Plus the people who are high earners and also benefiting from Prop 13 because they inherited a low tax rate etc. Those folks are also richer than they look on paper.
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Plus the people who are high earners and also benefiting from Prop 13 because they inherited a low tax rate etc. Those folks are also richer than they look on paper.
New paper out today in Nature Energy!
We evaluate how Congressional proposals for policy-driven transmission expansion would shape U.S. electricity costs, emissions, and reliability. Big implications for climate and grid planning.
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#EnergyPolicy #Transmission #CleanEnergy
Modeling Monday: How clean are EVs, really?
Short answer: it depends on the question. Attributional vs. consequential LCA, average vs. marginal, short- vs. long-run... the metric can flip the answer. 1/🧵
I'm dipping my toe back into the academic literature: who's got recommendations for good papers around transmission network reduction algorithms? 🔌💡
I promise to always boost anti-Prop 13 content, especially if it's got information and jokes.
Combustion turbines would seem to often be designed for similar flexibility, and not to have inertia only for its own sake.
ok but can we take a minute to think about CryShare? I had a baby who would not sleep, at all. very hard times. we were losing our minds. and I still would no sooner have handed the baby over to a stranger TO DRIVE HIM AROUND IN A CAR than saw off both my legs with a steak knife
The University of Washington plans to provide the affected students access to legal services that are paid for by their student fees.
It was fun while it lasted
I'm sure plenty of people have downloaded copies, but who's going to host something as canonical and convenient as NREL/EIA? This is a huge step back for the research community.
The fun story of Ann Arbor planning to build a duplicate distribution grid:
“I’ve explained this to people like, ‘This is the fifth-best solution, but solutions one through four are not viable for a variety of different reasons,’” Mathieu said. “Five is feasible. So, let’s do it.”
Energy Exemplar has blocked all TU Berlin students from academic licences for their energy modelling tool PLEXOS because competitor PyPSA is developed here. While deeply shocked, we believe in turning the other cheek. So we are offering all Energy Exemplar employees a free licence for PyPSA.
Today on Volts: 20 years ago, @thestranger.com.web.brid.gy published a piece in the wake of GW Bush's 2004 reelection: "The Urban Archipelago." I talk with then-editor @dansavage.bsky.social about the politics of cities in a time of reactionary backlash. www.volts.wtf/p/dan-savage...
See also: the opioid epidemic and the downturn of brick-and-mortar retail
Thinking back to the impact of Hurricane Helene on the NOAA databases (among other things): what are the most urgent data backup needs?
Which companies (if any) are doing it right?
It should be indexed in a way that matches the context in which the data are being looked at. Follow 0- or 1-based indexing based on the programming language, or make it abundantly clear via context in e.g. data tables.
21st century Upton Sinclair
Because of the Inflation Reduction Act, other policies, & innovation, US installed solar & wind power capacity in 2030 is now projected to be double what it would have been before the start of the Biden Administration. Double! That’s good. Let’s do even more now. www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
10 GW/hr net load ramp in ERCOT 😬
source: www.gridstatus.io/total-solar-...
Who wants to come work with us at AWS to help decarbonize power systems?
If you own a home, and install solar panels on it, are you doing anything to change how much fossil fuel gets burned in your region or around the world?
@emilypont.bsky.social joins @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social and @jessejenkins.bsky.social on SHIFT KEY to find the answer:
Software engineer looking to contribute towards the energy transition? 🌞🌬️🔋
Come to TU Berlin and develop PyPSA, one of the leading open energy system tools. PyPSA is used around the world to model our path to climate neutrality.
jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti...
Deadline: 15.3
Duration: 3 years
I'd guess that solving the SCED/SCUC is the biggest lift, so if you can find info on how well those problems parallelize, you're most of the way there (assuming that the tools are appropriately taking advantage of the amount of parallel compute made available to them)
Fascinating!
Do you have any gut feeling as to whether there's more room for new entrants to still be profitable, and if so, what penetration might be economic? Given the level of transmission between CAISO and the rest of WECC, how relevant is the CAISO penetration vs. the WECC penetration?
Why should we care about 'electrifying everything' as a goal of its own? I care about decarbonizing energy systems, and reducing emissions of other pollutants as well. If the best way to do that is electrifying everything, great. If not, that's fine too.
Betteridge's law of headlines
Housing policy is environmental justice policy (with receipts)
x-post from @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social elsewhere, original description:
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Tridevi Chakma,
JMP: 'The Causes and Consequences of Urban Heat Islands',
Website: tridevichakma.com
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JSON is bad: sets, comments, and trailing commas are good, actually.