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Indian state govt: We don't want to build new coal power plants, because they are more expensive than renewables plus batteries.

US federal govt: Take my money and keep those expensive, polluting coal plants running.

Thanks! To be clear it is necessary but it can be done much more intelligently using grid enhancing technologies, advanced conductors, batteries!

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My sense is that nuclear will need to maintain its global marketshare for decades to come which will mean tripling GWs so that seems like a lot of work.

Geothermal, NG plus CCS, long duration energy storage will have to also scale up.

Solar/Wind/batteries will keep being the workhorse.

Once you’ve committed to spend $100 billion domestically wouldn’t you want to leverage that supply chain to extend nuclear power projects across the world?

If they wanted to be an energy superpower in nuclear they could actually do that. But right now they are not on track to leveraging their $100B in nuclear investments to accomplish that.

Clean Energy accounted for all electricity growth this year. Gas/Coal were basically a wash and will be for years to come for electricity generation.

We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.

How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom Tech companies are turning to natural gas to help power the growing number of U.S. data centers. Jigar Shah, a former top Energy Department official, explains how installing batteries instead can help...

Tech companies are turning to natural gas to help power U.S. data centers.

Jigar Shah, a former top Energy Department official, explains how installing batteries instead can strengthen the power grid, trim electric bills, and help curb emissions.

I went to a State school.

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@jigarshahdc.bsky.social you shared this on LI, is this something 🇨🇦 do their own liftoff report series on? My concern is that there's no coordination of getting these operation regs. Stakeholders like Gov, regulator(s), IPE, etc should get this into the curriculum, equivalency.

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Batteries simple help to shift peaks so that you can use the existing infrastructure more cost effectively. Most of our distribution wires could double their capacity utilization.

You still need to build out all of the generation folks were going to do. But you save $550b in wire/substation capex

Good reading here. Many applications for energy storage.

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Exactly. As you get load growth on the distribution circuit you have to shave the 100 hours of peak load or upgrade the circuit. Shaving the 100 hours is 90% cheaper than the upgrade and it uses the existing distribution more cost effectively. So you could get a rate reduction for everyone.

Bill Gates caused a climate meltdown — Open Circuit After Bill Gates dropped a new climate manifesto, the internet did what it always does: lost its mind. Conservatives claimed victory, progressives accused him of selling out, and somewhere in the midd...

Epic rant from @jigarshahdc.bsky.social on Bill Gates. If you think you’ve heard enough about the memo already, you probably have. But you should listen to this. Deploy. Deploy. Deploy. (13:20 start)

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Clean Energy accounted for all electricity growth this year. Gas/Coal were basically a wash and will be for years to come for electricity generation.

We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.

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After Jamaica’s Disastrous Storm, Solar Power Is a Bright Spot

More of this please! Great example of how an emissions mitigation investment can also help with adaptation and resilience.

Illinois to add 3 GW of batteries, saving consumers $12 billion over 20 years Illinois is set to issue procurements for 3 GW of battery storage, under a bill expected to be signed by Governor JB Pritzker. Transmission improvements to speed renewable deployment are also in the w...

Illinois: $1 billion in battery investment will save consumers $13 billion in capacity costs.

This is what @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and I have been talking about the past years. As capacity costs rise while battery costs plummet, we will see more of this.
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"Bill Gates can get f*cked and we should stop listening to him on climate."

True - and no billionaire can try to dictate form any longer. A reckoning of centralised versus decentralised power is coming.

Bill Gates caused a climate meltdown

This is an absolute banger of a takedown of Bill Gates' latest memo from an apoplectic @jigarshahdc.bsky.social, who brought a box full of receipts.

[tl;dl version - 'Bill Gates can get f*cked and we should stop listening to him on climate']

It's my fave so far of a lot of excellent reax.
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Billie Eilish. "Why are you a billionaire?" Damn good question Billie, damn good question.

What Politics Can & Can't Do for Climate with Jigar Shah YouTube video by Climate Chat

Sunday 11/9 at 10am on Climate Chat "What Politics Can & Can't Do for climate" with @jigarshahdc.bsky.social. We will cover a wide range of topics from new energy sources to why administrations find it so hard to act on climate.
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YouTube video by Fossil Free Media The Light Won't Dim | Solar Power & Clean Energy Documentary

The Light Won't Dim | Solar Power & Clean Energy Documentary – with leaders like Senator Bernie Sanders, climate activist Bill McKibben, clean energy innovator Jigar Shah, revealing both obstacles and growing momentum for clean energy — resilience, equity, future hope www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDK-...

If large loads lower rates, how can data centers do the same? In some states, big new loads have moderated prices — even as grid hardening and extreme weather costs drive them up elsewhere.

This week on Open Circuit, Stephen Lacey, Jigar Shah and Caroline Golin, CEO of Envision Energy Advisors, explore a surprising trend: in some states, big new loads have actually lowered retail electricity rates. Can data centers do the same? 🎧 Listen here: www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...

graphic: Tesla proposed a $1 trillion pay package with 12 tranches [now passed by shareholders] and for Musk to get the first tranche, Tesla must achieve: * $2 trillion in market capitalization PLUS any one of * $50 billion Ebitda (a measure of earnings) * 20 million cars delivered * 1 million robots sold * 1 million robotaxis in operation * 10 million Full Self Driving subscriptions

easy to miss in the punditry about Musk's pay package:

he only becomes a trillionaire if he meets *a bunch* of milestones

payouts begin at $2 trillion market cap + other conditions

here's a handy graphic

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Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.

On what topics?

@jigarshahdc.bsky.social please do a podcast with Tim Echols. Do an odd couple style thing. It would be great!