Luke Rappoport

Building a World Without Carbon Requires Megaproject Thinking - Roosevelt Institute One of the biggest mistakes we can make in the current moment is to assume climate change is only an environmental problem—one that we will address at some time in the future. Climate change is an eve...

Without the IRA & strategic public investments, we won’t have as much or any: new nuclear power or new geothermal power, any CCS or DAC, we’ll lose the race on fusion, we’ll lose the race on advanced energy storage. Everything is at risk. 2050 is 25 years away. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/buildin...

Alternating posts of Trump saying he’d like to send US citizens to prisons in El Salvador and videos of celebs in VIP at Coachella. Good morning!

$20 breakfast buffet at the Hyatt Regency Pittsburgh Airport hotel. A nearby table of Trump foreign service officials sing the praises of Orban and Meloni, and do an accounting of which European countries “have the least Muslims.” Eddie Kendricks’ “My People…Hold On” plays in the background.

If there was any question, I can confirm that Trump admin policies 45 days in has led major renewable development companies to essentially cut GW targets ~in half, reduce budget for developing new projects, and at times abandon plans for taking on emerging techs like green hydrogen, etc.

What are the odds that Trump knows who Lech Walesa is? 10%?

Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare

A couple chapters into @edwardfishman.bsky.social ‘s new book “Chokepoints” I couldn’t recommend it enough. Riveting story that captures the evolution of the last couple decades of geopolitics. Tons of relevant lessons for understanding the current US/Russia/Ukraine dynamic: shorturl.at/uTGGD

Removing the ITC and PTC would stifle new generation, be inflationary for the economy and lead to higher electricity costs for everyday consumers. Let’s see how deep the admins animus towards renewables really goes

Parroting the Russian geopolitical “position” more every day! Go USA!

Yet another thing Black Mirror got right

Finally a leader who understands how modern warfare works. Whichever side can deadlift more typically wins…

#energyemergency #abundance

From direct experience, this appears to be true. As Jael covers, this extends to projects that simply need the ACOE to issue a letter stating there is “No permit needed” from them for a project to proceed.

Used to be an easy request. This could halt GWs of renewables development in its tracks.

To my understanding, they’ve also halted issuing “No permit needed” letters or opinions as well

What’s the political version of this Luka Doncic trade? Trump just like, suddenly decides to place heavy tariffs on our close ally, like Canada or something?

Farewell and Thanks (Again) - Illegal Activity in the USAID Front Office Inbox Nicholas Gottlieb to amsofficercouncil, ALL, HCTM.ELR, Alpana, Danielle, Sheila, Sepideh, William, Anya, Stephanie, Lindsey - All: 4:19 PM (4 minutes ago) # Today, representatives of the Agency's front office and DOGE instructed me to violate the due process of our employees by issuing immediate termination notices to a group of employees without due process. I refused and have provided Acting Administrator Gray with written notification of my refusal. I have recommended in that written notification that his office cease ar desist from further illegal activity. It is and has always been my office's commitment to the workforce that we ensure all employees receive their due process in any of our actions. I will not be party to a violation of that commitment. I was notified moments ago that I will be placed on administrative leave, effective immediately. It has been an honor working with all of you at this Agency, which i treasure. Please be kind and considerate of my staff at hctm.eir@usaid.gov. who will be very short-staffed and pressed over the coming months. Until you hear otherwise, Kirsten Gunsolus will be acting in my absence. If you would like to stay in touch, I can be reached a wish you all the best. Sincerely, Nicholas Gottlieb Director, Employee and Labor Relations US AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT HCTM, Rm. 4.07A RRB, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20523 USAID gov | @USAID

A USAID HR director sent out this email today to staff letting them know he was placed on administrative leave.

“Today, representatives of the Agency's front office and DOGE instructed me to violate the due process of our employees by issuing immediate termination notices to a group of employees.”

PJM, Facing Capacity Shortage as Early as 2026/2027 Delivery Year, Agrees to Lower Auction Price Cap PJM Interconnection and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro have settled a lawsuit over PJM’s capacity market pricing, agreeing to lower the grid operator’s auction price cap from over $500/MW-day to $...

Time to update those forward looking curves

Hot start!

Seems bad.

Unfortunately. As I’d much, much prefer to see them win.

Goaltend appeared to be a double block, with George getting it clean first which I think would allow Yabu to then block it at any point?

Yes.

You love to see it.

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Ok a 7.0 earthquake closely off the coast of nothern California seems like an event Bluesky would best be able to cover, given the movement of scientists over here. Is anyone giving quick thoughts on level of concern? Am I correct that 7.0 is the low end of what could potentially cause a tsunami?

Forget the political art… her political analysis is SPOT ON

At least from what I’ve seen in the industry, this is a novel approach to combine agrivoltaics with wine grapes. I expect to see a lot of clever jokes about this in developer circles this week, hopefully followed very quickly by plans to pilot this concept where possible

Happiness is the coffee shop playing The Radio Dept. on a sunny Saturday

That one’s a gem

At what point is this specific thing on Nurse?