But it goes to show how deep the rot is I still stand with British Jews

@MeredithAngwin @YouTube Hallelujah for Nuclear Resurgence. I knew Little Bill would be right in the end. Tweet-tweet.

Full On Communications celebrated its 10th anniversary with this video. Jarret Adams and I have known each other for years. Happy to see the company he founded doing well! Nuclear Resurgence youtu.be/hsVuIbpM_ec?si… via @YouTube

My post from November 2024. meredithangwin.substack.com/p/goodbye-to-c…

FERC orders American Efficient to pay $1.1B for ‘brazen fraud’ Finally, many of PJM payments for Energy Efficiency described as the result of Brazen Fraud. I deeply questioned those payments.I'm not FERC, so I didn't say "fraud." utilitydive.com/news/ferc-amer… via @UtilityDive

@MeredithAngwin @roroMyboat_22 Incidentally, we've been having some voltage "dancing" these past couple of weeks. During the sunniest hours of the day. Odd, that.