Dave Kirkpatrick

The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.

Trump's jobs report retaliation Podcast Episode · Marketplace · 08/01/2025 · 27m

@kairyssdal.bsky.social good for you on telling it like it is on the job report and the crazy firing in the Friday show and congrats on 20 years of excellent journalism. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

The Cost of Carelessness: A Response to Chris Wright’s Climate Dismissal: the latest from Managing Partner @trippbaird.bsky.social on what the climate science really says & why investing in decarbonization is necessary for long-term public interest & U.S. progress.

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This is why I push back on calling gas, coal and nuclear as 'baseload power'... | Dave Kirkpatrick This is why I push back on calling gas, coal and nuclear as 'baseload power'... they are until they aren't and then you have a GW scale problem vs decentralized solar/wind/batteries/VPPs/D...

Coal, gas, nuclear... NOT base load but big generators that can unexpectedly go offline. #energysky www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour A Brief But Spectacular take on agrivoltaics

Agrivoltaics!! #energysky youtu.be/wh14fnQcgXc?...

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

Excellent essay by @billmckibben.bsky.social on solar saving the world. #energysky www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

This one’s been on our bulletin board for years, but sadly still relevant. #energysky

Opinion | How Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Will Make China Great Again

Yes. @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o... #energysky

@stephenplatt.bsky.social great work!!

The Raider by Steven Platt is a fascinating story of a New England boy who becomes a marine in China in the 1930s and is inspired by the early Red Army and later founded the first U.S. special forces - Evan Carlson. #booksky

Latest SJF news... we invest in supply chain transparency and women's health companies... and support our govtech, climate, health, energy, edtech, logistics, and impact portfolio. createsend.com/t/r-133EE185...

We support Amendment 2704 offered by Senators Ernst, Grassley and Murkowski and urge the Senator to also support it on the floor.

This amendment reverts back to the Senate Finance committee text for commenced construction and phase-out for 48E and 45Y, removes the excise tax on solar & wind that

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News Thom Tillis Defends Break From Party On Big Beautiful Bill: 'We're Rushing To An Arbitrary Deadline'

Senator Tillis of NC has been unleashed since he is not seeking reelection in these four minutes on how moving from 'commence construction' to 'placed in service' for solar & wind will strangle the grid. Call your Senators to join him in opposing this bill! youtu.be/FhSkd5ZDtnk?... #energysky

Opinion | Want to lead in AI? Then don’t kill wind and solar. GOP efforts to slash clean-energy incentives risk both national security and economic dynamism.

Excellent Matt!! www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

In plain terms, it’s designed to wipe out the US solar and wind industry. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/c...

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“There isn’t going to be a gas fired generator any time soon,” Tillis said. “You can’t get that online and the same time that [renewable] pipeline’s going down.”

First time GOP opposition over this made public in Senate debate on the reconciliation bill.

The BBB completely sacrifices 🇺🇸 clean energy economy & our future. It will likely cost us the AI battle and 100,000s of good jobs. It’s an own goal of epic proportions. More details below. Call your (gop) senators one last time to demand they stop this insanity

The Senate version of GOP's budget bill dropped in the middle of the night. Astonishingly, it got EVEN WORSE. It raises energy costs, kills $100s of billions of investment in manufacturing, makes grids less reliable, increases pollution & constrains our ability to compete w/China on AI. Loser stuff.

This is such an important final statement about how much 💰💰is ready to be invested into energy projects in 🇺🇸 and how many jobs will be created….if Congress gives projects the time & support to get built

call your senators ! It’s working! @ceforamerica.org @michael-thomas.bsky.social

Good to work w @trippbaird.bsky.social and ICM network to pull together 70+ energy investors with 1,000s of portfolio companies to urge Congress in @wsj.com to not trigger bankruptcies, job losses, write downs, blackouts, and higher bills with Reconciliation Bill. secureusenergy.org #energysky

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Tax Reform 2025 | The United States Senate Committee on Finance Tax Reform 2025

The Republican controlled Senate has released their Finance committee text. On energy policy, it improves slightly over the House bill — but it will still gut clean energy projects, killing jobs largely in Republican districts. This is a garbage bill. THREAD. 🧵
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Energy powerhouse to Republicans: Don't ‘take renewables off the table’ | Dave Kirkpatrick Excellent comments from NextEra Energy, Inc. CEO John Ketchum on problems with the Reconciliation Bill out of the House and the need for fixes in the Senate : the anticipated surge in power demand ove...

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Slide from REPEAT Project report says "Repealing tech-neutral tax credits increases electricity rates ~4-5% on average and as much as 24% in certain states."

Electricity Prices Are Surging. The G.O.P. Megabill Could Push Them Higher. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/c...
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REPEAT Project work cited here finds repeal of clean electricity tax credits could raise retail electricity rates by 4-5% on average and over 20% in some states by 2030.

Electricity Prices Are Surging. The G.O.P. Megabill Could Push Them Higher.

Yep. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/c... #energysky

Loved this book for young adults and all about a native girl surviving & thriving. #booksky

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