tyler fitch

Lessons: 1) Having an investor-owned utility with a shoulder at the wheel can get a lot done; 2) the anti-wind vibe might be weaker than it looks; 3) let's see what else we can do with the industrial capacity (the ship! the workers!) that Dominion has built with VA ratepayers' $$

Canary inbox: Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) is nearing completion off of Virginia Beach. That's 2.6 GW--the biggest offshore wind project in the country-- in the Southeast, projected to be online in the next 6 months. we likely have the tax credit sunset to thank for it!

k-pop demon hunters: perfect film, i am revived

Iowa AG Leads Letter Questioning Legality of Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Standard The letter was sent to David Kennedy, CEO of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), a group that recently released its Financial Institutions Net-Zero standard.

dead-ender behavior. I know I'm like a decade too late on this, but if we can't develop societal anti-bodies to these performances...we're cooked. decorahnews.com/news/15338/i...

how were nerds transmuting their niche interests into aura before black sabbath? was there an aleister crowley society or something?

Feels like market maturity didn't come a moment too soon for storage, which has become a serious player on some of our grids only in the last few years

blog.gridstatus.io/caiso-batter...

From semafor: As the dust is settling on OBBB, storage is (roughly) full-steam ahead

www.semafor.com/article/07/2...

Durham, NC’s catbirds reaching just unrealistic levels of cuteness and delight rn

closely related to the EU’s right to be forgotten, right?

To me, it means we're probably underestimating data center loads' impact on reliability. And, beyond thinking more about data center flexibility, we should be thinking about how to make our power systems better share their reserves

What the data center boom means for grids | Wood Mackenzie In this first article of a two-part series, we discuss the increasing electricity demand due to the growth of data centers, particularly driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing.

I hadn't seen this stated anywhere until I came across
@woodmac.com 's article today! Check it here: www.woodmac.com/news/opinion...

Another shoe yet to drop: Data center load could really change the reliability dynamics for our systems, and AFAIK the big utilities (Southern/Duke) in the Southeast haven't re-run their reliability analyses with their shiny AI loads

this may be the most excited i’ve been to see a bluesky post to date! tylerfitchclimate@gmail.com or tyler.fitch@rmi.org if email feels right

that does seem more likely, for sure, even if IMV less likely to be in the public interest

would the state consider buying the assets at a discount and winding them down? the litigation would be insane but that seems like the most likely path to me

this is making me wonder what regulators and state policymakers might do if they started seeing evidence of a real death spiral in the rate cases. i think there’d be a lot of warning signs before we get to actual failure to pay

BREAKING: Deadlifted 3x5 at 225 on my birthday :)

Why Virtual Power Plants are a climate solution for our divided times Virtual Power Plants use the combined energy from rooftop solar and home battery systems to cut costs and emissions, creating bipartisan appeal.

Delighted to have some of our thinking about Virtual Power Plants show up in Newsweek today: newsweek.com/why-virtual-.... We're sitting on a sleeping giant of power grid resources in our cars, thermostats, and water heaters--let's tap in.

yall are having a great conversation about what causes costs on a future energy system. when should and shouldn't that be 1:1 with how families pay to use it?

Image of the Financial Times editorial, titled "The west's shameful silence on Gaza." An image depicts children with empty pots looking for food.

Grateful to the FT for posting this. It shines an honest and unkind light on the rest of us.

I can't stop thinking about the total suffering of g_zans facilitated by the US state, the representative of our collective will. In the last few week's I've heard people ask 'what you'd do if you lived under X or Y atrocious regime.' Not sure if that question's hypothetical.

ohhhhhhhkayyyyyyy the speedrun element of this is really setting in

David Roberts: Hugely respect you and see you as an energy writing Obi-wan figure, but I cannot handle that many more subject lines with "What's up with <X>?"

This Podcast Is Making Me Feel Emotional About Timbaland And Missy Elliott pca.st/episode/3225...

desire - caroline polachek

this guy sucks but this is obviously a joke. say it aloud in tuberville's accent

i want to see a list of basic stuff we're close to losing... this is a fertile moment for re-affirming that we do HUGE things for each other & we should defend em!

- I like that we do alzheimers research!
- I like that we have parks!
- I like the cfpb!

let's keep doing that stuff. let's do more!

instead of resting my brain workshops messaging now... here's what I got--

- keep our promises (to workers, to families, to the future, to the world)
- f#%@ this (could be f%#@ this or fix this! cute!)
- patch notes (for the gamers out there)

anyway hire me as a consultant

i do feel intense privilege for my email-type job but sending emails can also be legitimately exhausting

Climate change really is a "facts don't care about your feelings" situation. No matter what the gov websites say, climate/atmosphere dynamics are going to keep doing their thing, capital still needs to understand risk, and reinsurers still work to stay solvent.