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Shreyas Sudhakar @shreyassudhakar.com · 17/03/2025

The "spark gap" - the price difference between electricity and natural gas - is one of the biggest challenges in heat pump adoption. While heat pumps use 3-4 times less energy than gas furnaces, higher electricity rates can sometimes offset these efficiency gains. (1/3)

A comparison of Electricity and Natural Gas rates with PG&E, a Northern California utility.

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Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social

Two people riding bikes in Amsterdam. One says “if anyone proposed this in my town I’d kill them”

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Juan-Pablo Velez @jpv.switch.box · 28/04/2025

Speaking of failings of blue state governance: just helped a struggling mom get her stroller down subway stairs, she was dangerously close to losing control. Elevator was out. Upon leaving the station, ran into protest outside of @mta.info's HQ. Their chant: "what do we want? elevator maintenance!"

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Building Decarbonization Coalition @buildingdecarb.org · 24/04/2025

BIG NEWS: #SB282, the Heat Pump Access Act, advanced in #CALeg yesterday! This critical legislation will streamline the permitting process for heat pumps, making it faster and more affordable to modernize homes with efficient heating & cooling. @scottwiener.bsky.social #BuildingDecarb #EnergySky

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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Another year or three and renewables will meet 100% of additional power demand. And then they will keep going from there. The trope that new energy technologies are only ever additive will take some time to die, but die it will - as all pseudo-scientific cargo cults eventually do.

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Juan-Pablo Velez @jpv.switch.box · 04/04/2025

What if instead of spending billions to replace old natgas pipes (that we need to start shutting down), we just gave the affected customers heat pumps? Our latest @switch.box report got an excellent write-up by @colinreports.bsky.social

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Utilities Spend Billions Replacing Gas Pipes. Is There a Better Way?

In many cases, electrifying homes is cheaper, according to one new study.

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Colin Kinniburgh @colinreports.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

BREAKING: Four climate justice groups sue NY over delays in implementing its climate law. Groups claim the state is “stonewalling necessary climate action in outright violation” of its legal obligations nysfocus.com/2025/03/31/n...

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Climate Groups Sue Hochul Administration Over Climate Law Backtracking

Environmentalists have long charged that New York is falling short of its climate mandates. Now, they’re taking the state to court.

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Juan-Pablo Velez @jpv.switch.box · 15/02/2025

The fact that "Baby Shark" is this generation's "Baby Beluga" proves that we live in a fallen age.

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Juan-Pablo Velez @jpv.switch.box · 13/02/2025

Hey #energysky #econsky, anyone aware of good research on the demographics of heat pump adopters?

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Michael Wara @michaelwara.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Sitting in a meeting today with three former energy secretaries and three former FERC commissioners and this paper just keeps coming up. Tyler and his coauthors are doing great work and it is being noticed.

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Gregor Macdonald @gregor.us · 13/02/2025

Gas is just a bridge fuel they said. 🔌💡

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Jason Brown @brownmjason.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

If you want to know more about the past, present and future of #BuildingDecarb in #Maryland, or how their experience can help you decarbonize buildings in your state, register for the BDC National Policy Call: Maryland today! #Heatpump #Cleanheat #EnergySky

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Alex Beauchamp @alexatfww.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Disappointing to see @govkathyhochul.bsky.social backtrack on #NYHEAT in her budget, but we're going to win this with or without her. All attention now moves to the Assembly. We can and will win it this year to lower bills and slash pollution. Let's go! www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/01/21/g...

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Gov. Hochul Backtracks On Support For NY HEAT Act As Energy Bills Rise

All eyes turn to State Assembly to pass popular legislation to tackle skyrocketing energy bills, fossil fuel use

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Switchbox @switch.box · 21/01/2025

Preview! Dandelion Energy CEO Kathy Hannun will talk at this Thursday's Speaker Series event about what state's are getting right and wrong when supporting deployment of ground source heat pumps. Don't miss it! RSVP here: lnkd.in/g4XF8A9s

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Since nobody asked, here is a map showing where polar bears have been found in Iceland after drifting over from Greenland on icebergs.

A map of Iceland with dots showing where polar bears have been found in Iceland after coming over from Greenland on icebergs. There are a lot of dots.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

"The median price of a home in California is $869,000. In Texas it is $349,000." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-crisis-o... I really really have found myself enjoying the work in Liberal Currents of late.

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The Crisis of Democratic Governance

State Democrats have failed to deliver what the American people want.

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Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart @pelegri.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I've done a pass through the Spanish Electricity Market from the POV of a customer. The initial driver was my ongoing unhappiness that when California chose to adopt Income Graded Fixed Charges (IGFC) I saw no discussion anywhere of ... #EnergySky open.substack.com/pub/pelegri/...

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Spanish Electricity Market and Rates

Including, what is Maximum Contracted Power?

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

The path to avoiding the worst of climate change runs through state senates and city councils, public utilities commissions and planning bodies, co-op boards and HOAs and PTAs and neighborhood associations. Remember the physics definition of power: it’s work over time.

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Today seems like a good day to share this Scientific American story on how vaccines have saved more lives throughout history than any other intervention www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

It's official: I'm writing a book. Should be out early fall 2026. Thrilled to be working with MIT Press.

Book announcement for "The Carbon Wave."

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

some ways to generate electricity A) use sunlight to drive photosynthesis in plants, let plants die, wait ~100 million years, dig up fossilized plants, burn plants, use heat to boil water, use steam to drive a rotating turbine, use generator to make electrons B) use sunlight to make electrons

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Severin Borenstein @severinborenstein.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The ever-insightful Mohit Chhabra's excellent blog post addressing recent handwringing about solar curtailments in CA. Curtailments are a symptom, not the problem. We need broader smoother markets, transmission investment, and retail rates that reflect actual costs. www.nrdc.org/bio/mohit-ch...

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Feasting on the Glut: Putting Renewable Curtailment in Context

Negative wholesale electricity prices and renewable curtailment in California sure seem alarming. The truth, however, is that money isn’t being wasted.

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Kyle Davis @kyledavis.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

🔌💡Yes, reconductoring & rebuilding almost 5,000 miles of AEP transmission lines in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, & West Virginia! I know you Europeans already know all about it, but we’re still catching up here in the US! More please! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 www.energy.gov/lpo/articles...

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LPO Announces Conditional Commitment to AEP to Upgrade Nearly 5,000 Miles of Transmission Lines

AEP will reconductor or rebuild almost 5,000 miles of transmission lines across multiple states, increasing transmission capacity.

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Building Decarbonization Coalition @buildingdecarb.org · 16/01/2025

In the Albany Times Union, BDC’s Lisa Dix explains how the #NYHEAT Act provides NY with a “blueprint for a cleaner, healthier and more affordable future” and urges Governor Kathy Hochul “to make this vision a reality.” #BuildingDecarb #ThermalEnergyNetwork #EnergySky bit.ly/3Co9txc

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Commentary: NY HEAT Act is the push toward cleaner energy that New York needs

Commentary: The NY HEAT Act will help cut ties with fossil fuels while helping families keep costs down.

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Juan-Pablo Velez @jpv.switch.box · 14/01/2025

Welp, New York's cap-and-trade system has been delayed by another year by Gov. Kathy Hochul. By law, the state must cut total emissions 40% from 1990 levels by 2030. Punting on the policy puts this goal firmly out of reach & deprives New Yorkers of the benefits outlined in @switch.box's report 🔌💡

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POLITICO Pro: Gov. Hochul punts on cap-and-trade style climate funding program

The governor has delayed action on a sweeping program to charge for greenhouse gas emissions.

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Switchbox @switch.box · 14/01/2025

Our most recent report on NY's forthcoming Cap-and-Invest program was covered by Politico, along with another excellent study by @rff.org and @nycejalliance.bsky.social that reached similar conclusions about the transformative potential of putting a price on carbon in New York State. #energysky

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POLITICO Pro: Most New York households would benefit from higher cap-and-invest prices, reports say

Two reports backed by environmental advocates found distributing money raised from a cap-and-trade program would leave households better off.

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Building Decarbonization Coalition @buildingdecarb.org · 14/01/2025

We celebrate Governor Kathy Hochul's commitment to significant funding for #BuildingDecarb, including #ThermalEnergyNetworks, in her #SOTS, and we urge her to prioritize #NYHEAT in her Exec Budget, to lower costs for families & advance neighborhood-scale decarb. #EnergySky bit.ly/3PCEosO

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Statement in Response to Governor Hochul’s 2025 State of the State Address

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Switchbox @switch.box · 13/01/2025

New York is preparing to launch a Cap-and-Invest (C&I) program that could be transformative for the state, catalyzing an economy-wide shift to clean energy, while raising billions of # a year to invest in decarbonization projects—according to a report we dropped just this morning. 1/4 🔌💡#climatesky

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Report: NENY | Switchbox

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Juan-Pablo Velez @jpv.switch.box · 13/01/2025

Go work for the most effective utility consumer advocates in New York!

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Juan-Pablo Velez @jpv.switch.box · 13/01/2025

@kevinjkircher.com skimming your notes on Monte Carlo simulation and getting triggered; having unpleasant flashbacks to mathstats, proving that estimators are unbiased

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Sean Dague @dague.net · 12/01/2025

Moar Busses go Vroom! This is exactly what was supposed to happen with congestion pricing, and hopefully more cities to take notice.

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Cartoons Hate Her! @cartoonshateher.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Antisocial behavior and drug use has made many parents afraid to ride public transportation. They’ve been told to get over it or move to the suburbs. My latest: www.cartoonshateher.com/p/subways-ar...

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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Good morning with good news: India doubled solar installations in 2024, compared to 2023, to a record high 24.5 GW. Wind additions also rose 21% Utility-scale additions nearly tripled & rooftop rose 53% to 700,000 rooftop installations in 10 months! www.pv-magazine.com/2025/01/10/i... #energysky

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Dan Gearino @dangearino.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I wrote about which states to watch on clean energy policy as legislatures convene. The answers included some of the usual suspects: CA, IL, MA, NY and TX. If this was a 10,000-word column, I would have talked about CO, NC and OH and others. insideclimatenews.org/news/0901202... #energysky

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What to Expect from State Governments on Renewable Energy Policy in 2025 - Inside Climate News

As states focus on carrying out existing laws, don’t hold your breath waiting for big moves.

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Brian Jaffe @brianjaffe.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Not a new video, but definitely worth a watch ⬇️ We need to legalize single staircase apartments. They fit nicely into existing neighborhoods, and the (historic) risk of fire in such buildings has long since been mitigated by improvements in building codes/materials/methods. youtu.be/iRdwXQb7CfM?...

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Why North America Can't Build Nice Apartments (because of one rule)

YouTube video by About Here

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Travis R. Eby @travis-robert.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I refuse to shut up about this: NYC started charging $9 to bring a car into our most transit-rich zone, the haters & trolls predicted doom, but traffic evaporated instantly and here’s Times Square tonite (even after the holiday tourists have left). For a better future, build transit & price driving!

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Juan-Pablo Velez @jpv.switch.box · 08/01/2025

New York's PUC just ordered all the state's investor-owned utilities to procure 350MW of energy storage—300MW of this is just for ConEd/NYC. A good first step, though it represents just 5% of the state's 2030 goal of 6GW of storage. #energysky

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New York utility Con Edison launches RFP for bulk energy storage projects

ConEd and O&R utilities have issued a joint Request for Proposals (RFP) for bulk energy storage and dispatch rights in New York, US.

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Killian Daly @energykillian.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

New NREL modelling of 61 scenarios of US power sector thru 2050 is out. Under a current policies mid case, solar and wind look set to dominate with nuclear and gas still very much in the mix and storage ramping significantly #energysky (1/n)

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