Reposted by Jigar ShahJigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"You'll see us grow to 20 gigawatts by 2030." Voltus just raised $225M to pay factories, warehouses and big box stores to use less electricity. DOE says the country needs 80 GW of this by 2030. Dana Guernsey wants Voltus to be a quarter of it. New episode of Energy Empire out now 🗽🔌 0146
Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"You'll see us grow to 20 gigawatts by 2030." Voltus just raised $225M to pay factories, warehouses and big box stores to use less electricity. DOE says the country needs 80 GW of this by 2030. Dana Guernsey wants Voltus to be a quarter of it. New episode of Energy Empire out now 🗽🔌 0146
Reposted by Jigar ShahJustin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"But the bigger lesson from California is political. For too long, the clean energy industry has assumed that having the better idea—and friends in office—was enough. It isn’t," says @jigarshahdc.bsky.social www.deploy-action.org/newsroom/bei... via @deployaction.bsky.social 🔌💡deploy-action.orgBeing Right Isn't Enough: Jigar Shah on What Clean Energy Should Learn from Big Wins in Virginia and California — Deploy ActionThese wins show “what is possible when our industry invests in political execution with the same seriousness that it invests in technology and policy,” writes Jigar Shah. 086
Reposted by Jigar ShahTransition Times @transitiontimes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026In TT#17, we review the reporting on the Senate’s bipartisan permitting reform bill (BAAJA) and find that on net, it would be far better for the energy transition than having no reforms. We should support it and not let the perfect be the enemy of the good. www.transitiontimes.net/tt-17-my-ver...transitiontimes.netTT#17 – My Verdict on BAAJAThe bipartisan permitting reform bill would remove key hurdles to the energy transition—especially hurdles to siting transmission—and unlock vast amounts of wind and solar power. On the whole, it woul... 0116
Reposted by Jigar ShahLissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026hahaha wow not bad for a possum who lives in a tree and does not have a real job 1132
Reposted by Jigar ShahJohn Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026We’ve lost a great, cantankerous climate champion. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/c...nytimes.comAn Influential Voice in the Climate Debate Has Died at 66 (Gift Article)Joe Romm was a prolific writer who never hesitated to take on climate change deniers and the fossil-fuel industry — or even ostensible allies. 03112
Reposted by Jigar ShahJigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Solar Energy Corporation of India just auctioned 1 GW of renewable power that has to match a coal plant's schedule — checked every 15 minutes, penalties for shortfalls. It cleared at ₹5.25/kWh (~$55/MWh), fixed for 25 years. New comparable coal PPAs opened at ₹5.38-6.30 plus fuel price inflation. 15523
Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 05/10/20267 developers were awarded a contract for 1,070 MWs and now have to deliver 90%+ reliability over 25 years, it's a real stress test for the "renewables can't be baseload" argument. Now time for folks to execute. 2230
Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026For years the pitch against renewables was "sure, but can they be dispatchable?" India's grid operator just found 16+ companies willing to bid solar+storage to reach coal-plant reliability (90% demand fulfilment, 15-min compliance) at a cheaper price than new coal. 13710
Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Solar Energy Corporation of India just auctioned 1 GW of renewable power that has to match a coal plant's schedule — checked every 15 minutes, penalties for shortfalls. It cleared at ₹5.25/kWh (~$55/MWh), fixed for 25 years. New comparable coal PPAs opened at ₹5.38-6.30 plus fuel price inflation. 15523
Reposted by Jigar ShahJigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The cheapest, fastest tools already exist, and they sit waiting for our culture and norms to change. 13913
Reposted by Jigar ShahCommercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 04/10/2026‘total outlay of INR 1.86 trillion, with INR 500 billion (US$ 5.2 billion) allocated specifically for 50GWh of BESS…INR 1.37 trillion for intra-state transmission infrastructure to enable up to 135GW of renewable energy’energy-storage.newsIndia approves US$19.3 billion Green Energy Corridor Phase III with 50GWh BESSIndia's Union Cabinet has approved US$ 19.3 billion Green Energy Corridor, including US$ 5.2 billion for 50GWh BESS through FY2032-33. 184
Reposted by Jigar ShahVania @dawookie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Process your fear of future lack of planet into grief so you can SEE how easy saving the world can be. It's literally just LOVING life too much to hoard corpses. Money is corpses to eat later. 💲 >💚 = 🔥🌎 Moral clarity can SEE reality. Evil-dumb fear panic-eats, running from its OWN monstrosity. 041
Reposted by Jigar ShahLora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026it is mentally, intellectually, spiritually, exhausting to be dealing with the same injustices for an entire lifetime when we know, observe, speak on or report on the structural & societal norms causing & worsening it all. (this applies to many issues & news stories. cornell 7 most on my mind.) 522838
Reposted by Jigar ShahJosh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Good discussion on permitting reform with @jigarshahdc.bsky.social & @heinrich.senate.gov open.spotify.com/episode/6dkK...open.spotify.comThe Permitting Bill Is Out. Senator Heinrich Walks Us Through It.Energy Empire · Episode 142
Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The cheapest, fastest tools already exist, and they sit waiting for our culture and norms to change. 13913
Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I think they have the capacity of all of the customers you can convince to switch. 100
Reposted by Jigar ShahFortunat Mueller @42knot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026And if you get that heat pump installed before 12/31 Efficiency Maine will give you an EXTRA $500 rebate, in addition to their normal $1,000 (or $3,000 for low income customers). Please don't freeze this winter, electrify! 074
Reposted by Jigar ShahJigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Heating oil just hit $5.39/gallon in Maine, 60% above last year. A heat pump installed today pays back in 3–5 years and you keep the oil system for backup. 4.79 million households should be making this call right now. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...linkedin.comHeating oil is at its highest level in years across the Northeast at ~$6.00/gallon. Families are budgeting around $2,300 this season — up $600 from last year. Close watchers who once described Middle…...Heating oil is at its highest level in years across the Northeast at ~$6.00/gallon. Families are budgeting around $2,300 this season — up $600 from last year. Close watchers who once described Middle ... 49723
Reposted by Jigar ShahJigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Hear from @heinrich.senate.gov direction on @energyempire.bsky.social www.energyempire.fm/episodes/the...energyempire.fmEnergy Empire with Jigar ShahEnergy Empire explores how abundant, affordable energy is reshaping the global economy. A podcast by Jigar Shah about the people and billion-dollar deals driving the clean energy transition. 41611
Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Hear from @heinrich.senate.gov direction on @energyempire.bsky.social www.energyempire.fm/episodes/the...energyempire.fmEnergy Empire with Jigar ShahEnergy Empire explores how abundant, affordable energy is reshaping the global economy. A podcast by Jigar Shah about the people and billion-dollar deals driving the clean energy transition. 41611
Reposted by Jigar ShahJigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Energy is on the ballot this year. Weird for someone used to these issues being boring and ignored. Hope you enjoy the series! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...podcasts.apple.comEnergy on the Ballot: Who Do You Blame for Your Electric Bill?Podcast Episode · Energy Empire · September 28 · 37m 1103
Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Energy is on the ballot this year. Weird for someone used to these issues being boring and ignored. Hope you enjoy the series! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...podcasts.apple.comEnergy on the Ballot: Who Do You Blame for Your Electric Bill?Podcast Episode · Energy Empire · September 28 · 37m 1103
Reposted by Jigar ShahJorgy @jjorgensonmcr.bsky.social · 25/09/20262/3 @jigarshahdc.bsky.social the original article. "The program arrives at an awkward moment. California's Demand Side Grid Support program, with more than 1,100 megawatts of enrolled distributed capacity at its peak, is being defunded" www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-ho... 💡🔌linkedin.comHow Home Batteries Unlock the Grid's Next ChapterCalifornia is in the middle of an energy paradox. Electric demand is rising faster than at any point since the postwar era driven by data centers, EV charging, heat pumps, and the broad electrificatio... 021
Reposted by Jigar ShahEvan George @evanlgeorge.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I cleared today to walk the dogs and read “The Carbon Wave” by @leahstokes.bsky.social with Talk Talk’s Spirit of Eden on repeat. 4237
Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The 3–5 year figure works better with quilt and jetson in a dual-fuel partial scenario a 1–2 head mini-split covering the main living areas, reducing oil consumption by 60–70% but not eliminating it. 100
Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We can deploy a ton, look at Quilt and Jetson. Many folks just need a low cost room unit to reduce their bill www.quilt.com?_gl=1*1m5sn6...quilt.comThe smartest way to heat and cool your homeQuilt is the best home climate system available. Our electric, energy efficient heat pump uses smart technology to save homeowners money and cut emissions. 100
Reposted by Jigar ShahMiriam Grace in October @miriamgrace.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I was listening to @jigarshahdc.bsky.social about SAF and he mentioned hybrid electric and my brain immediately went to aluminum generators. Aluminum has 2.5x the energy density of diesel and like 2.8x the energy density of kerosene. The oxidation reaction is clean and green feedstock is possible! 121
Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Heating oil just hit $5.39/gallon in Maine, 60% above last year. A heat pump installed today pays back in 3–5 years and you keep the oil system for backup. 4.79 million households should be making this call right now. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...linkedin.comHeating oil is at its highest level in years across the Northeast at ~$6.00/gallon. Families are budgeting around $2,300 this season — up $600 from last year. Close watchers who once described Middle…...Heating oil is at its highest level in years across the Northeast at ~$6.00/gallon. Families are budgeting around $2,300 this season — up $600 from last year. Close watchers who once described Middle ... 49723
Reposted by Jigar ShahMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026Shanah Tovah, New York! Wishing all Jewish New Yorkers celebrating a sweet, joyful and meaningful Rosh Hashanah. Here’s to a new year filled with health, happiness and blessings (and yes, even another Knicks championship). 290188473254
Reposted by Jigar ShahJigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Today our country will pause to reflect on the 25th anniversary of September 11, 2001. For many of us, part of that reflection is celebrating a generation of service members and first responders who showed us what the best of this country looks like in the face of unspeakable darkness.energyempirepodcast.substack.comA Tribute to Ryan Christopher Popple: A Soldier, a Builder, and a Pioneer of Zero-Emission TransportationNovember 9, 1977 — December 15, 2021 081
Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Today our country will pause to reflect on the 25th anniversary of September 11, 2001. For many of us, part of that reflection is celebrating a generation of service members and first responders who showed us what the best of this country looks like in the face of unspeakable darkness.energyempirepodcast.substack.comA Tribute to Ryan Christopher Popple: A Soldier, a Builder, and a Pioneer of Zero-Emission TransportationNovember 9, 1977 — December 15, 2021 081
Reposted by Jigar ShahDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/09/2026Seattle friends! I'm talking with @leahstokes.bsky.social about her new book at Town Hall on the 14th. The first 10 card-carrying paid subscribers who email Nate get in free. Details in the note:volts.wtfWin tickets to an upcoming event! My NY climate week lineup, new faces at Volts, and just, hey, how’s it goingAlso: dogs, Denmark, and a birthday request. Mostly dogs. 1416
Reposted by Jigar ShahJigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026open.substack.com/pub/climatec...open.substack.comLos Angeles deserves a new mayorCare about climate change? Then vote for Nithya Raman. 1182
Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026open.substack.com/pub/climatec...open.substack.comLos Angeles deserves a new mayorCare about climate change? Then vote for Nithya Raman. 1182
Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026energyempirepodcast.substack.com/p/high-diese...energyempirepodcast.substack.comHigh Diesel Prices Have Countries Scrambling to Capture China's OvercapacityCheap EVs alone won't cut gasoline and diesel dependence. The countries getting this right are trading market access for factories, not just fuel savings. 030
Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Benchmark Minerals raised its 2030 cumulative-install forecast 11.5% in just three months — a sharp upward revision.canarymedia.comThe US built more grid batteries last quarter than ever beforeThe outlook for storage construction keeps getting brighter as everyone from the Trump White House to clean energy advocates to AI giants clamors for more. 0181
Reposted by Jigar ShahJigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Amazing work by my good friends at @pge4me.bsky.social. I hope this project with Google is a forcing function to get the utility and the regulator to open this kind of opportunity to all customers. 🧵 lnkd.in/p/gpGhUNBRlnkd.inHow Home Batteries Unlock the Grid's Next Chapter | Jigar Shah | 28 commentsPG&E ended 2025 with five flexible interconnection sites online. Data centers, EV chargers, hospitals are all waiting for hard path infrastructure that takes decades to permit and build. This week, P... 1308
Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026substack.com/note/m-6afbe...substack.comSanjay Shrestha: Clean Energy Finance, Nepal's Future, and What They Have to Do With Each OtherA Nepali-American's Case for Fit-for-Purpose Clean Energy 050
Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The Brattle Group found California’s VPP potential is 7,700 MW by 2035. That capacity is already installed, already connected, sitting in garages. The CPUC should make PG&E compensate these resources for the grid services they already provide. The batteries unlock the load growth. 0110
Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The problem: California defunded its own VPP program. Rocky Mountain Power dispatches home batteries 130+ times a year. California’s replacement program triggers a handful of emergency events. Google had to step in because Sacramento wouldn’t. 160
Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026PG&E has more behind-the-meter batteries than any utility in the country. Right now those batteries earn almost nothing. SHARE proves they can defer substation builds, speed up data center interconnection, and lower costs for everyone — when someone actually pays them to. 150
Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Amazing work by my good friends at @pge4me.bsky.social. I hope this project with Google is a forcing function to get the utility and the regulator to open this kind of opportunity to all customers. 🧵 lnkd.in/p/gpGhUNBRlnkd.inHow Home Batteries Unlock the Grid's Next Chapter | Jigar Shah | 28 commentsPG&E ended 2025 with five flexible interconnection sites online. Data centers, EV chargers, hospitals are all waiting for hard path infrastructure that takes decades to permit and build. This week, P... 1308
Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Great example of what a wealthy community can do to extract the most from a data center company. Question is who will help a much less wealthy community with the capacity to do the same. 110