Colin Meehan

SPP (the Southwest Power Pool, serving the central Great Plains states) approved a new regional transmission plan with $8.6 billion in projects, including ~950 miles of ultra-high voltage 765 kV lines, and with estimated benefits 18X the costs www.spp.org/documents/75... More of this please! 🔌💡

This is too good #EnergySky

Gov. JB Pritzker set to approve energy bill boosting battery storage for renewables despite debate over costs Democrats said moves would eventually lower electric bills in Illinois, while Republicans noted a surcharge on consumer bills would partly back battery installations.

Sweeping energy-related legislation that backs the use of big batteries to help make wind and solar power more effective cleared the Senate Thursday night and is headed to Gov. JB Pritzker, who signaled he would sign the measure into law.

How a Tiny Community Blocked Battery Storage in Over Half of Los Angeles County Much of California’s biggest county is now off limits to energy storage.

Scoop: A court ruling last week quietly derailed battery storage development in more than half of L.A. County after activists successfully sued to kill a 400 megawatt battery in a wildfire risk area

@heatmap.news #greensky #energysky

There are nearly 23 gigawatts of thermal plants offline for maintenance as Texas continues to have way above average heat.

To pick up the slack, batteries are deploying for longer periods; they discharged over 3,000 megawatts for 2+ hours Tuesday evening. 1/2

This is our work! Nice to see it getting picked up

60. There is enough land for lots of solar (most studies suggest 1-2% of land would be required to generate all the solar most countries can use). There’s also loads and loads of roofs, so let’s see those who oppose ground-mounted solar support higher-cost roof-mounted solar.

14. Low power prices may be great for consumers but they are very bad if you're trying to build more clean power plants. Without demand-side flexibility measures, the energy transition will fail before fully pushing fossil fuel out of the mix. Which is what we must do.

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

It’s been almost six years for me, and much of this resonates if a little more blurred, especially as we prepare to leave for Austin where she is buried. I’m lucky my son and I have a close relationship to my wife’s family but the grief, the rhythms, the blurring are very much a part of my life.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

YouTube video by CinderellaVEVO Cinderella - Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)

This has to be in the mix:

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

After Spain's blackout, critics blamed renewable energy. It's part of a bigger attack When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.

When the power went out in Spain this spring, many people immediately pointed the finger at the country's solar and wind power as the cause.

That wasn't the trigger, but a new survey finds that all that misinformation?

It had an impact.

Read more here, only on @npr.org 🎧⬇️

Lots of people think Dems are forcing these dirty coal plants to “retire” with policies and regs.

It’s simply not true!

Coal plants are incredibly inefficient to run compared to gas and renewables. This New England plant didn’t “retire” — the company closed it because it was too expensive!

China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.

China and the US going in opposite directions now when it comes to energy.

And it looks like China is poised to win…

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

American Energy Impotence

Autism, MAHA, and the Face of God One part junk science, two parts incompetent government, and with a dash of blasphemy, for seasoning.

Via @jvl.bsky.social "the answer isn’t to stamp out neurodivergence or “cure” people of being who they are.4 It’s to widen our arms and be more inclusive so that they can find their place in the world a little more easily.
www.thebulwark.com/p/autism-mah...

I try (/fail) to limit my regular work when I’m traveling for work but have to say it’s lovely day to start my NY Climate Week and I certainly don’t mind MCing a work call on state level renewable energy permitting policy from a beautiful patio.

Trump and his Republican co-conspirators fear ridicule more than anything else.

They are OK with being called cruel, because they associate cruelty with power, but they know that their power stems from people taking them seriously.

Ridicule is powerful.

www.newspapers.com/search/resul...

“I’m tired of being pitted against my neighbor. I’m tired of being told to hate my neighbor.”

@jamestalarico.bsky.social’s #CupOfJoe is dialed-in. Our future depends on rejecting the politics of hate and choosing a path that heals, unites, & rebuilds. 🔗 tinyurl.com/2kb9wzax

Thanks David - 3 6yo kids and I am stopping often to reflect on how full of joy and wonder this life with them is. That’s in no small part thanks to your “medium chill” column which I still return to when I worry about the rat race too much.

Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police.

Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack

Had noticed the same but hadn't put it into words yet - it is a very interesting shift, thanks for sharing
!

Following the Hyundai raid, LG Energy Solution suspended most business trips to the US and directed employees to return home immediately. It comes less than two months since South Korea committed $350B in US investments, including a $26B Hyundai steel mill in Louisiana.

U.S. policy decisions made by the Administration are degrading our economy and our national security.

Survey stakes are in the ground at the San Rafael Valley, where DHS is preparing to wall off the last best corridor in Arizona for jaguars, ocelots & other species. Not a soul in sight.

First whales, now cables: Anti-wind activists push more false claims New Jersey’s plan to install offshore wind transmission faces opposition from some of the same groups that spread misinformation about whale deaths.

Here’s the link to my story about how anti-cable conspiracies ran rampant the two Jersey Shore towns, where my family all lives, after postcards riddled with cables-cause-cancer misinformation showed up in people’s mailbox. A political org was behind it.

www.eenews.net/articles/fir...

C’mon people!!! Are we going to have to institute mandatory screenings of Old Yeller?!?