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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

rebranding transmission service to transmission-as-a-service (TaaS)

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Ok but obviously Cajun music is more interesting and important

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

chatgpt has some comments on electricity market design👀

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

someone needs to build an AI agent that’s sole purpose is to “retire” misaligned/nefarious AI agents and call it blade runner

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

In 1927 PSEG, PEC, and PPL interconnected their systems to pool power. This effectively was “interregional” transmission at the time. The same people fighting transmission today benefit massively from the interconnected system pioneered in the past that is what we know as “the grid” today.

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Come for the elite climate and energy reporting, stay for dope music

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

If the anti-RTO crowd is actually concerned with consumer protection, it’d be nice to see them advocate for minimum transparency requirements. The amount of data (both planning and operations) readily available in RTO regions versus traditional regions is stark

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Risks…? The issue is, the even though the data center load growth forecasts can be duplicative, the power industry’s pace of change will still be the limiting factor to new development www.utilitydive.com/news/load-fo...

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Been on a social media break for the best possible reason. Can’t express in words how proud I am. Both Momma and the boys are doing well thankfully. Their big sister has been a great helper so far and has adjusted well to no longer being the only child!

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Jeff Dennis @energylawjeff.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I’m proud of the hard work our team did to take the Transmission Facilitation Program from legislative text to a powerful tool for transmission deployment that provides real benefits to real people at low risk to taxpayers. This video shows some of those benefits. www.energy.gov/gdo/articles...

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Southline: Grid Deployment Office’s Critical Role in Powering the Southwest

Southline’s journey is a major undertaking. Building a transmission line across two states and six counties involves a wide range of stakeholders, physical terrain to navigate, and local and environme...

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

People replying to this are acting like all rural areas have grocery stores in the immediate area, so they assume instead of two hours these folks could walk to one or something. For instance we had about an hour round trip to the nearest grocery store, so two hours isn’t much further

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I see this same issue with a lot of folks on acid rain and the Clean Air Act. The eternal curse of successfully averting a disaster - people begin to believe it wasn’t an issue in the first place.

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

We need to build more transmission, this is obvious. But what I think a lot of people overlook is the fact that even if we build more tx, we still need to completely overhaul the interconnection process. The current process does not make any sense for a high renewable penetration grid

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

basically impossible for me to limit it to four but I’ll try Sturgis Simpson - “A Sailor’s Guide to Earth” Godspeed You! Black Emperor - “Luciferian Towers” Margo Price - “Midwest Farmer’s Daughter” Kendrick Lamar - “good kid, m.A.A.d city”

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

bringing the micro to macro analysis and the macro to micro analysis

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

so is HALEU basically just medium enriched uranium? 🔌💡

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

this is basically what utility self-funded upgrades are btw 🔌💡

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

oh come on. just submitted an interconnection request and got this??

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Modeling is easy. However, modeling a system well, choosing the right methodology, setting up the inputs, assumptions and scenarios, etc., such that the output is worthwhile (and then interpreting the results correctly) is difficult.

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Monsters Inc gave me unrealistic expectations about the speed of new energy technology development

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

new transmission plan just dropped

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I genuinely don't think folks understand what the FERC ruling on Talen meant, cause it doesn't mean anything close to this.

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

“The electrons must flow. My service territory… my utility”

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Work in power long enough and you too can be cursed with knowledge of the grid no human should have to know

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; power systems protection will be the next big issue facing the energy transition after interconnection & permitting - we’re already seeing these issues play out in IBR standards. This is a great resource to learn the basics from a pro

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James Hewett @jameshewett.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I get why people left, but I miss the dank energy memes and self-deprecation… so I made a starter pack. go.bsky.app/6J1B7RK

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

With the success of chips designed specifically for AI, Bitcoin, video game graphics, etc., are asics going to become the norm?

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Fantastic book, highly recommend. Another rather timely quote wrt to the current dilemma we find ourselves in: “a system just can’t respond to short-term changes when it has long term delays. That’s why a massive central-planning system necessarily functions poorly”

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

When can we get betting on future generation mixes added to polymarket/kalshi??

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Petition Bluesky for a latex add-in!

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

While I’ve always thought of DLRs as an operational tool with low value for planning, with risk hours in many systems switching to winter (either outright winter peaking or at least dual peaking) the case for DLRs as a planning resource is becoming stronger. 🔌💡

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Y’all don’t know ball* *powerflow

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I keep trying to reconcile these two maps. The only thing I can think of is they made an assumption that by increasing the transfer between two regions, the power stops at the importing region, ignoring the rest of the grid - which is obviously wrong.. And even that doesn’t really explain it 🔌💡

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Why’s everyone suddenly obsessed with utility/ISO OATTs?? 🔌💡

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Gonna start periodically reposting old bangers from twitter just to farm likes lol

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Update: I’ve made the executive decision to change the acronym MVP from multi-value project to multi-vibe project 🔌💡

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

someone should think of a way to price electricity more granularly to take into account things like transmission congestion. idk could help send efficient price signals on where to build new generation, transmission, and storage

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

With the amount of experience Big Tech has with the energy industry as one of the largest industrial purchasers of power, you'd think they'd have a better understanding of the challenges the industry faces 🔌💡

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Completely forgot about this account, probably should start posting here more lol

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

If thermals are concerned about ramping ability, maybe they should consider installing battery storage? A hedge against ramp rate limitations, if you will.

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

This is not original at all, but the latest volts pod made me think of it. The opportunity set for repurposing retiring coal plants w/ nuclear and/or BESS facilities is massive. Would have an outsized impact on providing inertia and 24/7 clean power.🔌💡

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

ELCC is inherently a system level metric and can't be divorced from transmission & storage. Build in more deliverability of the system should in theory increase the ELCC of resources dependent on said transmission. Same applies to storage. 🔌💡

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

RECs have been under fire for a while now, and I think that’s good as we need to push for more granularity with time matching (and deliverability & additionality as the next frontiers). That said, I think it’s worth acknowledging the impact RECs had in launching the industry 🔌💡

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

YEAH BUT DID YOU KNOW THE SUN GOES DOWN? WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN THE WIND ISNT BLOWING? RENEWABLES NEED 100% BACKUP. DID YOU THINK ABOUT THAT?! 🔌💡

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Aaron Stoll @aaronstoll.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

It’s always “tax credits for clean energy cause market distortions” and never “mispricing pollution causes market distortions” 🔌💡

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