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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

"Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair PJM?" If they are willing, who are we to say no? www.pjm.com/-/media/DotC...

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Whoa -- just noticed NERC acknowledging a data error in its MISO numbers leading to a lot less reliability problems. Bad data leading to a wrong (and highly impactful) conclusion is my nightmare! Good on NERC for acknowledging and correcting the record! #EnergySky www.nerc.com/news/Pages/S...

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Delighted to share the Request for Information issued today by the Northeast States Collaborative on Interregional Transmission! The RFI delivers on a recommendation made in the NE Collab's April Strategic Action Plan. The RFI focuses on identifying interregional "Candidate Projects"....

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

🚨New paper alert🚨 “A State Playbook for Managing Data Center-Driven Load Growth.” We try to answer questions we've heard from State policymakers across the country and explain how States can best deal with data center load growth uncertainty! t.co/muGQacicrT

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

🚨Job Alert🚨Johns Hopkins' Sustainable Energy Institute is hiring a fellow/post-doc (PhD, JD or equivalent experience) to support our work on interregional transmission, state engagement, and offshore wind planning! #energysky Details & application available: apply.interfolio.com/168478

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Delighted to share the Strategic Action Plan from the 9-state Northeast States Collaborative on Interregional Transmission Planning: energyinstitute.jhu.edu/wp-content/u.... #energysky #HopkinsEnergy

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Join the Northeast States Collaborative on Interregional Transmission on Tuesday, April 29 at 10 am for a webinar on what States can to do enhance interregional transmission! #energysky Registration link: wse.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Pleased to share FERC comments filed by 9 states (CT, DE, ME, MA, MD, NJ, NY, RI, and VT) noting the importance of interregional transmission & identifying "low regrets" interregional transmission needs! Summary of NERC, DOE & other studies in the Appendix! 💡🔌 energyinstitute.jhu.edu/wp-content/u...

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Connecting infrastructure to the grid has been a passion since I worked on FERC's original Order 2003. Surplus interconnection is fast and provides states a tool to accelerate policy achievement even in the face of long queues. Great to work with ‪@mfarmer.bsky.social & the GridLab team!

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Who thinks the rise of DeepSeek will appreciably reduce data center demand growth? Leaving aside whether DeepSeek itself is a game-changer, is there a next generation of AI development that tries to work smarter, not harder, with the attendent decrease in electricity consumption? #energysky

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Delighted to report that Mrs. EnergyAbe (a.k.a. Dr. Jenny Greene) won a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring for her work teaching algebra and math to inmates in New Jersey's state and federal prisons! Woot! www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...

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President Biden Honors More Than 300 Americans with Nation’s Highest Award for Science and Mathematics Teachers and Mentors | OSTP | The White House

Today, President Biden announced 336 teachers and mentors from around the nation as recipients of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) and the Presidenti...

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

New complaint re: PJM capacity prices from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 👀🔥 Main argument is that "it is currently physically impossible for new resources to respond to high [auction] signals and enter PJM’s marketplace.” Full complaint here: www.pjm.com/-/media/DotC... 🔌💡

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Matching electricity consumption with the carbon intensity of the grid has great potential reduce emissions, and to improve how GHG impacts are measured. I was pleased to support a letter highlighting the potential and need for better metrics. 🔌💡 expertconsensusoncarbonimpact.com

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Expert Consensus on Carbon Impact

open letter: Expert Consensus on carbon impact

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RTO Insider @rtoinsider.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Even meeting half of the projected demand from new data centers in Virginia over the next 15 years will prove difficult, said a report released by a legislative commission. #energysky🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/zY9u50UoMLR Writer: James Downing

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Opinion piece at Utility Dive on how state and federal regulators need to work together to address data center costs and protect consumers, since neither can do it alone! Thanks to Sue Glatz and Mahala Lahvis for co-authoring. We make four points. #energysky www.utilitydive.com/news/regulat...

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Can regulators protect small customers from rising transmission costs for big data centers?

Federal-state consensus is needed around whether to ring-fence non-data-center retail customers from the costs of expanding the transmission grid to meet data center load.

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

PJM's Board letter is a must-read for those interested in clean energy policy. The specific roadmap is important, but more relevant is the PJM's assertion that there is simply not enough clean energy to maintain reliability without new (likely gas) generation. 🔌💡 www.pjm.com/-/media/DotC...

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

AD24-11 Recap: Constellation. Definitions wins wars! Consto loves "Fully Isolated Co-Located Load." Who could assess transmission charges on FICLLs"? Seriously, a thoughtful filing from Consto with several suggestions for steps FERC could take and some overtures on $ for ancillary services. 🔌💡

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

AD24-11 Recap: Talen argues colocaters should pay for transmiss. service to the extent it actively uses the grid (eg, on net load). Not surprising; but I suspect the economics would support paying transmission charges on gross load. Speed + regulatory certainty > minimizing costs, no? 🔌💡

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

AD24-11 Recap: Agree with AEU's point that co-location is largely a symptom of a dysfunctional grid & we need an "all of the above" approach to resource adequacy. Less convinced that large BTM loads reduce congestion - but feel free to correct me #energysky! elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/fil...

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

AD24-11 Recap: love the pro-market optimism of LS: "Saying “no” is not an option – we have to find a way to “yes”... We need to identify barriers, knock them down and then let the creativity of the competitive market[.]" Less sold on the jurisdictional analysis. 🔌💡 elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/fil...

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

AD24-11 recap: Data Center Coalition's comments are refreshing: "Put simply, if upgrades or services are provided by the grid to serve the co-located load, DCC supports those services being paid for by the co-located load." They also take on load forecasting and iX reform. 🔌💡

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Interested in data center colocation? So are Sue Glatz and I! Today, we filed comments (on behalf of ourselves) in the technical conference docket talking about the need for new approaches to colocation cost allocation and planning. Filing available here! #energysky elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/fil...

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

From today's PJM Load Analysis Subcommittee meeting showing load growth expectations over the next 20 years. What do folks think? How would you grade PJM's work? Note: "Load Adjustment" = data center+manufacturing growth. #energysky

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Not an energy story, but flagging this beautiful article on Princeton's Prison Teaching Initiative. I taught with them; and it's an amazing experience to go inside and teach inmates who are just so hungry to learn. Props to the wife who was there at the beginning! nassauweekly.com/closest-to-t...

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Closest to the Solution: The Story and Legacy of Princeton’s Prison Teaching Initiative - Nassau Weekly

A Second Look writer speaks with formerly incarcerated students, PTI educators, and Princeton administrators about the resilience of the program

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

If only it were that easy.... 🔌💡

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Nothing like estranged family members duking it out over the Thanksgiving table! Today's family members are Exelon and Constellation, who were cosy corporate affiliates just a couple of years ago. Now, nuke operator Constellation has harsh words for their ex.... 🔌💡 elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/fil...

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Today's PJM Load Analysis Subcommittee is one of those critically-important stakeholder meeting you likely never heard of. Main takeaway: the speed at which data center-driven load growth is showing up between now and 2030 is intense. www.pjm.com/committees-a... #energysky

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Can "Buiild, Baby, Build" replace "Drill, Baby, Drill" as the mantra of the new administration's energy policy? Love this artcile on a conservative case for transmisison expansion by David HIll and Jason Bordof. 🔌💡 foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/20/t...

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The Key to a Successful Trump Energy Agenda Is Electricity

Rather than drill, baby, drill, it should be build, baby, build.

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The FERC complaint against PJM filed by consumer advocates is 🔥. Apropos of the FERC interconnection proceeding, Montalvo's affidavit notes: "High prices cannot bring new generation into the market more quickly than it can be interconnected[.]" Hard to argue!🔌💡 elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/fil...

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Tyler delivering the goods on interconnection!

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Last week New Jersey issued its long-awaited revised energy storage straw proposal! www.nj.gov/bpu/pdf/publ... Stakeholder meeting on November 20 and comments are due Dec. 18! The utility scale portion is now targeted for 2025 implementation, with the distributed portion in 2026. 🔌💡

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Just to emphasize Miles' point on www.scarcitytosurplus.com/dashboard. I asked the site for candidate projects in New Jersey (my home state). You get a clickable map with capacity factor, etc. Great for a quick & dirty analysis of the potential for surplus in your area!

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I’m always skeptical when someone offers me a free lunch – but surplus interconnection is about as close to “free” as we’re likely to see in the energy sector. I'm deeply troubled by our collective inability to bring new generation resources online in a timely manner. #EnergySky

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Very funny to be sitting in a NARUC luncheon and seeing successive ads from EPSA, ACP, and EEI. Graphics were 90% the same. 🤷

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

It's Energy Twitter in a box - amazing! 🔌💡

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Kent Chandler delivering as usual in @rtoinsider.bsky.social: "Everybody thinks their baby is the cutest. It’s almost never true. There can only be one cutest baby. There’s always a way to do things better… You can make your baby cuter.” I think he's talking about ISO market design...? 🔌💡

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

Page for Page, the Ohio PUC's docket on explosive data center load growth in AEP Ohio’s service territory is the most intriguing docket of 2024. (There should be an award!) So many issues: trans cost allocation, retail hedging, fed-state jurisdictional divides - like Preggo, it’s in there. 🔌💡

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Today the NE States Collaborative released a whitepaper talking about the opportunities of HVDC transmission to support offshore wind on the East Coast and the benefits of collective state actions to drive HVDC standardization. energyinstitute.jhu.edu/wp-content/u... 🔌💡

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Diagraming out a 1,000+ page order is a challenge, but with a little help from my friends (Sue Glatz, Claire Wayner, Pauline Foley and others), we diagrammed out FERC's Order No. 1920 on transmission planning , including scenario plan development & cost allocation! Hope it's useful! 🔌💡

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 09/07/2024

Delighted to report that 10 states – Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont – signed a Memorandum of Understanding to support development of interregional transmission! Link here: energyinstitute.jhu.edu/northeast-st...

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Northeast States Collaborative on Interregional Transmission - Johns Hopkins - Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

New paper alert We ask "what are the critical research challenges necessary to get our grid ready for 100% clean energy by 2035?" Includes real-world topics we need to solve to make clean energy policies work - along with a few proposed solutions! t.co/VFHWQO8Kmq #energysky

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

Excited to on a new paper looking at what makes for a successful transmission project. We took a database of over 1,300 transmission projects over the past 20 years and ran it through a machine learning algorithm to see what factors made success more or less likely. #energysky t.co/FveUt55jWG

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A Quantitative Analysis of Variables Affecting Power Transmission Infrastructure Projects in the US - Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA | CGEP

This report represents the research and views of the author. It does not necessarily represent...

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

For the first time ever, we are starting to have effective competition between the electric and gas "monopolies" for who's going to heat and cool our buildings. That's going to require a major rethink in gas utility business model & regulation. This report frames the issue beautifully.

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

PJM laid out the details on data centers "co-locating" w/existing gen. Colocation can speed a data center's "Time-to-Power," but then the energy is less available. Big deal! Especially when DCs are co-located with nuclear or clean resources! Expect some fireworks! #energysky pjm.com/-/media/mark...

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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

Yesterday, DOE and NREL issued two reports on offshore wind: the Action Plan for Offshore Wind Transmission Development (www.energy.gov/gdo/atlantic...) and the Atlantic Offshore Wind Transmission Study (www.nrel.gov/wind/atlanti...). There's a lot to unpack here! A thread: #energysky

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Atlantic Offshore Wind Transmission Action Plan

An Action Plan for Offshore Wind Transmission Development in the U.S. Atlantic Region (Action Plan) details how wind resources could efficiently be captured off the Atlantic Coast of the United States...

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