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New analysis shows more US consumers are falling behind on their utility bills A new analysis of consumer data shows that more people in the United States are falling behind on their utility bills.

Past due balances to utility companies jumped 9.7% annually to $789 between the April-June periods of 2024 and 2025, said The Century Foundation, a liberal think tank, and the advocacy group Protect Borrowers. That overlapped with a 12% jump in monthly energy bills during the same period.

Capturing the elusive FERC EQR - Catalyst Cooperative With support from GridLab, Catalyst is creating a open, cloud-native version of the electricity market data recorded in the FERC EQR.

A short blog with some more details on our new project to create an analysis-friendly version of the huge @ferc.gov EQR electricity transaction dataset, with support from GridLab @ricoconnell.bsky.social #EnergySky #OpenData

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IL just has an absolutely massive amount of coal (varying quality and depth), but also some of the most productive farmland on the planet, which is also helpful in not having as many mines as might otherwise exist

I’m at COP30 in Belém, covering adaptation, just transition and the mitigation work programme.

Lots still happening - particularly with adaptation finance, GGA indicators and a potential just transition action mechanism

Drop me a message if you want to chat about any of these topics

🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 @newrepublic.com is hiring a Reporter-Researcher to work primarily as a fact checker, and is also encouraged to pitch ideas and write. www.journalismjobs.com/1691910-repo...

New England expected to have sufficient electricity supplies this winter - ISO Newswire ISO New England uses numerous forecasts and analyses to project weather, expected demand for electricity, and the supply available to meet that demand.

ISO New England, the region’s electric grid operator, anticipates having sufficient resources to meet consumer demand for electricity this winter.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3XyFREp

#ISONewEngland #WinterOutlook #WinterEnergy #GridReliability

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Severe solar storms could hit Earth, space forecasters say. Here's how to see auroras The vibrant displays could be visible across much of the northern U.S., and as far south as Alabama and Northern California.

Tomorrow's space weather experience could be ~exciting~ if it causes high geomagnetic induced currents in the power grid.

"When fast-moving particles and plasma slam into Earth’s magnetic field, they can temporarily disrupt the power grid."

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Autumn has arrived. 🍂 Listen to Robert Frost’s "Gathering Leaves" — a quiet meditation on raking, repetition, and the season’s small joys.

🍁 For more, hear Frost’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, read by LibriVox volunteers.
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#poetry

Wishing a happy Veterans Day to all who served.

Great portraits here of centenarian WWII vets by Maxine Wallace. wapo.st/4p277a7

Climate Tech Pivots to Europe With policy chaos and disappearing subsidies in the U.S., suddenly the continent is looking like a great place to build.

as U.S. climate tech founders and funders face dwindling capital and policy whiplash, many are looking to europe, with its ambitious yet stable climate policies, as an attractive beachhead market

23 of 50 states currently are seeing higher #gasprices than a year ago: AK, WA, CA, OR, AZ, NV, OH, ID, IN, IL, NJ, DE, MD, MI, WV, MN, UT, RI, CT, OK, WI, KY, MO

Your electric bill will rise in NC. Here’s how, and who’s to blame. | Opinion No one wanted this free money from the federal government to go away. But, you still have a chance. | Opinion

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Turns out she’s a highly motivated political activist in pursuit of a particular agenda, which should’ve been foreseeable since she was, y’know, taking a case to the Supreme Court.

Its instructive that Kim Davis was introduced through the press initially as someone who simply wanted to be allowed to honor her religious convictions reasonably.

Someone you know relies on SNAP. They just don't talk about it Two years before she went on public assistance, Joanna Rakoff had a best-selling novel that won literary awards. She presented like a middle class working mom. But in reality, she was struggling — wor...

Make sure you read this important and powerful essay from @joannarakoff.bsky.social in @cogwbur.bsky.social

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A new 500 MW customer -- most likely, another data center -- is proposing to come to Fort Wayne, according to a new AEP submission. Its ~10 miles away from a 1,200 MW Google data center under construction.

I'm so excited to be kicking off the COPOut Podcast! Details are below. Tune in to hear conversations with @laurengifford.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @davidho.bsky.social @magnoliae.bsky.social @pammcelwee.bsky.social @lisaschipper.bsky.social and more!

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High electric bills proved a motivating issue for voters in Georgia, New Jersey From Georgia to New Jersey, rising electricity bills were on millions of voters’ minds as they cast ballots on Tuesday.

“This was a referendum on Georgia Power and high electric bills,” said Daniel Tait, research and communications director at the nonprofit utility watchdog group @energyandpolicy.org

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we hope!

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skyline cleanse:

the base of the democratic party is black women.

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and the summers are getting hotter and hotter

spanfeller makes an oblique data center reference in her speech about making big energy users pay their fair share, to thunderous applause