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Drew Smithee

@drewsmithee.bsky.social
2.7K followers 561 following 103 posts

Former IRP, Current lurker. Here to check out the kinder, quieter, #EnergyTwitter, that's been missing from my life lately. 🔌💡

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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?
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RTO Insider @rtoinsider.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Another 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
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Autumn T. Johnson @autumntjohnson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Generally 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...
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Utility-authored securitization bill is horrible deal for ratepayers and state | Arizona Capitol Times
HB2679 would allow every electric utility in Arizona to create bonds for the debt they have incurred and obligate customers to pay the bonds back.
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Drew Smithee @drewsmithee.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Who remembers the scene in Weeds with with the giant light up cross (stolen from a church) gets them busted because of the thermal signature?
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Miriam Wasser @miriamwasser.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
3/ 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
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Drew Smithee @drewsmithee.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I'm shocked.
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Drew Smithee @drewsmithee.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Amazed it lasted this long
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 28/01/2025
Chevron & 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 🔌💡
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Chevron Plans to Build Gas Plants to Power AI Data Centers
Chevron 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...
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 23/01/2025
Wow. 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... 🔌💡 ⚛️
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South 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.
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Ric O'Connell @ricoconnell.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
This is too good #EnergySky
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Autumn T. Johnson @autumntjohnson.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Not 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
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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The 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 🔌💡
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Lawsuits that reach state supreme courts could drive climate action during Trump 2.0
The 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...
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Drew Smithee @drewsmithee.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
To 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.
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Drew Smithee @drewsmithee.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
lol
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Drew Smithee @drewsmithee.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Testing 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.
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POWER Magazine @powermagazine.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
POWER'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...
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Mobility, Flexibility, Scalability: SMRs Forging Nuclear's Future
The 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
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Drew Smithee @drewsmithee.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
For 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...
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Drew Smithee @drewsmithee.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Introduce 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
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Drew Smithee @drewsmithee.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
EPA announcement from the incoming administration 🔌💡
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Benjamin Williams @energybenjamin.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Timely #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/...
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FERC Staff Issues Request for Comments Regarding Large Loads Co-Located at Generating Facilities Technical Conference
Event Details
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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?
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Drew Smithee @drewsmithee.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
If you didn’t like taking a simple average of a backcast GFS weather model you’ll love this regression
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James Coleman @energylawprof.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Huge 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...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/11/2024
COP29 is the first climate conference attended by the Taliban apnews.com/article/afgh...
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The Taliban will attend a UN climate conference for the 1st time
An Afghan official says the Taliban will attend a UN climate conference for the first time since their takeover of Afghanistan in 2021.
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 12/11/2024
Yass! Here's the best ChatGPT could do on short notice. I'm adding this to my Blue-Black Control deck build now. Game on!
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Miles Farmer @mfarmer.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Trying 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
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Joe Daniel @electronecon.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
In 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.
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Kevin Stevens @handle.invalid · 11/11/2024
The coolest map of power plants ever made. #energysky
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Tyler Norris @tnorris.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
US Southeast energy & sustainability starter pack - only a small group so far, let's grow and diversify it! go.bsky.app/AZ6Xw1U
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Drew Smithee @drewsmithee.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
This 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.
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Drew Smithee @drewsmithee.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
It's heart warming that some of you followed me once, and not only didn't block me, but followed me again. 🥰
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