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US solar tops 11.7 GW in a huge Q3 despite political roadblocks The US added 11.7 GW of solar in Q3 2025, pushing yearly totals past 30 GW, with most new installations happening in red states.

Congrats CAISO, ERCOT, MISO, PJM states, plus AZ, FL, & UT! Ratepayers in @iso-ne.com states applaud your leadership
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Judge orders regime to restore Tufts grad student Rümeysa Öztürk's entry in a federal student database
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#ICE #SomervilleMA

Screenshot of ISO-NE "external interfaces" graph, showing where electricity flows from/to ISO-NE to neighboring grids like NYISO. The connection to NYISO shows a huge dip and rebound swinging 913 MW within 15 minutes, from the time intervals ending 17:40-17:55. The grid alert was issued at 5:38 pm.

Here's a ~900 MW surge between NYISO and ISO-NE, occuring from 17:40-17:55. ISO-NE cites an ~900MW loss of generation around this time, in one large thermal plant and two smaller plants. Were these plant outages in/around Braintree, where 100s of res/biz outages occurred? The 3 plants total >900MW.

Not interested in debating semantics, but inter-agency inconsistency in using the word "emergency" is confusing/ concerning - and blackouts in Braintree were attributed to a transmission surge from outside the distribution system - by Braintree officials - making it substantive.

FB post: < BELD Braintree Electric Light Department ... Nov 24. Thank you for your patience during yesterday's outage. There was an overcurrent surge on the transmission line, which caused transmission breakers to open at 6:28 PM, leading to the systemwide outage. All power was restored by 8:15 PM. 187 43 10 00

Braintree Electric Light Dept attributes the outage to the regional transmission grid, i.e., @iso-ne.com

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"At 17:38, just prior to the peak load of the day, the system experienced the loss of a large thermal resource, followed by the loss of two additional smaller resources at 17:42. The total generation lost during this event was approximately 900 MW."
- @iso-ne.com memo to industry group NEPOOL.

@bostonu.bsky.social asked faculty for anticipatory obedience/ appeasement yet again, to remove pride flags, and these amazing community members responded to say a resounding NO.

Government has denied Tufts PhD Rümeysa Öztürk crucial academic opportunities, lawyers say in court - The Boston Globe The attorneys asked a federal judge to restore Öztürk‘s student record in an ICE database so that she could return to teaching and research opportunities.

“It is truly sad how much valuable knowledge is currently being lost here in the US due to fear within the academic community that they could be punished for their speech and beliefs like I was.”
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@iso-ne.com doubled-down yesterday in a meeting of the Consumer Liaison Group, claiming the Energy Emergency Level 1 alert ISO-NE declared 11/23 was a "not emergency". Hundreds of residential & business outages occured in Braintree, Milton and Mattapan during this emergency "not emergency".

I would’ve missed that - thank you.

Photo of permanent sign which says: PRIVATE PROPERTY THIS LOT IS RESERVED FOR DISTRICT TENANTS AND THEIR GUESTS/PATRONS ONLY. VIOLATORS WILL BE TOWED AT THE VEHICLE OWNERS EXPENSE MURRAY'S TOWING-(781) 935-1439 Underneath which is a handmade sign saying “FREE PARKING 4 ICE KIDNAPPERS Courtesy of National Development” In the background are two Homeland Security ICE SUV’s parked illegally.

Another view of the previous

White Homeland Security SUV’s parked in violation of National Development parking lot restrictions, near the Burlington MA ICE facility. So far NatDev has shown no shame in aiding & abetting ICE.

Photo of Sen. Ed Markey speaking at today’s Bearing Witness standout at the Burlington MA ICE facility.

@markey.senate.gov at #BearingWitness #BurlingtonMA @universalhub.com

Interested (as always with energy/grid) in @jglarusso.bsky.social’s take?
H/t @grumpygrumpyowl.bsky.social

ISO New England has lifted the abnormal conditions alert. System conditions have returned to normal.

Time series chart of real-time 5 min ISO-NE wholesale electricity prices, showing the huge evening spike due to the as-yet unexplained grid emergency.

The integral under this spike is how much disaster capitalism profited off this f*uck up. Let’s call it an hour at $2500/MWh. Peak demand was about 15,500MW during that hour. So this was on the order of $40M in profit - ultimately paid by ratepayers.

A screenshot of a real time map of an emergency power situation in New England

Hey #energysky #energyhub what’s happening to power and the grid in #NewEngland?? 📢

#power #blackout #BELD #Braintree #MApoli #ISONewEngland

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Looks like the imports were volatile, Brunswick & NYISO. Also demand weirdly ramped up a few hundred MW above forecast starting around 4:30-5:00.

The grid abruptly went on “red alert” for about an hour, starting around 5:40pm.

Actually it was an emergency:

Sign projected onto Cafe Escadrille in Burlington MA says “Robert Murray End the ICE Lease $142k/month from Human Trafficking” & depicts an icon of an imprisoned person

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BU students protest Zac Segal, ICE raids in front of President Gilliam’s house - The Boston Globe Approximately 150 marched Friday night demanding BU President Melissa Gilliam make commitments to protecting students amid ICE raids in Boston.

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More power to @bostonu.bsky.social students, for the courage to assert “Sanctuary” while their so-called leaders self-censor and comply with desecration.

OP-ED: An open letter to the Boston University community from the captains of the BU Cross Country team Op-Eds do not reflect the editorial opinion of The Daily Free Press. They are solely the opinion of the author. Tucker Bowerfind (CAS ‘26), Adrienne Buettner-Cable (CAS ‘27), Caroline Collins (COM ‘28...

Proud of @bostonu.bsky.social cross-country team leaders:
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Congressman Moulton Announces Oversight Visit to Burlington ICE Facility; Invites Senators Warren & Markey to Join Him in Holding ICE Accountable WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Seth Moulton (MA-06) tonight announced that he will be conducting an official oversight visit to the Burlington ICE facility on December 1, citing ongoing concerns about...

@repauchincloss.bsky.social why aren’t you invited/going? Will you be going on another date soon to follow up on this humanitarian disaster?
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This story fails to note Post owner Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon, one of the leading builders of AI data centers. And this is part of a trend, as I wrote for FAIR fair.org/home/wapo-de...

It was purely preemptive of the inevitable, annoying & yes overwrought objection.

FB post: Somerville, MA Community. Join ... Morgen Camp. 1d. The traffic is getting out of hand. It should NEVER take 45+ minutes to go from twin city plaza to foss park! That's ridiculous 148 336 4

For the many who can (not everyone can) it’s a reliable 15 min by bike & 35 min by foot; you’ll pollute less, save money, increase your health, reduce congestion for those who actually must use a car, and reduce your utter dependency on the car-fossil-fuel-industrial complex.

Riley wrote that many of the demands of the YDSA's petition - including the protection of student privacy and training surrounding warrants - are "already in place." "In light of recent federal immigration actions, the University has increased its outreach, published additional guidance, and expanded the resources available to international students," Riley wrote. “International students now have access to up to three-hours of free legal consultation with outside immigration attorneys." He added that while the University has not reported any instances of federal immigration agents entering campus, BU is "closely monitoring the situation." https://dailyfreepress.com/11/17/22/216396/advocates-demand-increased-road-safety-honor-traffic-crash-victims-on-statehouse-steps/

In essence, BU says “We’re already effectively a sanctuary campus, we just can’t use that term.”

“Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism” - Robin Morgan.