Sam Evans-Brown

Gas infrastructure failed in the big Texas blackout of 2021, while wind, solar and batteries have proved reliable. But the state's political leadership immediately blamed wind for the blackout. We discussed what happened in
@transitionshow.bsky.social
Ep. 145: xenetwork.org/ets/episodes...

Trump Promised to Halve Energy Costs in 18 Months. Experts Have Doubts. (Published 2024)

I was recently reminded of this absurd Trump campaign claim. Mark your calendars, 18 months of the regime will be July 20, 2026. Doesn't look like we're headed towards halving energy costs!

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/c...

CC Katie Miller. She's apparently not on Blue Sky...

ok back to energy stuff sorry bluesky

"sure sure sure, the bulk of it is a Mambo #5 style riff on how many girlfriends I have... like, we've got to sell records here... but the song is really about how the most important person in my life is my auntie."

"you know what would be a bop? a song about bringing girl friends to meet my aunt."

obviously very late to this fact, but Bad Bunny having opened the superb owl halftime show with "tita me pregunto" has led me to realize that they lyrics to that song are friggin hilarious.

My Maine worry (yuck yuck yuck) is will we be able to get these projects built in a timely fashion.

Especially given the history here... law.justia.com/cases/federa...

Fortunately @isonewengland is on it, and their first move to solve this problem is a competitive solicitation for transmission out of Maine under FERC 1920.
www.iso-ne.com/static-asset...

What's happening? It's a cold, sunny day, which means the 1600ish MW of solar that Maine has installed is cranking.

And now, as contractually required, the new NECEC line is cranking power into Maine.

This is bad and we should fix it

Worth remembering: The world has been spending more on solar than oil for the last two years.

Cheap and Abundant Electricity Is Good - The States Forum Download the full paper The idea Energy is the lifeblood of the modern economy. Electricity powers homes, factories, and our digital world, allowing us to enjoy comfortable lives in a competitive coun...

It’s simple: cheap and abundant electricity is good! 

In our January Book, @janeaflegal.bsky.social discusses the growing need for energy, the policy challenges thwarting new supply, and how we move towards more cheap AND clean energy. 

www.statesforum.org/january-book...

Effect of crude oil carbon accounting decisions on meeting global climate budgets - Environment Systems and Decisions The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change quantified a cumulative remaining carbon budget beyond which there is a high likelihood global average temperatures will increase more than 2 °C above pre...

we assessed that using climate policy to align the global oil trade toward lower carbon oils would cut GHGs link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Beyond Global Warming Potential: A Comparative Application of Climate Impact Metrics for the Life Cycle Assessment of Coal and Natural Gas Based Electricity In the ongoing debate about the climate benefits of fuel switching from coal to natural gas for power generation, the metrics used to model climate impacts may be important. In this article, we evalu...

We should aim higher than “better than coal”, but we and a bunch of others have done lots of work on the life cycle impacts of methane, and LNG is likely lower than coal overseas pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... it’s very unlikely gas is worse than coal here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Ha! Definitely not true! (But am trying to do good things!)

[sits up in bed] The Sun is sincerely non-rival and non-excludable. The Sun is a public good.

Oh New England. So embarrassing. We can't take you anywhere

Loser stuff

On it

YouTube video by Amos Fortune Forum Sam Evans Brown - The Energy Transition And Why It’s Inevitable

Great lecture by @samebenergy.bsky.social on why the doubters are wrong and there will be an #energytransition. The question is just whether the doubters will slow it down as they are intending @myzerocarbon.org
youtu.be/N_i9LAjLSic?...

Support Clean Energy NH | NH Gives 2025 I’m ready to support Clean Energy NH on June 10, 2025 during NH Gives 2025. Learn more about Clean Energy NH and all the other organizations participating in NH Gives 2025.

I can talk about how rad Clean Energy NH is until I'm blue in the face, and I truly believe we have a replicable model that should be rolled out in Red States across the country. Help us pay our staff?
www.nhgives.org/organization...

Hey Bluesky!
If anybody here gives a hoot about NH continuing to make progress on decarbonization, consider supporting CENH today!

We're the only outfit that is doing real things, in my humble opinion.

How many of these developers/manufacturers in red districts are donating to GOP campaigns? How do these donations compare to other GOP donors who are anti-clean energy?

Cover of new REPEAT Project report, "A Fork In The Road: Impacts of Federal Policy Repeal On The U.S. Energy Transition."

Summary Full repeal of current federal energy and climate policies would: • Increase U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by roughly 0.5 billion metric tons per year in 2030 and more than 1 billion metric tons per year in 2035. • Raise U.S. household and business energy expenditures by $25 billion annually in 2030 and over $50 billion in 2035. • Increase average U.S. household energy costs by roughly $100 to $160 per household per year in 2030 and roughly $270 to $415 per household per year in 2035. • Reduces cumulative capital investment in U.S. electricity and clean fuels production by $1 trillion from 2025-2035. • Imperil a total of $522 billion in announced but pending investments in U.S. clean energy supply and manufacturing. • Reduce annual sales of electric vehicles by roughly 40% in 2030 and end America’s battery manufacturing boom. • Substantially slow electricity capacity additions, raising national average retail electricity rates and monthly household electricity bills by about 9% in 2030 — and as much as 17% in some states (including TX, OK and PA). • Kill off the nascent clean hydrogen, CO2 management, and nuclear power sectors.

Graphic showing historical and modeled US greenhouse gas emissions, with substantial increase if current federal policies are repealed.

Graphic showing modeled average household US energy costs, with substantial increase if current federal policies are repealed.

What does the GOP Megabill passed by the House this morning mean for the US energy transition, energy prices, emissions and the economy? REPEAT Project's new analysis has you covered. Read the new report or listen to our recent SHIFT KEY episode diving into the details. 🔗 ⤵️
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Mais bien sur!

I just have always found it baffling that HQ wouldn't invest aggressively in EE.

We do need to think seriously about what new "clean firm" resources we can build, but the truth is that any new generation is likely to increase our bills. At every juncture, doing more with what we have now is the economically optimal move. www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...

And in 2025, building ANYTHING new is expensive, where as there remains an enormous amount of low-hanging efficiency measures that haven't been pursued in Quebec, because their rates are so low as to make the payback for the consumer difficult to justify. www.theenergymix.com/hydro%E2%80%...

The situation for HQ is fairly unique: where else do you have a legacy fleet of fully-amortized, low-cost hydro facilities sitting next door to one of the highest cost electricity markets in the country?

Every kWh they don't consume locally is worth 2x more sold to us.

Bravo, @hydroquebec.com! I've been observing this company's moves for over a decade now and I've been waiting for this particular move for that entire time.