David Krause

Shakespeare foreshadows climate change

Here is a piece about plastic flow at the atomic level. "Imagine dropping a tennis ball onto a bedroom mattress. The tennis ball will bend the mattress a bit, but not permanently–pick the ball back up, and the mattress returns to its original position." www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2022-02-2…

🥳SLAC is turning 60 this year (but we don't think we look a day over 59🤷). To celebrate, we're digging into our archives to look back on some of the lab's most exciting moments. Today we're reflecting on the storied life of our 2-mile-long linear accelerator, or linac for short

This week will be my last as an energy journalist covering California. Thanks for reading and to CEM. Joy to say my writing journey continues to @SLAClab. Electrons, photons, tunnels, waves, sound, silence, the unknown.

In 2032, California’s electric grid will be 86 percent greenhouse-gas-free, CPUC member Clifford Rechtschaffen said at the commission's voting meeting today.

"Earth hosts roughly 64,100 known tree species. But there could be at least 73,300..." sciencenews.org/article/tree-s…

California residents will consume about twice as much electricity in 2035 as in 1990, a forecast that reflects a growing push to electrify transportation, buildings and even landscaping equipment- in CEM No. 1677 from @davidekrause. newsdata.com/california_ene…

Consumption. In 2035, annual residential electricity consumption in California is projected to have more than doubled from 1990 total, a report from the California Energy Commission found. Same story with commercial consumption.

Energy researchers in California are looking for new ways to manage residents' electricity consumption in order to use up more of the state's excess solar power- in CEM No. 1646 from @davidekrause. newsdata.com/california_ene…

Judge's Alsup's final probation letter to PG&E reads like the opening of a Steinbeck novel. "Almost all of the survivors of these fires are still waiting for compensation. Many hundreds who lost their homes endure in travel trailers because they have not yet been compensated.”

The @californiapuc is pushing forward two proposed battery energy storage facilities in Central California instead of upgrading existing nearby transmission lines, citing a lower cost for the battery storage projects- in CEM No. 1674 from @davidekrause. newsdata.com/california_ene…

The @californiapuc is proposing a cap of 38 million metric tons annually on greenhouse gas emissions from the state's electricity sector by 2030, down from a 42-MMT GHG target set in 2018- in CEM from @davidekrause. newsdata.com/california_ene…

Wow. Cal Fire's cost to fight the Dixie Fire was $646 million, a Cal Fire spokesperson told me today.

CPUC is proposing new emissions goal for electricity sector. Many new energy resources required. Notes: -40% increase in nameplate capacity of electric system by 2030. -All natural gas resources are retained through 2045. CA plans on 100% zero-carbon electricity by 2045 (SB 100)

This week, fire officials determined that a PG&E powerline contacted a tree and started CA's single largest wildfire, the Dixie, in July. PG&E's probation judge said, “I hate to end probation feeling as if PG&E is continuing to be a menace to society, but it's true." Story soon

The Top Ten energy-related stories in the Golden State in 2021, as compiled by the @CEMnewsdata staff! (@davidekrause, @FordneyEnergy, @energy_abigail and Linda Dailey Paulson). newsdata.com/california_ene…

CA “is a place in which a boom mentality & a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things better work here, because here, beneath the immense bleached sky, is where we run out of continent.

Where I Was From is a book that helped me better see where I was from. Didion wrote as one should: with determination and measure. Pass her books along through time.

Better transmission planning and more prevalent demand-response programs will be key to ensuring California's electric grid stays reliable and equitable, experts said at a @CalEnergy symposium- from @davidekrause. newsdata.com/california_ene…

The @californiapuc this week approved three large energy storage projects that should be on line by August 2022, potentially shortly before electricity supply issues are projected to hit the Golden State- in CEM No. 1672 from @davidekrause. newsdata.com/california_ene…

@californiapuc Fines @SCE $110 Million for Deadly Wildfires, Despite 'Black Box' Concerns- in CEM No. 1672 from @davidekrause. newsdata.com/california_ene…