Jackson Parthasarathy

@CanaryMediaInc Think what you will about the future of H2, but the rules not being loose (allowing 🔵 or other) is more important than them demanding green imo. H2 could flop or be huge, but the (potentially huge) environmental downside is limited by these rules.

#2 The surge in grid batteries vs. #15 Strict rules for green hydrogen subsidies

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@ClaireWayner @DustinMulvaney One reason is that Amory (the soft path) Lovins teaches classes at Stanford

@DustinMulvaney RMI also has a partnership with Stanford and Duke for some internships. About half of our intern candidates have to come from those two schools.

I’m on a listserve where I see fantastic internships run by Stanford, some where the university pays interns to work for California state agencies, so only their students can apply.. and I can’t help but see this as another inequity in higher education and the workforce pipeline.

@duncancampbell @TimMLatimer There is no standard or enforced reliability metric. RTO’s and Utilities define their own standard, which is usually LoLE = 0.1, but this is completely arbitrary. It’s worked so far - but we need to be smarter about ELCCs and go beyond LoLE = 0.1 as the gen mix -> more renewable.

@TimMLatimer Capacity analysis, from what I can tell, is when PJM decides everything they said was true and durable a few years ago is no longer true today but we are expected to believe it will be durable this time.

There’s going to be a lot of headlines about power capacity growth in the coming years. On an increasingly variable grid with rapidly changing ELCCs, it’s going to be important to understand what capacity each analysis is talking about. Not all capacity is the same.

Grid United partners with Hitachi Energy to build power lines connecting national grids trib.al/ztHhRft

This is additionality: "Energy firm secures $588m to build huge Texas solar farm for Microsoft" This is not: "AWS just dropped $650 million on a data center built next to a 2.5 gigawatt nuclear power station"

@Astoll15 Most complex machine ever built? You clearly haven’t built any ikea furniture recently

“Why isn’t capitalism building all this cheap renewables?” It is? Have people considered that great things take time? Changing the largest, most complex machine ever built isn’t an overnight thing?

@DrChrisClack @MichaelEWebber There are many parts of Texas including El Paso, Amarillo and East Texas which are in WECC, SPP, and MISO, respectively. You don’t need to actually leave Texas to connect the grid

@MichaelEWebber Great! Now, how do we get TX around the FERC issue? Actually asking.

Our analysis (to be published soon) shows economic, environmental and reliability benefits of connecting ERCOT to neighboring grids.

@douglewinenergy @DrChrisClack @joshdr83 @MichaelEWebber @RobGramlichDC Yes, the right model doesn’t quite exist, but even the current ones that don’t capture the full stack of interregional benefits (decreased LOLe, extreme weather, consumer savings because of gen diversity, more renewables) still show a massive amount of benefits.

ERCOT CEO is now presenting on the pros and cons of connecting ERCOT to neighboring grids. Vegas is stressing the importance of modeling to assess economic costs and benefits. "Those models don't exist today." Hmm @DrChrisClack @joshdr83 @MichaelEWebber @RobGramlichDC

Posting about the ERCOT Board meeting at the link below. Lots of interesting discussion on interconnecting ERCOT to other grids, integrating more distributed energy resources, battery storage, Winter Storm Heather, etc. The CEO update is happening now. douglewin.com/chat

@BaseballQuotes1 Scott Rolen

Who is the first player you think of when you see this logo?

The US is not building enough interregional transmission because utility regulation provides the wrong incentives. Utilities dominate under the status quo and block attempts at changing the rules. We need FERC or Congress to press forward.

@duncancampbell Texas’ policy doesn’t deserve much credit, but Texas’ industry does! We lucked into world class gas, wind, and solar which is why we have cheap(ish) electricity. Energy only market keeps prices lower, but we’re also playing dice with reliability every summer/winter.

Texas doesn't get enough credit for its grid. Yes there have been some very notable reliability events. Those cannot be ignored. But we also can't ignore: It's grown demand at a 1.93% CAGR for 21 years, versus 0.7% for the US broadly. Meanwhile, rates have only increased at a CAGR of 1.53%, versus 2.55% for the US broadly. This means rates have effectively decreased, since inflation over that period was 2.4%. And this was all done while cutting coal consumption in half and growing renewables from 0% to 30% of total output.

@JesseJenkins @TimMLatimer @fervoenergy The year is 2067 and Space Geothermal + Space Solar now reach 12% of US energy mix. With the support of the Chalamet administration - Fervo’s Dyson sphere test project comes in 25% under estimated cost paving the way for…

@TimMLatimer Tim @FervoEnergy HQ: "Geothermal energy is now the ultimate power on the universe. I suggest we use it!"

Geothermal in space, you say? Hmm. Could be an interesting market… phys.org/news/2024-02-s…

@MichaelEWebber @MeganSever4 Ordered! Can’t wait to read

Hey #EnergyTwitter! My latest book is published! It's a collection of essays I authored or co-authored between 2008-2022 & I look back to check the accuracy of my predictions! Many thanks to all the other contributors and to @MeganSever4 for editing it! store.bookbaby.com/book/powering-…

We just introduced the #ConnectTheGrid Act to connect Texas to neighboring electric grids & prevent mass power outages during winter storms & heat waves. 💡 I’m grateful for these Members of Congress & organizations who are supporting our bill! 🧵👇🏽

@SimonMahan Pivot tables are the easiest way. My personal favorite is to do =unique(Time, Genreator) which will give you a clean list (might need a Sort on top of unique) and then do a Index Match to pull in the relevant data from the OG table

I need some data crunchers help. I've got a spreadsheet with 36,221 rows on a chronological basis for a lot of generators that are all in the same column. E.g., 5PM on March 5th has 47 generators operating at that time. I want to know how each generator did over a certain time. Can anyone help?

@jacob_mays @ElectricCat8 @xiaowang1984 @DrewSmithee Some industry models show value

@ElectricCat8 @xiaowang1984 @DrewSmithee It's my sense that this is a large part of the disconnect between academic models showing benefits from interregional transmission vs industry models not showing any. In this case the academic models might be wrong, but the industry models are definitely wrong.

transmission for local reliability? BAD! interregional transmission just for funsies? GOOD!

Solar production broke 16 GW for the first time ever in Texas today! A huge jump of ~10% compared to the previous all-time record in ERCOT. More records: gridstatus.io/records

@JamesHewettDC @Erb_Tom10 @DanielPalken @anaisborja The fellowship of the Grid. Need to destroy the archaic “evil” that is current energy and permitting policy by taking it up Capitol Hill (Mt. Doom) and casting it into the fire (statute)

The Senate transmission clique is deep and well staffed! Congrats to @Erb_Tom10, @DanielPalken, and @anaisborja! We are definitely watching! 👀

@drvolts He has a point though. Most people aren’t scientists (let alone climate scientists) and also don’t care about the earth’s “balance”. Some scientists do a great job of this, but lots need to do a better job relating climate change to its direct affects on people.

If we don’t limit global warming then people from Florida will have to move to other state…. Is that what you want?