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🇺🇦 Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳️ 🐇 @jglarusso.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Combined output of Natural Gas plants in New England ~ 11 p.m. equaled ~5 GW. It would have be 8 GW but for Wind contributing ~1.9 GW and Québec Hydro delivering 1.1 GW via NECEC transmission line. A clear demonstration of the effect state policies are having on New England’s bulk power system.

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🇺🇦 Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳️ 🐇 @jglarusso.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Have every expectation they’ll soon be an Executive Order issued by His Venerable and Imperial Excellency that commands all of us to wear our underwear on the outside of clothing.

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🇺🇦 Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳️ 🐇 @jglarusso.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Which New England generating resource is producing more electricity than any other resource right now? Behind-the-meter solar.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Yesterday the Telegraph reported on my comments about air conditioning. The comment section is quite something. I have apparently become a hero of the anti net zero crowd by saying something what I think is sensible about air con. Allow me to point out three ironies in this 🧵

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🇺🇦 Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳️ 🐇 @jglarusso.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I didn’t anticipate the persistent antagonism toward the New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) transmission line. B/c power is simultaneously being exported back to Quebec via a different intertie the import/export exchange has been cast as “greenwashing”—which is completely & utterly unfounded.

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🇺🇦 Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳️ 🐇 @jglarusso.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

At a time when affordability remains the focus of conversations about energy in New England, this report recommends public financing strategies for transmission development that have the potential to substantially reduce the total cost of capital—savings that would lower electricity customer bills.

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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

An important lawsuit. We cannot normalize the federal government paying off private corporations with taxpayer money to alter their business plans because the president's donors don't want competition: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/c...

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Blue States Sue Trump Administration Over Offshore Wind Deal

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 07/06/2026

beating the nazis was good actually

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🇺🇦 Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳️ 🐇 @jglarusso.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Where’s the natural gas lobby when you need it?

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Erik Nygren @erik.nygren.org · 30/05/2026

WTF exploded in #Somerville or #Cambridge? Reports coming in from all over the area and dust fell from the ceiling.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/05/2026

JFC new IEA report shows: orders for fossil methane plants for data centres are bigger in the US than they for *any other country for any other reason* (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) "if data centres were a country, they would be the second-largest destination for gas turbines ordered from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026"

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Sure but they‘re really stupid questions

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🇺🇦 Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳️ 🐇 @jglarusso.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

1/3 True story… I just showed this New Yorker cartoon to my beloved, and said, “this was my Commencement speaker…from all those years ago.” She says she can relate—hers was terrible too. “Who was yours?”, she asked. Now, dear reader, I would never speak ill of the departed, and I am not. But their…

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🇺🇦 Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳️ 🐇 @jglarusso.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

🧵 🔌💡 Saturday revealed the extent to which “out of market” transactions are influencing power flows across northeast N. America. It was a noteworthy day here in the ISO New England Inc. service territory. It was the weekend, with lower forecasted system loads; clear skies promised abundant solar…

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

"Heat pumps just shift gas burning to the power station." Wrong. Even if 100% of electricity came from gas, a heat pump at SCOP 3.8 uses 51% less gas than a boiler. At a terrible SCOP 2.5, still 25% less. David MacKay made this point in 2008. The maths hasn't changed.

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🇺🇦 Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳️ 🐇 @jglarusso.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

🧵 So much behind-the-meter solar and so little load today, it looks like ISO New England chose to curtail imports, including the New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) transmission line, rather than gas resources. There’s only a GW of gas production, and NECEC capacity is usually at 1.1 GW.

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🇺🇦 Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳️ 🐇 @jglarusso.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

🧵 Today is going to be a notable day—perhaps a record-setting day—in the ISO New England Inc. service territory. To begin with, system emissions are much lower than usual. Per Electricity Maps, CO2eq emissions are 125g/kWh currently—an extremely low emissions rate for ISO-NE.

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🇺🇦 Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳️ 🐇 @jglarusso.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

🧵 Enbridge is back again attemptingto enrich itself at the expense of New Englanders. That it’s preying on public concerns regarding energy affordability is insidious. Here are some facts. Fact 1. Pipelines won’t lower gas commodity prices… How do we know this? Because between 2019 - 2024, …

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🇺🇦 Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳️ 🐇 @jglarusso.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It is alarming, and damaging that the Chief Justice is a self-deceived naif.

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🇺🇦 Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳️ 🐇 @jglarusso.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Just as the 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme Court decision hastened the Civil War, the Supreme Court’s Louisiana v. Callais decision yesterday will further erode civil society and hasten division. Congressional district lines will become ramparts. Not blue v. gray this time, but blue v. red. …

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🇺🇦 Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳️ 🐇 @jglarusso.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Portrait of the power outage that left 6500+ Somerville MA electricity customers without power last night.

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🇺🇦 Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳️ 🐇 @jglarusso.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Eversource reporting three customers out in my neighborhood in Somerville, when it’s clear my entire block is out and poweroutage.com says 1,000+ are without power.

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🇺🇦 Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳️ 🐇 @jglarusso.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

More than 50% of all New England electricity demand being served by behind-the-meter solar midday today .

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🇺🇦 Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳️ 🐇 @jglarusso.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

🧵 #EnergySky #MApoli Regrettably, National Grid set a startling new record in 2025 for the amount of natural gas it delivered to Massachusetts customers. In the Annual Return it filed with the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities earlier this month, National Grid reported that it had…

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Countries with more smart meters sell more heat pumps. There are many other factors. Correlation does not mean causation. But smart meters matter for heat pumps: time-of-use tariffs make running heat pump cheaper if run smartly. From paper with @jaapburger.eu www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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🇺🇦 Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳️ 🐇 @jglarusso.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

🧵 Waiting until the day after April Fool’s Day, Eversource Energy and Avangrid moved to delay paying back a $1 billion+ refund they owe their electricity customers. The refund is owed because the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission found that the 10.57% base return on equity charged by…

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🇺🇦 Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳️ 🐇 @jglarusso.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

1:3 Unreliable data and a conclusion about used hybrid/EV uptake… It used to be that Prius drivers were a breed apart. Their cars were festooned with bumper stickers (“Beware Invisible Cows!”). They drove 15 in 20s. They always stopped dead when they had the right-of-way to flash their…

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🇺🇦 Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳️ 🐇 @jglarusso.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

*ahem* I would like to take this opportunity to correct the Record…

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🇺🇦 Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳️ 🐇 @jglarusso.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

1:2 Wow! …7+ GW of behind-the-meter solar production at one point yesterday here in the ISO New England Inc. control area. Another milestone of sorts will be the day when solar reduces the midday minimum load to half the overnight minimum load. Using yesterday as an example, the minimum overnight…

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Granite Geek NH @granitegeeknh.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Estimated rooftop solar in New England topped 7 GW yesterday for the first time, one year after it topped 6 GW for the first time. Utility solar is creeping up toward 1 GW. www.gridstatus.io/records/ison...

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Grid Status

Comprehensive data and tools for understanding the US Electric Grid

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Former NASA climate scientist, now Senior Scientist at Project Drawdown, Dr. Kate Marvel, has a fantastic piece in the New York Times today. This is a must-read if you care about science, the planet, and the future. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...

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Opinion | NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Just wanted to remind folks, especially the GOP and the FDD, that Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal didn’t give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz or allow it to keep 60% enriched uranium. It sent $1.7 billion to Iran versus the tens of billions Iran will now make from tolls. 🤷🏽‍♂️

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🇺🇦 Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳️ 🐇 @jglarusso.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

1/2 @acadiacenter.bsky.social's Emily Koo testifying re RI's budgetary priorities with respect to its Renewable Energy Standard: "The approach of delaying and weakening the Renewable Energy Standard in and capping energy efficiency doesn't simply remove a charge or a fee. It doubles...

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🇺🇦 Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳️ 🐇 @jglarusso.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“Perhaps the civilization that will be destroyed tonight is our own.” youtu.be/lKSXph-qxPY?...

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Our Darkest Hour

YouTube video by Paul Krugman

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🇺🇦 Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳️ 🐇 @jglarusso.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I don’t generally go for “What ifs?,” but this is an intriguing one.

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🇺🇦 Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳️ 🐇 @jglarusso.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

This used EV is the same price as used ICE vehicles of comparable vintage. You don’t need to have pate de fois gras be a regular part of your diet to afford a car that’s less expensive to fuel and requires less maintenance.

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Edwin Lyman @nucsafetyucs.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Talk about a Good Friday news dump: the NRC has quietly voted to phase out the crucial, force-on-force security inspections that have helped ensure #nuclear plants remain protected against terrorist attacks since the aftermath of 9/11. Worst NRC ever. www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2609/...

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