Drew Smithee @drewsmithee.bsky.social · 29/04/2025@joshdr83.bsky.social did you see this? Also, did you leave Twitter for good? Any inertia thoughts here? 161
Reposted by Drew SmitheeRTO Insider @rtoinsider.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Another mature offshore wind project is facing financial write-downs and a potential yearslong delay in the wake of the Trump administration’s moves to shut the sector down. #energysky🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/nXPa50V8hKm Writer: John Cropley 143
Reposted by Drew SmitheeAutumn T. Johnson @autumntjohnson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Generally I support securitization as a means to closing old fossil infrastructure sooner, but HB 2679 has issues and I won't support it as written. #energysky #greensky azcapitoltimes.com/news/2025/02...azcapitoltimes.comUtility-authored securitization bill is horrible deal for ratepayers and state | Arizona Capitol TimesHB2679 would allow every electric utility in Arizona to create bonds for the debt they have incurred and obligate customers to pay the bonds back. 012
Drew Smithee @drewsmithee.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Who remembers the scene in Weeds with with the giant light up cross (stolen from a church) gets them busted because of the thermal signature? 010
Reposted by Drew SmitheeMiriam Wasser @miriamwasser.bsky.social · 06/02/20253/ Advocates of networked geothermal say the model is still viable. (Two other pilots in Mass are moving ahead. One, in fact, is already built and collecting data in its first heating season) The whole point of pilot projects is to learn, they say 1102
Reposted by Drew SmitheeJesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 28/01/2025Chevron & GE Vernova formed a partnership to develop natural gas-fired power plants next to data centers, aiming to tap into artificial intelligence’s surging demand for electricity, with their first gigawatt online by 2028 www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Follows a similar NRG+GE deal last week 🔌💡bloomberg.comChevron Plans to Build Gas Plants to Power AI Data CentersChevron Corp., investor Engine No. 1 and GE Vernova Inc. formed a partnership to develop natural gas-fired power plants next to data centers, aiming to tap into artificial intelligence’s surging deman... 72914
Reposted by Drew SmitheeJesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 23/01/2025Wow. With data center owners hunting for power, South Carolina utility Santee Cooper is accepting bids to buy the site of the disastrous V.C. Summer nuclear project, which cost $9 billion before being cancelled in 2017 with the twin reactors just 40% complete www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/b... 🔌💡 ⚛️nytimes.comSouth Carolina Utility Wants to Sell Unfinished Nuclear Power Site (Gift Article)The utility, Santee Cooper, is trying to sell two nuclear reactors that it abandoned in 2017 as tech companies seek new sources of electricity for data centers. 1410418
Reposted by Drew SmitheeRic O'Connell @ricoconnell.bsky.social · 10/01/2025This is too good #EnergySky 1231476
Reposted by Drew SmitheeAutumn T. Johnson @autumntjohnson.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Not only did the ACC uphold APS' punitive fee on solar, it also ordered APS to increase the fee in its next rate case, which APS is expected to file in 2025. APS has said the fee should be as high as $88 a month PER CUSTOMER. #energysky #solar #arizona 3103
Reposted by Drew SmitheeJustin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 19/12/2024The Montana Supreme Court just handed young climate activists a landmark victory by affirming the state constitutional right to a clean environment. It could provide a template for action at other state supreme courts: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/lawsuits-tha... by me at Quitting Carbon 🔌💡quittingcarbonmedia.comLawsuits that reach state supreme courts could drive climate action during Trump 2.0The Montana Supreme Court just handed young climate activists a landmark victory by affirming the state constitutional right to a clean environment. It could provide a template for action at other sta... 062
Drew Smithee @drewsmithee.bsky.social · 04/12/2024To my knowledge, the first widespread use of neural networks was in boiler optimization software in the late 80s and early 90s. Yet we call utilities dinosaurs when it’s essentially baby ChatGPT. 0100
Drew Smithee @drewsmithee.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Testing the energy capacity of #energysky... What's everyone's favorite IRP in the last 18 months or so. Bonus points if I haven't read it. 22215
Reposted by Drew SmitheePOWER Magazine @powermagazine.bsky.social · 19/11/2024POWER's Special Report on #nuclear power is now available, providing a wealth of information about the nuclear sector worldwide. Want to know more about small modular reactors? Here you go. #energysky www.powermag.com/mobility-fle...powermag.comMobility, Flexibility, Scalability: SMRs Forging Nuclear's FutureThe need for emissions-free power generation, along with the ability to provide more power when and where it’s needed, is driving research and development of smaller nuclear reactors. Energy industry 021
Drew Smithee @drewsmithee.bsky.social · 13/11/2024For an #EnergySky #FlyFishing crossover I have: @aarnegranlund.bsky.social @simonmahan.bsky.social @joshdr83.bsky.social @mini-linux.bsky.social @drewsmithee.bsky.social Need a few more to make it... 3323
Drew Smithee @drewsmithee.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from what you do now: - McDonald's Ice Cream Machine Fixer - Arborist - Manufacturing Engineer - Reluctant Wind Turbine Climber 090
Drew Smithee @drewsmithee.bsky.social · 12/11/2024EPA announcement from the incoming administration 🔌💡 120
Reposted by Drew SmitheeBenjamin Williams @energybenjamin.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Timely #EnergySky topic: Co-location. FERC, following its Technical Conference is now requesting comments regarding large loads Co-Located at Generating Facilities. More here: www.ferc.gov/news-events/...ferc.govFERC Staff Issues Request for Comments Regarding Large Loads Co-Located at Generating Facilities Technical ConferenceEvent Details 031
Drew Smithee @drewsmithee.bsky.social · 12/11/2024👀 I mean I didn't really care when it was hand crafted followers, do you really think I'm bothered by a rando that logs in every 6 months that found me in a starter pack? 1130
Drew Smithee @drewsmithee.bsky.social · 12/11/2024If you didn’t like taking a simple average of a backcast GFS weather model you’ll love this regression 010
Reposted by Drew SmitheeJames Coleman @energylawprof.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Huge D.C. Circuit decision holding that the Council on Environmental Quality never had authority to issue the National Environmental Policy Act regulations that have been used for nearly half a century media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/doc... 032
Reposted by Drew SmitheeKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/11/2024COP29 is the first climate conference attended by the Taliban apnews.com/article/afgh...apnews.comThe Taliban will attend a UN climate conference for the 1st timeAn Afghan official says the Taliban will attend a UN climate conference for the first time since their takeover of Afghanistan in 2021. 75014
Reposted by Drew SmitheeJesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 12/11/2024Yass! Here's the best ChatGPT could do on short notice. I'm adding this to my Blue-Black Control deck build now. Game on! 0101
Reposted by Drew SmitheeMiles Farmer @mfarmer.bsky.social · 10/11/2024Trying to put together a list of the energy regulatory lawyers on this platform. Can you help me fill it out? #EnergySky 🔌💡 go.bsky.app/DdUzfgj 13249
Reposted by Drew SmitheeJoe Daniel @electronecon.bsky.social · 11/11/2024In the past 5 days I've had 5 federal employees reach out asking about employment opportunities. Even if Schedule F doesn't get used the fear from the threat is going to cost us a lot of institutional knowing. 191
Reposted by Drew SmitheeKevin Stevens @handle.invalid · 11/11/2024The coolest map of power plants ever made. #energysky 37222
Reposted by Drew SmitheeTyler Norris @tnorris.bsky.social · 10/11/2024US Southeast energy & sustainability starter pack - only a small group so far, let's grow and diversify it! go.bsky.app/AZ6Xw1U 64412
Drew Smithee @drewsmithee.bsky.social · 10/11/2024This starter pack thing certainly changes follower discovery. I spent 3+ years on Twitter with less than 100 followers screaming into the wind. It took me tweeting an unpublished @jessejenkins.bsky.social paper and doxing myself to get this many followers. 4331
Drew Smithee @drewsmithee.bsky.social · 09/11/2024It's heart warming that some of you followed me once, and not only didn't block me, but followed me again. 🥰 3160