Eric Goff

Cheap power brings new industries. Higher demand leads to higher prices which leads to more solar + storage and cheaper power again. I featured the @TexasTribune's TribCast with @Ericwg on how Texas' growing power demand and supply in my R&P Picks; link in reply. #txenergy

@juliogatx Obviously the right move

This should just be municipalized by Parks, right?

@ZachBDell @basepowerco I’m having visions of people standing and clapping. Congratulations.

As the old saying goes, the first 100 MWh is the hardest…

@duncancampbell @ProfSchriemer The tank was storage the whole time. Potential energy gang.

@ProfSchriemer lol I agree, no idea why anyone would buy an electric tankless toilet

this tankless toilet has integrated battery storage throne-to-grid

We took an new industrial site in CA off-grid with solar, batteries, and gas. Everyone said it wouldn't work. After over a year of operations: ✅ faster and cheaper than grid interconnection ✅ positive savings (net of PPA and fuel) ✅ majority clean power ✅ 99%+ uptime

@jacob_mays @jabbauer @DER_Task_Force @James_McGinniss @BPBartholomew The capacity market advocates change what they like every year. It’s hard to pin them down!

@jabbauer @DER_Task_Force @James_McGinniss @ericwg @BPBartholomew Not quite what I was arguing for, which you could think of as a better version of capacity markets.

We just posted the full Power Markets panels from DERVOS with @James_McGinniss, @ericwg, @jacob_mays, @BPBartholomew, and Andy Reger. The most common question after the panel was "WTF is full strength energy pricing?!?" If you only have 5 minutes, here you go:

Today it’s a post #Dervos trip to Dallas

@juliogatx Yes we can! Microgrids can help with both of those indirectly and provide revenue instead of just costs. A tree hitting a line is less impactful if you have resources on the other side of the line too.

One important local policy implication: invest in Austin Energy. We are so fortunate to have public power but we can’t keep cheap rates and bigger transfers to the general fund while asking for more climate-related improvements like vegetation management and power line burial.

@drvolts We’re getting things done!

@James_McGinniss Sad I ended up missing it!

Favorite part of the show was when the lead singer just said "that shit works" about the battery we ran it on. This will be the norm soon enough!

@JigarShahDC Coordination will be critical. That time we built massive pipelines, interconnected utilities together so they could serve shipyards, and had a unified industrial policy.

The icon is back. Come to DERVOS to get your hands on one.

STAY TIL THE END OR DIE TRYING

Someone should figure out a way to get some factories built…

@AKMcGlinchy Seems like Austin Housing Finance Corp could do some lending here and get some wins by financing some affordable homes with less parking. AHFC has a lot of wiggle room on how they lend and invest.

I mention this in the radio version, but lenders are likely not going to sign off on a project they think has too little parking. After this story pub'd, a developer emailed me. He's building condos in 78704. He didn't want to build parking, but couldn't get financing w/o it.

@RepCasar I'd love to have all this attention on Haiti result in some real reform in how the US treats Haiti and Haitians refugees. We should have done it decades ago but we can do it now.

A Project 2025 board member just told me it’d be better “in the long run” if Haitians were enslaved & colonized for 30 more years. THIS is who is behind Trump’s Project 2025.

@duncancampbell getting someone doing this work in Pakistan on the pod would be pretty dope.

The distributed solar story in Pakistan is nuts!! It's now the third largest importer of solar in the world and basically all of it isn't a part of the utility system. All of this is in response to the central planners that run the national grid making decisions that ended up jacking up rates via bad debt. There's so much distributed solar being installed that the utility system is seeing a meaningful decline in demand. It went down 9% over the past year. They're worried about a death spiral. Despite the national grid being concerned, provinces are leaning in. Punjab and Sindh provinces are going as far as to give away solar panels to people who can't afford grid electricity. ft.com/content/69e4cb…

Solar power is growing in TX and so is TSPA. Excited to bring Bri to the TSPA team. Her experience and relationships will serve us well in the Texas Capitol. Look forward to working closely with her, John Pitts, Jr. and the member company lobby team. #txsolar #txenergy

@duncancampbell I assume all the induction stoves inside are fully dispatchable.

DERVOS is going to be lit this year

This will be so much fun.