Silvio Marcacci

Fossil Fuels Failed During Winter Storm Fern Power plant outages in America's largest grid show we can't depend upon fossil fuels

Just gonna leave this here substack.com/home/post/p-...

Obama could be on Lake Street or Central today or any day over the past two months, saying something and making a scene.

He could have done the same in Little Village or anywhere else in Chicago.

But he's not here, wasn't there, and isn't helping.

This is unquestionably the best response I've seen, thank you

Fossil Fuels Failed During Winter Storm Fern Power plant outages in America's largest grid show we can't depend upon fossil fuels

Fossil fuels are simply not reliable in winter weather.

Well gas plants burn methane so essentially ass power

Much love to @brendan.bsky.social + @michelle-solomon.bsky.social for helping me uncover what happened during the storm, since PJM refuses to publish plant outage details.

Fossil Fuels Failed During Winter Storm Fern Power plant outages in America's largest grid show we can't depend upon fossil fuels

Coal + gas fail once again during a winter storm.

20GW of generation went offline in America's largest grid during Winter Storm Fern.

DOE's policies to keep old coal plants running + expand gas dependency make our grid LESS RELIABLE + risk MORE BLACKOUTS
thepowerline.substack.com/p/fossil-fue...

The thing about America today is that if you just describe what is happening objectively and unemotionally you sound hysterical and partisan and what you have to remind people is that the reason for that is not you, it's the people doing the things you are describing

Yes, sadly

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account

Evergreen reminder the climate crisis is being done to us by fossil fuel corporations. They're literally burning our children's future to make billions. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump is lying to us, and his lies are being laundered by complicit media

people keep being like “hey sorry for the beef last week/year/decade” and I cannot even describe to you how little you care about or even remember any internet beef when you see 50 cars full of masked paramilitaries roll into your immediate neighborhood every day. all is forgiven, fight with us

The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of:
- Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute
- operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history
- Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used

"Done right, data centers can share in grid costs and actually help lower rates for everyone. Studies show that for every gigawatt of new large-load demand added to the grid, customer rates could fall by 1% to 2%"
www.newsweek.com/data-centers...

States consider suing fossil fuel industry over insurance hikes New York and Hawaii could expand the legal battlefield and seek to hold companies liable for disasters that cause premiums to rise.

Legislators in New York and Hawaiʻi are considering bills that allow their attorneys general to sue fossil fuel companies if climate-related disasters cause residents’ property insurance premiums to rise.

Aloha.

People will get sicker. More people will have heart attacks and lung disease and other health challenges because of pollution. People’s lives will get worse, and shorter. People you know. Maybe me. Maybe you.

“No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law"
Article I, Section 9.

Forcing this coal plant to stay open will cost local utility Tri-State $21 million in just 90 days - that gets passed directly to homeowners and businesses.

"Our membership will bear the costs of compliance with this order" - Tri State CEO

www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-col...

If Dems talked like this regularly, we wouldn't have to focus on "how to win close elections in difficult environments." We would have a lot fewer close elections, and a lot fewer difficult environments.

If this happened to a conservative organizer, Republicans would make her a hero, a household name and a congressional candidate.

Elected Democrats just pretend it isn't happening.

5) Cindy Taff of @sagegeosystems.bsky.social says next-generation geothermal will accelerate this year, moving from pilot project stage to mainstream deployment across the US

www.forbes.com/sites/energy...

4) Justine Johnson, Michigan's Chief Mobility Officer, predicts the state will pilot expanded Advanced Aerial Mobility (drones) deployment as policy discussions on the technology take off

www.forbes.com/sites/energy...

3) @shastingssimon.bsky.social of University of Calgary says strained US relations will push Canada to reorient electricity trade away from exports to interprovincial trade, kick starting domestic long-distance transmission expansion www.forbes.com/sites/energy...

2) Margaret Garascia of Climate Imperative predicts gas utility bills will skyrocket - they're already the fastest rising category in the consumer price index, but rising LNG exports + utility buildout will force consumers to pay even more www.forbes.com/sites/energy...

1) @spears.bsky.social of @climatecabinet.org predicts an energy affordability wave election driven by rising costs + election fundamentals: Pro-fossil fuel policies combine with midterm election trends to sweep in pro-climate, pro-affordability candidates www.forbes.com/sites/energy...

🔮⚡My annual energy policy predictions column is up!

Predictions from five female leaders in the energy and climate space outline what to expect in 2025.

The 2025 column was eerily prescient - how will this one look in a year?
www.forbes.com/sites/energy...

Would sadly be ratebased

(ps love the newsletter)

Still a few hours to go. 🤡

mashable.com/article/elon...

Comanche 2 would also have been forced to start open but Colorado delayed the closure because Comanche 3 has been broken down since this summer and no one knows when it’ll be back online. The irony.