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Scott Elias

@ScottySolar

Policy & Market Development @CleanCapital_. Energy nerd. Political junkie. Making American energy cleaner, faster. @SEIA & @Energy_Leaders alum. Views = my own.

Katılım Ocak 2012
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Jesse D. Jenkins@JesseJenkins·
It's also the correct one. "American Energy Dominance" can't ignore one of the cheapest and fastest growing sources of American energy.
Morgan Lyons@morgan_tigers

Uhhh... this is quite a tone shift from the Trump admin 👀 "Interior indicated in its statement that it considers solar part of the admin’s ongoing efforts to ramp up domestic energy production, which is needed to power energy-intensive data centers..." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews…

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Katie Miller
Katie Miller@KatieMiller·
83% of all voters agree that solar energy should be used in the United States to strengthen and increase the nation’s energy supply. China is rapidly scaling their solar as energy demands continue to increase. We need to do the same.
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Morgan Lyons
Morgan Lyons@morgan_tigers·
They know clean energy tax credits are phasing out and their subsidy talking point goes away. They're terrified that solar + batteries will keep winning in the marketplace. And of course they still cling to & obfuscate 100+ yr-old hidden fossil fuel subsidies in the tax code.
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Morgan Lyons
Morgan Lyons@morgan_tigers·
Hacks like @AlexEpstein will never admit it, but they’re terrified of market competition from cheaper, faster to build solar + batteries.
Alex Epstein@AlexEpstein

Solar + storage powers no homes besides off-grid homes. On all the other homes, let alone major businesses, they're freeloading off the reliable power sources they depend on. And off the taxpayers they loot. BTW batteries are great if you charge them with reliable power.

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Scott Elias@ScottySolar·
@ryan_sw @elonmusk No one expects solar to serve as the main resource during multi-day winter reliability events, and its winter ELCC appropriately reflects that. The grid doesn’t need to be planned by requiring any single resource to perform in all conditions.
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Ryan Stanton ⚡️🛻
Ryan Stanton ⚡️🛻@ryan_sw·
Serious question for determining the upper limit of solar adoption: under what scenario could solar + storage can meet demand during winter storms like Fern? What size batteries would be needed to ride through multi-day winter events? And what’s the capital cost and associated LCOE for a scenario like this? Winter-peaking regions pose a major challenge for solar adoption beyond say ~20% of net annual generation. Case in point: During WS Fern, the Tennessee Valley saw multiple consecutive cloudy days (with snow + freezing rain), followed by extended severe cold. Throughout a 5 day period (1/23-1/27) Nashville had near-continuous cloud cover and an average temp of 21F. The ~1500 MW of solar on TVA’s system contributed virtually no generation during this period. Same challenge exists for the rest of the Northeast, Midwest, and parts of the Southeast, where 50% of the population lives. Solar is a much easier sell for summer-peaking regions like California, Texas, and Florida (where influential solar advocates like @Elonmusk and @chamath happen to live). But when residents in the rest of the country depend on electricity for heating the most, solar is completely absent. It’s nuclear, gas, coal, and hydro that keeps homes warm.
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Katie Miller
Katie Miller@KatieMiller·
Solar is now the dominant source of new U.S. power capacity and is on track to surpass coal in total installed capacity before the end of 2026. 70 GW of new solar capacity is scheduled to come online in 2026–2027 → a 49% increase in operating solar capacity from the end of 2025.
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Simon Mahan
Simon Mahan@SimonMahan·
Being angry that wind power is 'only' providing 5% of New England's power is like being upset that your restaurant can't get enough produce from your backyard garden. We haven't planted enough, yet.
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Senator Thom Tillis
Senator Thom Tillis@SenThomTillis·
A sycophant is more than just a "yes-man." It refers to someone who acts excessively servile toward someone important in order to gain an advantage. They aren't just being nice, they are using excessive flattery, often insincerely, to get what they want, whether that's a promotion, social status or favor. Some characteristics: The motive is self-interest. They aren't praising you because they like you; they're doing it because you have something they want. The behavior is over the top fawning, or constant agreement (including when you're wrong). Common Synonyms: toady, flunky, bootlicker. Some parallels for movie buffs: Grima Wormtongue (the Stephen Miller of Lord of the Rings) is an advisor to King Theoden. He uses whispers and false flattery to control the King’s decisions, all while secretly serving Saruman. He is a classic example of a sycophant who uses his position to poison a leader's standing for his own benefit. Dolores Umbridge (the Kristi Noem of Harry Potter) is an example of a bureaucratic sycophant. She is terrifyingly sweet while she is around those she considers her superiors and she sucks up to authority to gain the power she needs to bully those "beneath" her.
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Scott Elias@ScottySolar·
@johnarnold @grid_status Solar isn’t a strong winter peak resource, but that doesn’t make it a bad grid resource. It delivers energy, supports summer reliability, relieves congestion, and cuts fuel risk. We can keep peakers for rare extremes and otherwise run the grid on cleaner resources.
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John Arnold
John Arnold@johnarnold·
Minimizing emissions is important and should be one of the goals of the energy system. And yet, we have to be honest about where wind+solar+batteries are today on a very cold day in the northeast. Everything below the red line is conventional generation. via @grid_status
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Sarah Longwell
Sarah Longwell@SarahLongwell25·
This used to be the very thing conservatives claimed to be against — masked federal agents, uninvited and unwanted by the state, killing American citizens in the street for practicing their 1st and 2nd Amendment rights.
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Sarah Longwell
Sarah Longwell@SarahLongwell25·
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." (Video: @DropSiteNews)
The Bulwark@BulwarkOnline

Greg Bovino: "An individual approached U.S. Border Patrol agents with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun. The agents attempted to disarm the individual, but he violently resisted. Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, a Border Patrol agent fired defensive shots…This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement."

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Scott Elias@ScottySolar·
Great coverage of CleanCapital’s Yeoman Project: community solar turning a former Superfund site into clean energy, affordability, and savings for Illinois families. canarymedia.com/articles/solar…
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James Talarico
James Talarico@jamestalarico·
Last year, Trump promised American oil executives “a great deal” if they donated $1 billion to his campaign. Today, he gave them Venezuela — home to the largest oil reserves in the world. This new war is not only illegal and reckless; it is deeply corrupt.
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Sean Casten
Sean Casten@SeanCasten·
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is really bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: nytimes.com/2025/12/18/opi…
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Ben Norris
Ben Norris@BenNorrisIV·
“While the solar industry values the continued bipartisan engagement on permitting reform, the SPEED Act, as passed out of committee, falls short of addressing this core problem: the ongoing permitting moratorium”--@HopperAbby
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