Katharine Fraser

The Hilton donated the ~2600 dinners that went unserved at WHCD. They freeze dried the steak and lobster for longer shelf life before giving them to 2 shelters for abused women and children. HUGE thank you to the staff that worked through the night under terrible circumstances.

@DylanByers Wow. When I lived in Woodley Park 1999-2006, Murphy’s Bar always had CNN an C-Span on, especially the latter during voting at night. That’s just sad. The whole purpose of Washington is politics.

One small state-of-the-culture observation on last night…. Shortly after leaving the Hilton, where a gunman attempted to enter the room in which the President, Vice President, several cabinet members, congressmen, dignitaries, business executives, and hundreds of America’s leading journalists were gathered, I went to a bar with a small group of colleagues to touch base, get our bearings, and, ideally, watch the news coverage. When I lived in Washington a decade ago, bars like this one usually had at least one TV tuned to CNN or Fox News. These TVs were on a hockey game, and no one in the bar seemed aware of what had just taken place mere blocks away. We asked a bartender to change the channel to CNN so we could watch the president’s briefing with captions, which they did. But then, a few minutes later, the bartender said he’d been informed by the manager that the bar had a policy against showing political content, and he’d have to go back to sports. I tried to imagine what this bar might have looked like on March 30, 1981, an hour or so after Hinckley fired shots at Reagan at the very same hotel. I imagine every television would have been on CNN or the wall-to-wall special coverage on the broadcast networks, and that passers by would have come in to watch, as well. The media is giving this the ample coverage it deserves. But it’s unnerving how desensitized so many people have become—to shootings, obviously, but also to political violence and the abnormality of the moment. Maybe I’m wrong, maybe we just picked the wrong bar. But I doubt it. Pew Research recently reported that attention to news in the U.S. has declined across all age groups since 2016, and that young adults (ages 18 to 29) have consistently had the lowest levels. Even as the news itself intensifies—in politics, geopolitics, technology, etc—more and more people seem to be tuning it out. And I suppose this is how you find yourself in a bar in the nation’s capital, an hour after crouching behind a chair as secret service members evacuate the President of the United States from the room, being told that you’ll have to watch Penguins vs. Flyers.

@Ben_Geman @CSIS Why didn’t I think of this at first?: It takes two to contango

Investors and media have often dated Brent but married futures (thanks, I'll be here all week). A lucid new @CSIS primer explores this dynamic and why it sends false signals — a hot topic these days. Link in next post. #OOTT #IranWar‌ #energy

@Ben_Geman @CSIS Is there a cash WTI fling in our future?

Solar met 75% of global electricity demand growth in 2025. Clean power covered all new demand, so fossil generation didn’t rise for the first time since 2020. Solar electricity is on track to become by far the biggest source of power.

Startup Nuclear Co. is seeking to build a reactor in South Carolina in what would be one of the first US efforts to develop a large, conventional nuclear facility in more than a decade. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@jaeporeon I just wrote to colleagues all energy news is data center news

it’s just absolutely baffling to me how quickly data centers have totally changed energy and climate journalism

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@alphaman_111 Reminds me of my high school AP French teacher’s response when we complained she scheduled a test for a day when we already had two other AP tests and a paper due: she said when she was our age, she was in hiding from Nazis working for the French resistance.

On day 1 of my high school history class, our professor got up and said You are 15 or 16 years old. 200 years ago people your age were married, planted crops, had children, and built a cabin by winter. You can do your homework. The bar set for you historically is embarrassingly low. You are not dealing with regional famine or plague. You do not have to save your family from marauders or go into battle to destroy your enemies. You have to sit down and learn from someone who cares about you in a safe, air-conditioned room. You have no excuses.

25 years ago, Invenergy started with a simple, disciplined idea: build innovative energy infrastructure that made sense and always focus on execution. Building on decades of experience in energy development and engineering, our founders laid Invenergy’s foundation in natural gas generation back in 2001. As new technologies emerged, we approached them the same way—pragmatic and always disciplined in development and execution. Today, that approach has led to Invenergy developing more than 220 projects and 38 gigawatts across solar, land-based wind, energy storage, transmission and domestic manufacturing. Led by decades of expertise, industry relationships, and powered by an industry-leading, innovative workforce, these first 25 years reflect the system-wide thinking and execution it takes to become the largest privately held independent power producer in North America. Throughout the year, we'll be marking Invenergy’s 25th anniversary by sharing the growth and milestones that have made Invenergy a trusted partner and energy innovator—today and in the future.

If you think the data center news flow is exponentially expanding, you are not imagining it! Keeping up is like drinking from a firehose!

Really wish I was at #CERAWeek this year!

Good thing it’s not happening on April Fools Day

I can’t remember what we were talking about before this Iran thing but it must have been important…

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As part of our ongoing celebration of Women's History Month, we are delighted to share that Natalia Garza from our Latin America team is the proud recipient of the Women in Transformative Leadership Award for #RRHHDigital #AwardsofHappiness and #ManpowerGroup Nat's leadership combines global vision, talent development and commitment to the future. She consistently brings strategic thinking to her work at #Clarios, where innovation, sustainability and talent are truly nurtured. Gracias and felicitations, Nat! #PoweredByClarios #PowerPerformancePossibility #WomenWhoLead #WomensHistoryMonth

Big clean energy day in TX with solar leading the way and providing 62% of the grid’s power right now. TX solar alone could be fully powering ISONE or NYISO or CAISO or 99% of SPP. ☀️⚡️

@MichaelEWebber And your house cost $3 billion to build