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+1 need experts who understand what’s driving increased revenue requirements for their states’ utilities and ideas how to reverse trend. Could be senior staffers and maybe some consumer advocates who have concrete strategies

And everyone else on the mainland would be better off for it

Fascinating. I wonder if they’re “ok” with this as long as the city doesn’t try to buy out DTE’s current infrastructure?

PG&E scoffed at SFPUC (an existing muni!) trying to buy out the remaining PG&E wires still remaining in the city.

POLITICO Pro: Newsom commits to reaching grid regionalization deal this session California’s governor called the development of a West-wide market the state's best shot at lowering energy costs.

“California must further enable continued cooperation with Western partners to secure our clean, reliable and affordable energy future. This is our best shot at lowering energy costs. Now the legislature must take action this year.” – Governor Gavin Newsom

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A group of nonprofit organizations sued the Bonneville Power Administration on July 10 in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals over the agency’s decision to join SPP’s Markets+ instead of CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market.
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California state senate votes on SB 540

Congrats to California state senator and climate hawk Josh Becker -- SB 540, Western grid regionalization, cleared the state senate on a 33-1 vote.

If I didn’t know any better I’d think it was SNL. The caricatures are no longer caricatures - it’s just who they are.

This is exactly how I want to slide into the weekend.

Lots of great work happening to unlock interconnection queues for new generators and get loads online faster - but I wish we’d coalesce a bit more on differentiating interconnecting generating from energizing loads. Different problems with some similarities but will req dif processes to solve

That’s true of many compliance frameworks. Turns out having money usually means the rules are optional. Doesn’t seem like a good argument for not having any framework.

Next up: abolish the IRS because the wealthy just cheat the system and they treat tax law as entirely optional.

I think the status quo is that traffic law is already optional for wealthy people.

Whether you automatically get a ticket for running a red/speeding or run the risk of getting pulled over doesn’t matter. I don’t see how a camera changes a wealthy person’s underlying decision making here

where they are (WEIM), tack on a day ahead market to their WEIM participation (WEIM+EDAM), or move to SPP’s markets+ & WEIS offering.

Seems hard if the status quo for many is that they’re already embedded in a market to begin with.

The next several months will be interesting to say the least .

This is helpful thanks. I read that Borenstein paper years ago but prob worth a re-read.

One of the challenging things I’ve been seeing from my vantage point is that many of the PNW pous already participate in the larger WEIM, so they’re already in a market. The question then becomes, do they stay

the different public power agencies in the PNW regarding which market to join, if any at all?

I don’t disagree with the premise of this thread, but good to also note that BPA is planning to join 1 of 2 regional power markets in the WECC, but that its choice of which market to join has been criticized for its cost implications and concerns around climate/emissions. How would you advise 1/2

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I like to imagine the cardinals around a table with a conversation going like this:

“Yeah yeah, but like, do they shit in the woods?”

My sense is that so much of that righteousness is born from this very self centered view that they know Everything and if you disagree you must know Nothing - hard to have thoughtful conversations when the underlying view is so dogmatically held

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Interesting, I was under the impression grid forming wasn’t much more $ relative to non grid forming. Any idea on how to think of the cost premium or what the scale of cost differential is?

👀Okay, I'm going to shout into the void here, but this is remarkable. Data centers are driving up energy costs in VA in a spectacular way.
Since the start of 2025, nearly 12% of *ALL* wholesale power costs in VA are attributable to congestion charges from data center demand in Northern VA.

Tash sultana, used to watch her busk in Melbourne and saw her first US show at red room cafe 939 in Boston

Wisconsin Judge Monica Isham Threatens Not To Hold Court Over Hannah Dugan Arrest Wisconsin Circuit Judge Monica Isham is threatening to refuse to hold court and even raise bail on defendants because of the arrest of Milwaukee Judge Hannah

Monica Isham is the 1st woman & 1st minority to serve as a circuit court judge in Sawyer County.

In an email to all Wisconsin state judges she said: “If there is no support for us, l will refuse to hold court. If this costs me my job or gets me arrested, then at least I know I did the right thing.”

Everyone’s talking about balcony solar but we’re all sleeping on yard solar

Keeping California's lights on will require a major electricity market, partnerships across the West | Opinion For California to reach its challenging clean, reliable and affordable electricity goals, the state needs an energy market across the West.

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SB 540 is also critical to enabling California’s participation in that market, and ensures our state has a leadership role since other competing market concepts are less likely to share the commitment to our clean energy goals. buff.ly/uHXB7iy

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It’s surprisingly difficult! I did a hike with a colleague and my partner recently and used the word without thinking - no surprise it led to more confusion lol

Talking about tariffs* was always complicated with non-energy folks, but these tariffs make using the word tariffs** even more difficult.

*utility rate schedules
**also, utility rate schedules

You can look even more recent than 2014!

We had seen counterintuitive emissions outcomes from some BTM systems in SGIP. Thankfully the grid scale stuff is operating more for arbitrage rn, but when those early systems operated primarily for AS revenues we were concerned abt the GHGs too (~2021)

Have yall watched the ultimatum? The straights were really not ok in that one. The queer ultimatum season is much better.