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"Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair PJM?" If they are willing, who are we to say no? www.pjm.com/-/media/DotC...

Whoa -- just noticed NERC acknowledging a data error in its MISO numbers leading to a lot less reliability problems. Bad data leading to a wrong (and highly impactful) conclusion is my nightmare! Good on NERC for acknowledging and correcting the record! #EnergySky

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Definitely interest in coordinating with our Northern neighbors as well, as evidenced by the recent Premiers/Governors meeting.

...that reduce costs & improve reliability across the northeast region. Candidate projects can be at any level of maturity, so long as they contribute to interregional transmission. Responses due Oct. 23, 2025.

Full RFI available here: energyinstitute.jhu.edu/wp-content/u...

Delighted to share the Request for Information issued today by the Northeast States Collaborative on Interregional Transmission! The RFI delivers on a recommendation made in the NE Collab's April Strategic Action Plan.

The RFI focuses on identifying interregional "Candidate Projects"....

🚨New paper alert🚨 “A State Playbook for Managing Data Center-Driven Load Growth.”

We try to answer questions we've heard from State policymakers across the country and explain how States can best deal with data center load growth uncertainty!

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ROSEI Hiring: Post Doc in Public Policy Research; Inter-Regional Power Transmission - Johns Hopkins - Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute The Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI) is looking to hire a Fellow to support its public policy research into interregional...

Also - here's a link to the Fellow/Post-Doc posting that doesn't require a log in: energyinstitute.jhu.edu/rosei-hiring... #energysky

The selected fellow will work with me (Abe Silverman) in supporting multi-state convenings including the Northeast States Collaborative on Interregional Transmission & more! We’ll work on lots of cool stuff – including: #energysky

🚨Job Alert🚨Johns Hopkins' Sustainable Energy Institute is hiring a fellow/post-doc (PhD, JD or equivalent experience) to support our work on interregional transmission, state engagement, and offshore wind planning! #energysky

Details & application available: apply.interfolio.com/168478

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Discussion of the Strategic Action Plan from the Northeast States Collaborative on Interregional Transmission. After registering, you will receive a confirm... Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Discussion of the Strategic Action Plan from the Northeast States Collaborative on Interregional Transmission. After registering, you will receive a confirm...

Please join us on Tuesday, April 29 at 10 am for a discussion the Strategic Action Plan with leader state policymakers. Registration here: wse.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #energysky #energysky #hopkinsenergy

2. issuance of a Request for Info to identify "low hanging fruit" projects suitable for development;

3. Develop a strawman cost allocation framework; and

4. Establish HVDC design standards & explore "buying pool concept" to support purchases of necessary equipment.

Among others! #energysky

Interregional transmission saves money and improves reliability, but has been hampered by today's transmission planning processes. Key recommendations from today's Strategic Action Plan include:

1. better planning to identify "low-regrets" interregional transmission projects;

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Delighted to share the Strategic Action Plan from the 9-state Northeast States Collaborative on Interregional Transmission Planning: energyinstitute.jhu.edu/wp-content/u....

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Join the Northeast States Collaborative on Interregional Transmission on Tuesday, April 29 at 10 am for a webinar on what States can to do enhance interregional transmission! #energysky

Registration link: wse.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Pleased to share FERC comments filed by 9 states (CT, DE, ME, MA, MD, NJ, NY, RI, and VT) noting the importance of interregional transmission & identifying "low regrets" interregional transmission needs! Summary of NERC, DOE & other studies in the Appendix! 💡🔌 energyinstitute.jhu.edu/wp-content/u...

Connecting infrastructure to the grid has been a passion since I worked on FERC's original Order 2003. Surplus interconnection is fast and provides states a tool to accelerate policy achievement even in the face of long queues. Great to work with ‪@mfarmer.bsky.social & the GridLab team!

I wonder when/if we'll hear from business leaders on this. Imagine a new billion $ pipeline. It'll be half done in 2029. Does this mean that the next president simply reverses everything? How do you invest in American infrastructure? This is a tough genie to put back in the bottle.

Energy regulation is boring by design. Investment requires certainty and predictability & the boring part is a fundamental design feature, not a bug. There's some spicy stuff at the edges. But 90% of everything is BORING. More uncertainty = bad for business = bad for consumers, Red & Blue.

My sense it was opex on the DeepSeek side, but I wouldn't trust the article to know the difference!

Wonder if we'd get a different response if we posted this over on Twitter! 😂

WSJ quoted DeepSeek as saying their average training run costs $5.6 million, compared to public reports of $100 million-plus from the big U.S. players. Increasing energy efficiency of AI has long be viewed as a major load growth uncertainty. It bigly affects load growth forecasts.

Who thinks the rise of DeepSeek will appreciably reduce data center demand growth? Leaving aside whether DeepSeek itself is a game-changer, is there a next generation of AI development that tries to work smarter, not harder, with the attendent decrease in electricity consumption?
#energysky

President Biden Honors More Than 300 Americans with Nation’s Highest Award for Science and Mathematics Teachers and Mentors | OSTP | The White House Today, President Biden announced 336 teachers and mentors from around the nation as recipients of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) and the Presidenti...

Delighted to report that Mrs. EnergyAbe (a.k.a. Dr. Jenny Greene) won a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring for her work teaching algebra and math to inmates in New Jersey's state and federal prisons! Woot! www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...

Agreed! In the spirit of a new year, my hope is that transmission will go bipartisan. The economic development story has bipartisan appeal & many of the extreme load growth states are Red States. This changes tx from a Blue State issue to a national issue requiring national solutions. We'll see!

PJM has already responded in a press release issued on New Year's Eve, citing to its repeated warnings over reliability and potential shortages of energy and defending its actions. Should be interesting! 🔥#energysky

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In terms of impact, Pennsylvania suggests that “[l]eft unaddressed, PJM’s next capacity auction scheduled for July 2025 could result in over $20 billion in unnecessary energy costs for Pennsylvanians and consumers across the region.” 🔌💡

According to the complaint, "Three unexpected developments—(1) significant load growth; (2) the country’s most snarled interconnection queue; and (3) a compressed capacity auction schedule—have collided ... to produce record high prices that are ineffective at delivering new power generation..." 🔌💡

New complaint re: PJM capacity prices from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 👀🔥

Main argument is that "it is currently physically impossible for new resources to respond to high [auction] signals and enter PJM’s marketplace.”

Full complaint here: www.pjm.com/-/media/DotC...
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Expert Consensus on Carbon Impact open letter: Expert Consensus on carbon impact

Matching electricity consumption with the carbon intensity of the grid has great potential reduce emissions, and to improve how GHG impacts are measured. I was pleased to support a letter highlighting the potential and need for better metrics. 🔌💡 expertconsensusoncarbonimpact.com

I'll bite. To me, yes, thermal's a euphemism for fossil. But it’s okay! It's accurate(!), but avoids the slightly pejorative tinge of the "fossil" term. For those of us trying to drive consensus across Red State/Blue State audiences, those tonal nuances matter. Why alienate potential allies? 🔌💡