Kenneth Colburn

@drvolts @OctopusEnergy I hope Octopus will also operate in the parts of the US served by “organized markets” rather than vertically integrated utilities. Please ask/push in that direction!

@SeanCasten Bingo, Sean. Grade A executives hire Grade A executives. Grade B executives hire Grade C executives.

This is scary and highlights something that's painfully obvious in DC: smart people either don't want to work in this administration or are being turned away. But effective government - esp when crisis strikes - depends on having smart people around. washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

@DMoKreis What?? Say it ain’t so!

Cue the drones and helicopters! Eversource gets ratepayer advocates booted from review of its $400 million NH transmission project. oca.nh.gov/news-and-media…

@samstein @drvolts Weird.

"I really want you to think about this for a minute. Do you know anyone in your life who would pose for a photo in a cemetery giving the thumbs-up?" thebulwark.com/p/thumbs-up-th…

Please stop equating batteries with wind and solar. Batteries are just as useful for smoothing out variable demand as they are for variable supply. Colocating batteries with variable demands improves utilization for all generators, nuclear, gas, and coal included. Smoothing out demand lowers transmission and distribution costs by increasing the amount of energy that can be transmitted over a given amount of capacity. The only difference with wind and solar is that you're then putting batteries at both ends of the grid.

@drvolts As Lee Atwater said, “If you’re explaining, you’re losing.”

@drvolts Exactly what the German establishment thought when they decided to let Hitler have a go at it.

Shot: Supreme Court Justice John Roberts in the "Chevron" decision: "Perhaps most fundamentally, Chevron’s presumption is misguided because agencies have no special competence in resolving statutory ambiguities. Courts do." Chaser:

@Rich_Glick @ClementsFERC I second that motion, Rich.

As she prepares for her final Open Meeting, I want to congratulate @ClementsFERC for a job well done. Her deep knowledge of the issues and strong committment to the public interest has been incomparable. She will be sorely missed.

Virtual power plants provide value that's very real. I learned a lot about where and how they work –– and what market rules we need to take advantage –– in this interview with Chris Rauscher (@idyllife) from @sunrun: ilsr.org/concrete-benef…

We need a new approach to #transmission. The intense focus on new power lines risks an expensive, slow, and ultimately unsuccessful path to deploying clean energy quickly and equitably, especially if we ignore the #monopoly #utility problem: vist.ly/347ff

@groundsourcegeo @drvolts Ayuh, first do no harm.

@AriPeskoe Please make this a manuscript, Ari. Kudos for shining a light on these rackets!

How is utility control over transmission blocking clean energy and raising costs? Here’s a look at allegations by renewables or transmission developers that utilities or RTOs are acting anti-competitively. The complaints are about interconnection, planning, rates, and more!

@JesseJenkins Quite right. Now the question is how much of that growth will/should come from distributed energy resources (DERs) and load-shaping vs. funded in the traditional, capital-biased, centralized utility regulation model?

It looks like Duke is *starting* to get the memo... twitter.com/JesseJenkins/s… The electricity sector has to be ready for GROWTH mode. If we can't fix interconnection process, it will be a fundamental constraint for American economic growth! (Not to mention climate progress)

@DMoKreis @GovChrisSununu Kudos to both of you for your wisdom!!

I am, indeed, honored that @GovChrisSununu concluded I should continue fighting for New Hampshire’s residential utility customers. I am eager to answer any questions I get from the Executive Council.

Where would you expect US electric utilities to be the least reliable? Based on alarmism from people like @AlexEpstein or @BrianGitt, I assumed states with lots of wind and solar would be the worst. Turns out the story is quite different. Coming soon...

“'I think it's a really big deal. I think it's underappreciated at this point.' Without batteries, 'it's likely that on Thursday night, we would have been in emergency conditions,' said Lewin, who authors the Texas Energy & Power Newsletter." #txlege scientificamerican.com/article/as-hea…

Superb piece by Luis Reyes in @UtilityDive on how Kit Carson Electric Cooperative is enhancing energy independence, installing solar+storage, generating savings for its member-owners, and positioning itself for the future. Other co-ops can do so too! utilitydive.com/news/energy-in…

RMI focusing on VPP opportunities for electric cooperatives! Hear, hear! info.rmi.org/l/310101/2023-…

@RegAssistProj Devastating. Climate change, alas, will bring many unhappy returns.

Thinking about our friends and colleagues who live in and around our U.S. office in #Montpelier #Vermont. Ongoing, historic flooding has shut down the city and neighboring communities.