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Tesla alum’s Heron Power closes $38M Series A to transform key grid technology | TechCrunch Heron Power is developing solid-state transformers, which promise to be more compact and responsive than the century-old analog models.

Heron Power ceo Drew Banglino transforming the western grid. techcrunch.com/2025/05/29/t...

03.06.2025 15:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

⚡ Former Tesla exec rethinks electrical transformers! Drew Baglino's new startup, Heron Power, is developing solid-state transformers to modernize the electric grid. Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/2chk69vw

09.04.2025 10:30 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

#GridBalancing starts at home

06.05.2025 13:07 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

#Wdyk about #BlueHydrogen? David Roberts knows enough to frame the issue well.

#IssueFraming

05.05.2025 19:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Put that in your grid and balance it. #GridBalancing is an art that Trump is smashing with a crude instrument. Canada’s #ElbowsUP

13.03.2025 01:00 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

You are too kind, Mountain. Took a moment to browse your feed. Very cool.

12.03.2025 18:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Western Interconnection - Wikipedia

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“The Western Interconnection is a wide area synchronous grid and one of the two major alternating current (AC) power grids in the North American power transmission grid. The other major wide area synchronous grid is the Eastern Interconnection.”

12.03.2025 13:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A map of electrical grid interconnections in the United States and Canada, including the Western, Eastern, Texas, Alaska, and Quebec Interconnections. Crucially, US and Canadian service grids are highly connected.

Get ready to see this map a lot in the coming weeks.

04.03.2025 05:40 — 👍 76    🔁 15    💬 4    📌 1

Energy demand from data centers growing faster than West can supply, experts say • Utah News Dispatch Data centers being rapidly built in the West are becoming an “emerging risk” to electrical grid reliability in the region, experts say.

New data centers, which can be built in as little as 18 months, are far outpacing the growth in new electrical energy supply and transmission, say members of the Salt Lake City-based Western Electricity Coordinating Council.

@ORCapChronicle has the story:

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27.08.2024 20:08 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Fuck Trump

11.03.2025 14:29 — 👍 107    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 2