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New Study Presents Novel Insights on Large Load Integration in PJM First public study to model flexibility using real utility network data to resolve generation and transmission constraints simultaneously

If you're not a subscriber, you're missing out on this goldmine - www.powerpolicy.net/p/new-study-...

A good topic for anyone at the intersection of #CloudNative DataCenters, #EnergySky and Telco

@tnorris.bsky.social

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Speaking of sensible things, @volts.wtf new solo pod episode is must-listen! 🔌💡 www.volts.wtf/p/whats-goin...

Opinion | A Simple Fix to America’s Soaring Electricity Prices

This piece from @tnorris.bsky.social is about the only sensible thing NYT has published on the subject of electricity prices.

This is the 2nd near-catastrophic event caused by gas in a major downtown area where I’ve lived in recent yrs (other was gas explosion in dtown Durham, killing 2 and injuring 25, including 9 firefighters). www.wral.com/news/local/f...

Excited to share this professional update! 🔌💡

#cop30 #belem | Truman Semans TO MY NETWORK, PLEASE READ THIS if you are active in US energy transition and climate matters. This is the first time I've ever used all caps in any LinkedIn post. It's that important. I also encour...

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This recommendation of my @nytimes.com op-ed means a lot coming from Truman Semans, a respected leader in global climate finance & corporate sustainability on @dukeenvironment.bsky.social's board:

#narucannual25 | Pier LaFarge Heading into the NARUC annual meeting in Seattle, the topic I’m most focused on is grid utilization. What do I mean by grid utilization? It’s all about selling more electrons over the grid we have, s...

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Grid utilization appears increasingly likely to emerge as a defining theme in US electricity regulation & policy going forward 🔌💡

Making flexibility work: A concrete framework for the DOE large load proposal The proposal for interconnecting data centers to the grid calls for load flexibility but gives few details. Former FERC Commissioner Allison Clements and Miles Farmer and Sam Walsh of Roselle LLP fill...

Notable op-ed today by @allisonclements.bsky.social @mfarmer.bsky.social & Sam Walsh: "bottom line is that enabling load flexibility is critical to achieving speed-to-power for large customers while keeping the grid reliable and affordable for the rest of us." 🔌💡 www.utilitydive.com/news/data-ce...

Thank you Quentin!

Opinion | A Simple Fix to America’s Soaring Electricity Prices

Great piece from @tnorris.bsky.social Tyler Norris in the NYT earlier this week, ICYMI. Gift link below. "A Simple Fix to America’s Soaring Electricity Prices" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

How DOE’s Proposed Large Load Interconnection Process Could Unlock the Benefits of Load Flexibility In the United States, the current system for interconnecting large electric loads, like data centers, to the grid has left all sides frustrated. Data center developers are mired in slow interconnectio...

DOE's ANOPR could change the way large energy users connect to the grid. This Policy Brief, by Roselle, @allisonclements.bsky.social and Nicholas Institute, unpacks a promising principle in the ANOPR: interconnection for flexible loads should be expedited. nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/publications...

How DOE’s Proposed Large Load Interconnection Process Could Unlock the Benefits of Load Flexibility In the United States, the current system for interconnecting large electric loads, like data centers, to the grid has left all sides frustrated. Data center developers are mired in slow interconnectio...

nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/publications...

🚨 NEW REPORT:
A major FERC rulemaking on large load interconnection is likely imminent, and anyone who wants to understand its potential should read @nichinstitute.bsky.social new brief by @mfarmer.bsky.social @allisonclements.bsky.social @azevin.bsky.social @smaczni.bsky.social et al. 🔌💡

Interesting about the 22 hours/year.

This aligns with the energy storage VPP programs around the nation. The batteries are expected to be used a handful of times for a few hours each time during complex grid moments.

Our power grids are build to sustain these peaks, but now we have tools.

We've been doing power generation and distribution using combustion and a brute force approach which is incredibly wasteful in many ways.

The good news is we have a lot of ways to move beyond this approach now, that benefits us all in many ways.

Progress.

#2 piece @nytopinion.nytimes.com right now! 🔌💡

Thank you Luke!

Opinion | A Simple Fix to America’s Soaring Electricity Prices

Check out this excellent article by @tnorris.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

#energysky 🔌💡

I love that demand flexibility has gotten to the mainstream point of being featured in the NY Times.

Kudos to Tyler for his persistent and very clear push for this smart solution to manage demand growth. 🔌 💡

Well said, Tyler.

Opinion | A Simple Fix to America’s Soaring Electricity Prices

🎁 Gift link: Insightful op-ed on electricity prices by @tnorris.bsky.social
Why the rise?
⬆️ natural gas prices
⬆️ costs to modernize the grid and rebuild after hurricanes, wildfires
"Ask the largest power users to draw a little less from the grid during the limited hours when it’s most strained."

Opinion | A Simple Fix to America’s Soaring Electricity Prices

"if big new power users [data centers] curbed demand just 0.25 percent of the time — about 22 hours a year — the United States could accommodate more data centers without burdening household electricity users." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o... @tnorris.bsky.social

Little in the power sector is ever truly simple, but I'm hopeful the piece makes these ideas accessible to a broader audience. Very much welcome your thoughts - and if nothing else, at least we have a new artistic depiction of 'flexible' power infrastructure that ran with the piece!

I have a @nytimes.com op-ed today on managing power demand growth. Central point: load growth is an opportunity to *offset* upward rate pressure (and avoid gas overbuild), if we plan the system to make fuller use of infrastructure we’ve already paid for. 🔌💡 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

Tyler Norris: The 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders of 2025 Find out why Tyler Norris is on TIME's 2025 list of the 100 most influential leaders driving business climate action.

Congrats to Ph.D. student Tyler Norris, @tnorris.bsky.social, who was named to the 2025 TIME100 Climate list. His research on electric power systems is helping the tech and energy industries find ways to meet rising electricity demand using the existing grid.

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