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Definitely interest in coordinating with our Northern neighbors as well, as evidenced by the recent Premiers/Governors meeting.

...that reduce costs & improve reliability across the northeast region. Candidate projects can be at any level of maturity, so long as they contribute to interregional transmission. Responses due Oct. 23, 2025. Full RFI available here: energyinstitute.jhu.edu/wp-content/u...

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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 · 29/05/2025

🚨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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The selected fellow will work with me (Abe Silverman) in supporting multi-state convenings including the Northeast States Collaborative on Interregional Transmission & more! We’ll work on lots of cool stuff – including: #energysky

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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

2. issuance of a Request for Info to identify "low hanging fruit" projects suitable for development; 3. Develop a strawman cost allocation framework; and 4. Establish HVDC design standards & explore "buying pool concept" to support purchases of necessary equipment. Among others! #energysky

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

Interregional transmission saves money and improves reliability, but has been hampered by today's transmission planning processes. Key recommendations from today's Strategic Action Plan include: 1. better planning to identify "low-regrets" interregional transmission projects; #EnergySky

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 · 19/02/2025

I wonder when/if we'll hear from business leaders on this. Imagine a new billion $ pipeline. It'll be half done in 2029. Does this mean that the next president simply reverses everything? How do you invest in American infrastructure? This is a tough genie to put back in the bottle.

EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Energy regulation is boring by design. Investment requires certainty and predictability & the boring part is a fundamental design feature, not a bug. There's some spicy stuff at the edges. But 90% of everything is BORING. More uncertainty = bad for business = bad for consumers, Red & Blue.

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My sense it was opex on the DeepSeek side, but I wouldn't trust the article to know the difference!

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Wonder if we'd get a different response if we posted this over on Twitter! 😂

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WSJ quoted DeepSeek as saying their average training run costs $5.6 million, compared to public reports of $100 million-plus from the big U.S. players. Increasing energy efficiency of AI has long be viewed as a major load growth uncertainty. It bigly affects load growth forecasts.

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

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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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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Agreed! In the spirit of a new year, my hope is that transmission will go bipartisan. The economic development story has bipartisan appeal & many of the extreme load growth states are Red States. This changes tx from a Blue State issue to a national issue requiring national solutions. We'll see!

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PJM has already responded in a press release issued on New Year's Eve, citing to its repeated warnings over reliability and potential shortages of energy and defending its actions. Should be interesting! 🔥#energysky www.pjm.com/-/media/DotC...

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In terms of impact, Pennsylvania suggests that “[l]eft unaddressed, PJM’s next capacity auction scheduled for July 2025 could result in over $20 billion in unnecessary energy costs for Pennsylvanians and consumers across the region.” 🔌💡

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According to the complaint, "Three unexpected developments—(1) significant load growth; (2) the country’s most snarled interconnection queue; and (3) a compressed capacity auction schedule—have collided ... to produce record high prices that are ineffective at delivering new power generation..." 🔌💡

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

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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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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EnergyAbe @energyabe.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I'll bite. To me, yes, thermal's a euphemism for fossil. But it’s okay! It's accurate(!), but avoids the slightly pejorative tinge of the "fossil" term. For those of us trying to drive consensus across Red State/Blue State audiences, those tonal nuances matter. Why alienate potential allies? 🔌💡

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

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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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3) address colocation, particularly given the joint jurisdiction federal and state regulators have over various aspects of the service. And 4) adopt standardized load interconnection processes at state-federal level week out duplicative data centers requests. #energysky

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Federal-state consensus is needed around 1) whether to ring-fence non-data-center retail customers from bearing the costs of expanding the transmission grid to meet data center load. 2) whether cost allocation rules specific to data centers constitute undue discrimination. #energysky

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

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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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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This is the biggest question in the energy industry today. Three concepts are in tension: 1) utilities shouldn't be in the business of judging how you use electricity; 2) the concept of universal service; and 3) consumer cost. Look for an upcoming OpEd from Sue Glatz and myself on this!

PJM's proposal is to let new gen jump in and save the day. The proposal is, in theory, tech neutral. But the clear read is that the Board is thinking new nat gas. I'd suggest energy storage is ready for a starring role in saving PJM - we can get new programs launched fast enough. #energysky

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The role of data centers in accelerating the crisis is an important read-through, since "PJM’s load forecast will be increasing from these levels to reflect growing data center demand. This will exacerbate the need for new resources." #energysky

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According to PJM, we would need between 62 - 100% of all projects in the interconnection queue to reach commercial operation in order to avoid a reliability shortfall by 2030 -- which is highly unrealistic. So what's to be done? #energysky

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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And totally agree that nobody benefits from regulatory uncertainty. Consto makes a good case starting on page 22 for the various steps that FERC could take. If you're in favor of getting data centers up and running quick, this is as good a roadmap as there is. #energysky

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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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? 🔌💡

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...

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...

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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Darn. Wish I'd thought of it first.

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Read the filing for our collective answers to these questions! #energysky

... in light of large data center-driven transmission investments? 4) does colocation fundamentally conflict with long-standing principles that each interconnected generator has a single POI? And 5) how to ensure sufficient transparency for collocated load and generation?

We suggest that FERC ask 5 questions: 1) is the existing interconnection process sufficient to evaluate a colocation configuration or are changes needed? 2) what transmission costs should a colocation customer be responsible for & do we need a new transmission rate? 3) how to ensure rate fairness...