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Energy nerd. Parent.
Photos comparing 6:30am in Boston on October 26 per Daylight Saving Time (pitch black) versus Standard Time (bright sky).
DST is why most Americans wake by alarm in darkness. Permanent Standard Time would let us sleep longer and awaken naturally to sunlight, for health!
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We need a better way to elect representatives.
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Don't fall for the primary energy fallacy. We care about energy services, not how much energy we waste to get them.
1 solar exajoule (EJ) = 3 EJ of primary coal, oil and gas.
Vast majority of "rejected energy" below is waste heat from thermal power plants and combustion engines.
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GAS TURBINE SHORTAGE 🚨⚡
Orders for turbines for natural gas power plants are vastly outpacing supply, threatening the world’s ability to keep pace with rising electricity demand
🧵 Thread on how we got here and what it means for power-hungry nations
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Am I doing this right? How does a middle-aged energy nerd do memes? #EnergySky
02.10.2025 23:56 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
1) people in Boulder are drinking craft beer, not Chardonnay.
2) Solar is less expensive than coal. So pushing coal is likely to drive up electricity prices even faster.
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For those wondering how to respond to those saying we only use electricity for part of our energy needs, this is a reminder that there is more than one way to do things and we'll end up doing more with electricity because the technology has more room for advancement.
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We need to let Congress know what is at stake. Learn more and take action at the link below. Take action yourself and also tell your friends, family, colleagues, and business partners to do the same.
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What's more, this bill would derail most of our new expected electricity supply over the next 5 years. That puts other new factories, housing development and the AI race at risk. These all need electricity, and we just won't have enough if this draft bill becomes law.
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Many of the 287 solar and battery factories threatened by the House reconciliation bill are in parts of the country already known as the rust belt but this term could become much more familiar to the southeast if the current draft becomes law.
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Solar (66%) and batteries (18%) made up 84% of new capacity on the grid last year! Nothing else can ramp up over the next five years so it is critical we keep solar and storage projects on the rails or else we'll find ourselves paying more for less electricity.
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FWIW, EVs use their brakes far less than ICE vehicles. There is even a renewed interest in drum brakes for EVs for this reason. Drum brake pads are sealed inside the drum which helps reduce maintenance and would seal in some dust.
14.02.2025 12:40 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's worth noting that all the nuclear capacity added there was from the two new units at Vogtle, an existing plant. And they took a looong time to develop. But solar, batteries and wind are pretty fast to develop.
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We need solar and batteries to meet growing electricity demand. Solar is more than twice as fast to build as natural gas combined cycle, four times faster than coal and 10 times faster than nuclear.
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3) The investment tax credit which supports a domestic market large enough to justify scaled manufacturing.
Read more from Solar Energy Industries Association:
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* seia.org/research-res...
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2) Domestic content tax credit to help buyers justify the still-higher cost of domestic products.
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1) Manufacturing production tax credits to help manufacturers cover the higher costs of production in the U.S.
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We now have over 50 GWdc of operational PV module manufacturing capacity in the U.S. This was almost unimaginable a few years ago but we now have three critical policies in place that have made the U.S. an attractive place to manufacture solar energy components:
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Funny enough though, having rooftop solar+battery is probably the best way to mitigate the impact of an outage for your own home.
03.02.2025 17:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0These parts are pretty important too:
“We need electrons right now and we need to unleash the American energy industry and achieve energy dominance,” Ketchum said....
...Ketchum also warned that new gas generation wouldn’t be available in large amounts until 2030.
We need more transmission regardless of the type of generation we use. More transmission capacity makes better use of any generation capacity and allows more flexibility to interconnect new loads, which we need for efficient economic growth.
03.02.2025 14:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sort of curious how they plan on correcting data entry errors now.
01.02.2025 17:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
AC, DC, GW, GWh, LCOE, PPA, FERC, NERC, LMP, ITC, PTC, oh my!
Brand new SEIA Solar and Storage Dictionary! Focus is on solar energy and energy storage but touches on some adjacent technologies such as EVs.
#EnergySky #Energy #Solar #Batteries
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This reminds me of a song from the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
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Could be fragmented building codes. There are some great manufactured homes today but is difficult to scale partly because of the way we do permitting and inspection in a hyper local way.
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Latest Solar Data Cheat Sheet
04.12.2024 16:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yep, that's right there are more 5 million solar energy systems in the U.S.
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