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03.03.2026 17:43
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As utility bills continue to rise nationwide, United's Chloe Holden encourages lawmakers to invest in robust virtual power plant legislation that supports multiple distributed energy resources & provides reasonable but ambitious deployment timelines.
Read more from @canarymedia.com: buff.ly/hxMXXSS
Can virtual power plants curb rising utility bills? A dozen state legislatures are pushing measures to expand programs that pay customers to let their smart thermostats, batteries, and EVs relieve grid pressures—and save money for everyone else:
www.canarymedia.com/articles/vir...
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Good point and tbh I am hardly ever thinking ahead to an actually clean/electrified future
Cause DSM can work, and can be better than the status quo in some ways including for energy burden, AND does have all these risks
I hear that. I feel like it’s multiple bad options tho? Like I just saw a utility hire 15 lobbyists to kill a VPP bill so they can keep getting maximum peaker plants money. Which is also bad for people, in a different way than big brother data issues are. It doesn’t cancel out any of your points ofc
I do hear how it may sound like a techie corporate dream that’s not compatible with our political reality
*no way to be safe
I am interested in the conversations you have had with regard to this and what protections you think should be in place or if you think there is just no want to be safe while companies are accessing this data. I do tend to think, if ppl are adopting the stuff anyway we should do demand flex with it?
Niche post for gay lobbyists: the new MUNA single is a perfect soundtrack for when you are flailing miserably during legislative session
i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts
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Ok I'm listening
These rock
I think "Don't mention climate; focus on affordability" was naively assumed to be a safe centre-right climate position. But in the real world fossil fuel extraction and use are cripplingly expensive. 'Focus on affordability' = oppose fossil fuels.
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What about if it’s paired with a small battery / grid interactive? Genuinely thinking about the affordability pitch of products like this myself as a long term renter
US House of Reps has passed a bill to criminalize trans healthcare for people under 18. This bill can be still stopped in the Senate, call/write your senators & ask them to oppose.
Californians:
@schiff.senate.gov www.schiff.senate.gov/contact/
@padilla.senate.gov www.padilla.senate.gov/contact/
The most exciting thing about this is that they are planning a DIY option. DIY people are so excitable that this could, with smart marketing, become a Boy Trend and people will get into basic electrical work the way they’ve gotten into woodworking and brewing beer
every neoliberal policy analyst wants to "trim the fat" of society until the lean times come. community level resilience, redundancies, etc are good actually
Great piece on how better data can help utilities be more responsible with ratepayers' money. We need real-time data for distribution networks, and DERMs providers need to be getting real-time constraint signals from utility distribution network management systems.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/proble...
Just leaving this here for our friends in case any of them look at this post... nothing says I <3 NY like closing down gas peaker plants! This report by Clean Peak Coalition talks about how we can do it: www.nylpi.org/wp-content/u...
I'm just a Brooklyn resident, standing in front of
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, asking him to read Peak Coalition's report on demand flexibility as a tool for energy justice in NYC: www.nylpi.org/wp-content/u...
The “energy transition” has started to sound a little like “late capitalism” newrepublic.com/article/2008...
“Virtual power plants can respond quickly to deliver power or shift load, making the most out of our existing grid... and lowering costs for everyone.” -Edson Perez @advancedenergyunited.org
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/09/15/v...
NORC is doing interesting research on the question of how neighbors can be activated to support each other during disasters. What kind of neighbor are you in a disaster? They came up with some amusing/damning labels:
www.norc.org/research/pro...
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Over 2,800 Bakersfield homeowners recently got paid to participate in California’s Demand Side Grid Support (DSGS) program. Read more from The Bakersfield Californian: blog.advancedenergyunited.org/articles/the...
But also there’s no way to ever be sure :,)
Cleantech is an economic opportunity. Following recent US federal policy shifts, states can still develop and deploy cleantech to save money, improve health, and position their businesses and residents to thrive.
RMI shares six recommendations for states: bit.ly/4oijwXM