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Juan-Pablo Velez @jpv.switch.box · 06/09/2025

Report author here (sorry for tardiness). This is a very legitimate issue, and I'm happy to say that the rates as designed eliminate subsidies from heat pump to non heat pump customers, in either direction!

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Juan-Pablo Velez @jpv.switch.box · 25/05/2025

from the beating heart of Western Civilization?

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Juan-Pablo Velez @jpv.switch.box · 14/05/2025

but almost nobody actually gets off the grid, and rooftop solar folks without storage use the grid all the time

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Juan-Pablo Velez @jpv.switch.box · 12/05/2025

So if your house has higher heat loss, you'll be generally less comfortable and the unit will switch over the resistance backup heat more readily? (Planning on reading through Home Comfort book!)

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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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Juan-Pablo Velez @jpv.switch.box · 12/05/2025

How much sealing/insulation is needed to electrify the typical (old) single family detached home in New England and the Upper Midwest, and why?

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Juan-Pablo Velez @jpv.switch.box · 12/05/2025

Thunderbolts* is good actually

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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 · 29/04/2025

Intellectuals can have a lil essentialism, as a treat

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Juan-Pablo Velez @jpv.switch.box · 29/04/2025

The better was better in Milwaukee

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

Fucking _maintenance_. Not "build elevators in 2/3rds of #nymta stations that lack them," but maintenance... bc 10% of existing one don't work on any given day. Shameful. There are no excuses. Do better @mta.info! (And thank you to @riseandresist.bsky.social for mobilizing on this absurd issue.)

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

No, the bit in West Africa that uses Fahrenheit!

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Juan-Pablo Velez @jpv.switch.box · 25/04/2025

I agree with OP so I will apply confirmation bias to dismiss @zoltannagy.bsky.social's point about familiarity bias

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Juan-Pablo Velez @jpv.switch.box · 24/04/2025

ok i actually lol'd at this one

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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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Juan-Pablo Velez @jpv.switch.box · 24/04/2025

TIL your child is an orthodox Marxist—revolutions aren't made, they happen, necessarily

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Juan-Pablo Velez @jpv.switch.box · 24/04/2025

building the labor movement was much more glamorous in 1925

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Juan-Pablo Velez @jpv.switch.box · 24/04/2025

welfare-state-via-tax-code is not very pro-natal, arguably

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Juan-Pablo Velez @jpv.switch.box · 07/04/2025

It's pretty late in the day for this kind of thing to still be so commonplace

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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 · 05/04/2025

I definitely had to google that... which outs me as being only middlingly online.

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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

nysfocus.com

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...

nysfocus.com

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 · 02/04/2025

I honestly can't tell if this is satire

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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 · 15/02/2025

Fairly sure in absolute terms, not at all sure in per-GDP terms

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

I think it really depends on what compute workloads predominate the data center. Batch workloads like training AI models should be pretty interruptible.

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

Gas is just a bridge fuel they said. 🔌💡

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

The more accurate takes I've seen is that China is investing the most—by far—in clean energy and EVs. This is true. It's also true, at the same time, that they're still building a bunch of fossil fuel plants.

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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...

foodandwaterwatch.org

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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