Tyler Norris

NextEra SVP Petter Skantze says battery storage is now “the cheapest form of new capacity” in the US w/ “order of magnitude” faster deployment than gas w/ more modularity & flexible siting to enable higher system utilization & large load integration — #GridFWD in Monterey, CA 🔌💡

Looking forward to delivering this talk to my provincial utility commission this week on flexible electricity demand!

Lots of @tnorris.bsky.social @severinborenstein.bsky.social @jigarshahdc.bsky.social inspiration and references throughout!

What Will Data Centers Do To Your Electric Bill? The threat of increased rates is real, but good policy can bring lower prices as demand grows. Electricity has recently replaced eggs, beef, and gasoline as the inflation concern du jour. Reporters…

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New from @severinborenstein.bsky.social: "The key to making new data center demand a benefit to other customers is to create incentives for these new loads to restrain their peak demand and to avoid discount pricing so the new loads significantly contribute to covering system fixed costs." 🔌💡

Sad news for a lot of families in the Carolinas www.wral.com/story/regula...

Really excellent piece on data center load growth, the obligation to serve, and ideas about where we go from here.

Electricity Markets Aren’t Working Anymore Why regional transmission organizations as we know them might not survive the data center boom.

Only in @heatmap.news can you get @zeitlin.bsky.social explaining why electricity markets as they exist may no longer be fit for purpose, and how we can look to industries that regulate scarce resources, like water, for reforms. heatmap.news/energy/elect...

Electricity Markets Aren’t Working Anymore Why regional transmission organizations as we know them might not survive the data center boom.

Why the data center boom might call into questions over 100 years of electricity market regulations heatmap.news/energy/elect...

“I think no matter what, we’re going to see some non-firm options” - @robgramlichdc.bsky.social in @zeitlin.bsky.social latest @heatmap.news 🔌💡 heatmap.news/energy/elect...

The money -- and the potential bill savings!-- is in the wires! Just like @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social and I discussed on Shift Key here heatmap.news/podcast/shif...

Interesting exchange between @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and @stephenlacey.bsky.social on latest Open Circuit episode w/ @charlesxhua.bsky.social 🔌💡 www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...

Today our transmission grid capacity is only used about 55% of the time. Our distribution grid, less than 30% of the time. But for 50-100 hours a year everything could be used close to 100% of their capacity — so we overinvest in those hours.
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Happy to be speaking on the main stage at Climate Week NYC at the Javits Center next week - join us! We’d, Sept. 24, 5:15 PM. 🔌💡 www.thenestclimatecampus.com/register?utm...

New @apnews.com: "US grids under pressure from data centers are changing strategy" 🔌💡 apnews.com/article/big-...

Must-listen new @catalyst-pod.bsky.social interview w/ @brianjanous.bsky.social. "I don't think there's a credible argument for behind the meter nuclear at data centers in the near future, and by near future, I mean the next couple of decades." 🔌💡 www.latitudemedia.com/news/catalys...

MLK Jr. on violence:

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.

Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.

Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.

It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

Pretty excited to do this live podcast with Verrus CEO Nelson Abramson at RE+ tomorrow - join us! 🔌💡

Governors of PA, NJ, MD, and IL call on PJM to streamline energy resource interconnection service (ERIS) and connect-and-manage options to accelerate generator interconnection (source: comments on PJM CFIP large loads proposal, pg 37 www.pjm.com/-/media/DotC... )

More info here: www.pjm.com/committees-a...

Coverage of PJM’s non-firm service proposal for large loads has missed the mark, casting stakeholder pushback as “opposition” to demand response, when the primary objections are to PJM’s mandatory approach. I count at least 17 stakeholders expressing interest in modernized demand response.

Congrats to @aoc.bsky.social's team on getting this passed! #energysky #greensky 🔌💡 ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/press-...

The race to build flexible data centers A live conversation on the future of grid-responsive data center design and deployment

It's been 7 months since @tnorris.bsky.social's report on flexible data centers dropped, making a major splash in the energy and AI worlds. But how far have we really come on flexibility? On Friday I'm sitting down for a live interview with Tyler to take stock: www.latitudemedia.com/events/the-r...

Hosted by @latitudemedia.bsky.social this Friday 1pm ET: #energysky #greensky 🔌💡 www.latitudemedia.com/events/the-r...

The Puzzle of Low Data Center Utilization Rates Contrary to popular belief, data centers aren't maxed out around the clock - and this has real consequences for power system planning

@tnorris.bsky.social on why narratives about data center power demand are making it appear more constant & closer to full capacity than it actually is. Getting this right is key to heading off overbuild of generation and grid infrastructure. Big implications for climate, electricity rates and more.

In a new interview, Iron Mountain Data Centers says it’s deploying battery storage at 100% nameplate capacity of its New Jersey data center “so we can totally shed the load of the data center.” “We’re going to see a lot more of this.” #greensky #energysky 🔌💡 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

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To Handle Data Centers, the Electricity System May Need New Rules. Here Is a Proposal - Inside Climate News Legal scholars suggest revisiting a core tenet of electricity regulations and taking cues from how officials manage scarce resources such as water in the West.

Three new pieces on data center flex:

1️⃣ @jeffstjohn.bsky.social on Google’s deals www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti...

2️⃣ Shayle Kann w/ Varun Sivaram on mechanics of DC flex www.latitudemedia.com/news/catalys...

3️⃣ Reg dimensions in George Wash. Law Review insideclimatenews.org/news/2808202...

This is why this statement today from a state commissioner in the NYT should be taken seriously — yes, the admin’s efforts to stop or materially delay these projects increases reliability risk. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/c...

Offshore wind has higher capacity value than gas CTs, according to PJM. So when the Trump admin claims offshore wind makes no contribution to resource adequacy/reliability, it's lying. #energysky #greensky www.pjm.com/-/media/DotC...