Rob Gramlich

The macro grid is the natural end-state so why wait? Former PJM CEO Phil Harris : thehill.com/opinion/ener...

What happened with the blackout in Spain? Michael Goggin and Herman Trabish explain. usea.org/podcasts/use...

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Oh yea I said that about a year and a half ago. Its possible others thought of it though? I was on some zoom meeting with @brynbaker.bsky.social .

If you try and don’t quit, sometimes you get to know that you tried and didn’t quit! Kudos to Grid Strategies’ Nathan Shreve for #3 in age group. I got pulled out of the 4.4mile Cheaspeake Bay Swim along with 25% of field after 3.75mi fighting headwinds and waves. Next time.

Resource adequacy is a challenge and inter-regional transmission can help! New report, read on! gridstrategiesllc.com/wp-content/u...

See you in Boston June 12!

WEEK 16 WINS: President Trump Advances America’s New Golden Age This week, President Donald J. Trump advanced his America First agenda with remarkable successes that bolster the economy, enhance national security, and

Big transmission win touted by White House. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

I wonder what % of homeowners with rooftop solar know this. Any surveys?

Trump orders coal revival, but market favors natural gas The president signed four executive orders to reverse the trend away from coal-fired electricity in the U.S., but there's little economic incentive for utilities to bring it back when natural gas is s...

Spoke on NPR about the coal orders. www.npr.org/2025/04/16/n... . The orders ignore the role of gas in coal's demise.

I’m not seeing much practical impact. Natural gas fracking killed coal power in the US and neither this nor any previous administration is banning fracking. 9/9

On the reliability EO, DOE has no general authority to prevent retirements. They can use their temporary situational FPA 202c authority to over-ride certain environmental policies to run plants in defined emergencies. There is no specific emergency yet defined. 8/9

The state policy EO looks like it directs the AG to try to challenge state climate policies in court as unconstitutional. Of course, they are constitutional and consistent with our federalist system as courts have found for over four decades.7/9

Coal plants will likely be kept on line longer than believed a few years ago due to an uptick in power demand. But that is unrelated to these orders, and doesn’t mean the plants will operate outside of peak periods to maintain reliability.6/9

I don’t think these orders change the facts that coal-fired power plants are old, expensive to run, and unlikely to operate very often or for many more years. 5/9

We have seen no evidence that any company is considering building a new coal plant or that supply chains or manufacturing could support it.4/9

DOE has no authority to prevent coal plant retirements or force an owner to lose money by running the plant. 3/9

Nothing here seems to change the economics, and its the economics that have held coal-fired power production down. 2/9

Presidential Actions Archives

President’s Executive Orders fail to recognize that natural gas killed coal and if they aren’t banning fracking, none of this accomplishes much. 1/9
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I’m a buy, hold, and ignore guy but Friday I was on a flight and wifi didn’t work so all I could do was sit there and stare at the market drop and keep falling in real time. I do not recommend it. Back to ignoring as much as possible!

More Data Centers Spark Concerns for Virginia Residents - Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien More data centers are popping up across the country as the need for facilities to store digital data increases. Between 2023 and 2024, the number of megawatts of storage under construction in primary ...

On Matter of Fact, Soledad O’Brien’s tv show, about data centers and impacts. Some of the data center companies are showing great leadership in providing net benefits to other customer classes. But the issues are new to many states and there are risks to manage. www.matteroffact.tv/more-data-ce...

Records are meant to be broken. Congrats @booker.senate.gov for stepping up and standing up for the American people.

Blazing your own path for the W

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Economic Growth Now Depends on Electricity, Not Oil Surging demand for electricity presents huge new investment needs as well as regulatory challenges.

"In coming years, energy security will mean electricity," writes Capital Account columnist Greg Ip. Comments and data from us at Grid Strategies! www.wsj.com/business/ene... via @WSJ .

Town Hall on Maryland's Energy Crisis YouTube video by WBFF FOX45 Baltimore

On Baltimore and DC TV through the weekend on Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project and the controversies on transmission siting. At 1:15. There are great needs and legit complaints. Maryland and PJM should integrate grid planning with land use planning. www.youtube.com/live/GshAB9E...

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”

@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”

NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*

(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

Whenever you think about the remarkable progress of geothermal, remember that this has been the level of public funding supporting the sector. In coming years I expect support to catch up with technologies like hydrogen and CCS and it will be transformational. carnegieendowment.orgundefined?lang=en

US solar power boomed in 2024 despite Trump's threats - Marketplace Even as President Donald Trump threatens clean energy tax credits, solar power has become too cheap for consumers and utilities to ignore.

Did you know solar is unstoppable even facing federal headwinds? @marketplace.org on 2024's record solar year, featuring @robgramlichdc.bsky.social @solarindustry.bsky.social and yours truly. #energysky www.marketplace.org/2025/03/12/s...

Webinar: Electricity Market Visions to Support a Reliable and Affordable Electric Grid under Electricity Decarbonization - ESIG Featured Speakers: Rob Gramlich, President, Grid Strategies; Kelli Joseph, Senior Fellow, Electricity Market Design and Clean Energy Transition, World Resources Institute; Jacob Mays, Assistant Profes...

Join us in 15 minutes! 3-4:30pm ET. www.esig.energy/event/webina...
Webinar: Electricity Market Visions to Support a Reliable and Affordable Electric Grid under Electricity Decarbonization

US solar power boomed in 2024 despite Trump's threats - Marketplace Even as President Donald Trump threatens clean energy tax credits, solar power has become too cheap for consumers and utilities to ignore.

Renewables can’t be stopped! My comments on NPR this am. www.marketplace.org/2025/03/12/s...

Commentary: California's rooftop solar infighting is a colossal waste of time This would be a great time for Gov. Gavin Newsom to meet the moment.

@sammyroth.bsky.social says the fighting over rooftop solar is a colossal waste of time. I disagree. If we are going to decarbonize California, we want people to adopt heat pumps and EV's - and they won't do that if rates continue to skyrocket. A 🧵

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