Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 14/11/2025I call this work of art: Load, Generation Mix, Ratepayer #energysky 010
Reposted by NicholasTor "SolarFred" Valenza @torsolarfred.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Energy storage demand offsets EV slowdown, driving LG Energy Solution profit increase #energysky -- via Energy Storage News:energy-storage.newsEnergy storage demand offsets EV slowdown, driving LG Energy Solution profit increaseDespite a slowdown in electric vehicle (EV) sales in the US, LG Energy Solution (LG ES) experienced a quarterly rise in profits. 021
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Good news out of Pennsylvania with Eos Energy announcing an expansion of their battery manufacturing and creation of 735 new jobs. #energysky www.pa.gov/governor/new...pa.govICYMI: Governor Shapiro Announces $352.9 Million Eos Energy InvestmentICYMI: Governor Shapiro Announces $352.9 Million Eos Energy Investment 094
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Excited to see hitachi energy announce this new manufacturing plant of large power transformers in Virginia! We need to supercharge US grid manufacturing. #energysky www.hitachienergy.com/us/en/news-a...hitachienergy.comHitachi announces historic $1 billion USD manufacturing investment to power America’s energy future through production of critical grid infrastructureHitachi Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., and global leader in electrification, today announced a historic investment of more than $1 billion USD to expand the production of critical... 041
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Folks, I’ve officially made it - I’ve been followed by the New York State grid operator NYISO. You know, only the team that keeps the lights on for the biggest city in the nation! I try not to let the electricity go to my head. Let me know if you do control room tours @nyiso.com ⚡️⚡️⚡️ #energysky 030
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 22/08/2025I will keep making memes until this crisis has abated #energysky 081
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 01/07/2025There’s only one clean energy superpower on earth, and it’s not us. #energysky 1112
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Prolec GE’s recent announcement to invest $140M to double medium power transformer manufacturing capacity in Goldsboro, North Carolina #energysky www.prolec.energy/news/prolec-...prolec.energyProlec GE Invests an Additional $140 Million in the U.S. to Support North American Electric Grid Goals - Prolec EnergyProlec GE’s recent announcement to invest $140M to double medium power transformer manufacturing capacity in Goldsboro, North Carolina, will help the U.S. meet its electrification goals while working ... 131
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Gov Hotchul directs NYPA to build new nuclear reactor of 1 GW. All potential sites are majority owned by Constellation. #energysky www.wsj.com/business/ene...wsj.comExclusive | New York to Build One of First U.S. Nuclear-Power Plants in GenerationGov. Kathy Hochul has directed the state’s public electric utility to add at least 1 gigawatt of new nuclear-power production. 011
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 16/06/2025lol you know you’re too deep on the grid when the targeted LinkedIn transformer ads start coming #energysky 030
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 06/06/2025If we ever get building transmission again in this country we’ve got to do some cool designs like this. 011
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Governor Shapiro announces $25 million in funding for solar on PA schools #energysky dced.pa.gov/newsroom/sha...dced.pa.govShapiro Administration Invests More Than $22.6 Million to Help Schools Across Pennsylvania Lower Electricity Costs and Create Jobs by Installing Solar Panels - PA Department of Community & Economic De...Today’s Solar for Schools funding approvals through the Commonwealth Financing Authority will help Commonwealth schools install solar panels to lower energy costs and reduce carbon pollution — ensurin... 021
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Can anyone in #energysky explain what in the world NET CONE means in the context of PJM markets? I really don’t get it 001
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 04/06/2025According to Mark Christie, New Jersey is down 2.6 GW of generation over the last 10 years, meaning they’re reliant on imports (and their power prices are about to go through the roof). They still have a plan to build 11 GW of offshore wind but that’s not happening under Trump? @jessedjenkins.com 010
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 04/06/2025This FERC RTO/ISO resource adequacy conference is my Super Bowl #energysky www.youtube.com/live/OGMmmjh...youtube.comMeeting the Challenge of Resource Adequacy in RTOs/ISOs | Day 1 of 2 Technical ConferenceYouTube video by Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 012
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 02/06/2025President Trump nominates Laura Swett to be the new FERC commissioner after Marc Christie. Laura is currently a lawyer at Vinson & Elkins and has done work for the oil and gas industry on pipeline litigation #energysky 1npdf11.onenorth.com/pdfrenderer....1npdf11.onenorth.com 101
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Good reminder of where most US electricity comes from today, Hay Road Gas Power Plant in Delaware has 6 Siemens Gas Turbines and 2 GE Steam Turbines for a total nameplate capacity of 1,193 MW 110
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 20/05/2025TVA submits application to build first GE Vernova/Hitachi BWRX-300 SMR in the USA #energysky www.gevernova.com/news/press-r...gevernova.comTennessee Valley Authority submits application for construction of first BWRX-300 small modular reactor in the U.S. | GE Vernova NewsKNOXVILLE, Tenn. (May 20, 2025) – Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has submitted an application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to construct a GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GVH) BWRX-30... 010
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 20/05/2025President Trump Reverses, Allows Construction to Continue on Empire Wind 1 #energysky www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/c...nytimes.comIn Reversal, Trump Officials Will Allow Huge Offshore N.Y. Wind Farm to Proceed 141
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 18/05/2025I’m very grateful that my tax dollars funded the fantastic DOE Liftoff Reports, even if you can only access them via yard sale now #energysky 050
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 14/05/2025It doesn’t get enough press that authoritarian manufacturing superpower has built a complete monopoly across the critical energy inputs needed to win the century while we’ve mostly twiddled our thumbs and shipped ad-tech. Democratic-aligned countries should LOOSE money to re-shore this #energysky 010
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Damn, this is way worse than I thought #energysky 130
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Draft House R legislation repealing large parts of IRA Clean Energy agenda is out: punchbowl.news/wp-content/u... #energyskypunchbowl.news 020
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 02/05/20256 MW Vestas Onshore Wind Turbines parts staging in the port of Baltimore today! #energysky 020
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 01/05/2025This Apple ruling must have @reckless.bsky.social at a Green Bay packers win the Super Bowl level of excitement. Maybe an emergency Vergecast episode is in order? What do you think @davidpierce.xyz 110
Reposted by NicholasJustin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 22/04/2025EIA: "The 277 GW of utility-scale solar capacity installed in China in 2024 alone is more than twice as much as the 121 GW of utility-scale solar capacity installed in the United States at the end of 2024." www.eia.gov/todayinenerg... 🔌💡 162
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Badass solar+battery portable microgrid here on the whiting turner job site #energysky #greensky 011
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 19/04/2025IBEW President Kenneth Cooper, “Demand for skilled electricians has never been higher. Infrastructure investments, expanding energy technologies like wind and solar, nuclear, new high-tech manufacturing centers, means our economy is hungry for a new generation of electrical workers.” #energysky 153
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 17/04/2025PJM interconnection queue nerds will enjoy this new report from Synapse Energy Economics illustrating that electricity costs will rise by 60% in the PJM region by 2040 without queue reform. www.synapse-energy.com/sites/defaul... #energyskysynapse-energy.com 010
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Good news after a crazy week! Google is partnering with PJM to help bust through the interconnection queue. Glad someone was working on this, huh @jessedjenkins.com #energysky insidelines.pjm.com/pjm-google-t...insidelines.pjm.com 1103
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 09/04/2025My great grandfather mined coal, had a third grade education, never owned a car, worked on his hands and knees, was paid based on the weight of coal that he mined that shift. He was a kind man who grew strawberries. He died of black lung from the mine. Coal is deadly. #energysky 151
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 02/04/20254.5 GW of new nat gas turbines are planned for AI data center in Pennsylvania on Marcellus Shale field. SEVEN GE Vernova turbines and seemingly no solar or batteries. On the site of a former coal fired power plant - this is bad for the climate #energysky www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...businesswire.comHomer City Redevelopment and Kiewit Announce Country’s Largest Natural Gas-Powered Data Center Campus to Support AI and HPC DemandToday Homer City Redevelopment (HCR) and Kiewit Power Constructors Co. (Kiewit) announced the future of the former Homer City Generating Station. Homer City ... 021
Reposted by NicholasJoshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 02/04/2025I don't generally praise investor-owned utilities, but DTE is showing that it's serious about energy storage. But it's not out of the kindness of their hearts. It's because they need to comply with a Michigan state law. State policymakers deserve credit. www.utilitydive.com/news/dte-ene...utilitydive.comDTE Energy seeks proposals for 450 MW of energy storageEligible projects must be located in Michigan, serve the Midcontinent Independent System Operator or local distribution grids and be ready to operate by the end of 2028, DTE said. 14411
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Charging at the solar carport makes me feel ENERGY DOMINANT 🇺🇸⚡️🫡 #energysky 071
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 19/03/2025#energysky ELECTRIFYING news out of software startup Pearl Street Technologies that’s automating interconnection process studies for MISO. They cut the interconnection study time from two years to just TEN DAYS in their initial results! See the FERC letter here www.ferc.gov/news-events/...ferc.govCommissioner Rosner's Letters to ISOs/RTOs Regarding Interconnection AutomationAs a Commissioner at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), my priority is ensuring the reliable, affordable, and abundant energy that American families depend on to prosper and American bus... 261
Reposted by NicholasKyle Davis @kyledavis.bsky.social · 12/03/2025🔌💡 New S&P study “exec summary” predicts US electricity demand will surge by 35-50% between 2024 & 2040. An additional (net) 730-765 GW of renewables, 160-175 GW of storage, 60-100 GW of gas, and 10-25 GW of nuclear and geothermal needed by 2040 to maintain grid reliability.🤯 bit.ly/USNationalPo...bit.lyUS National Power Demand Study | ACPExecutive Summary Shows Demand for U.S. Electricity Could Grow 50% by 2040 032
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 11/03/2025I’m no musk fan, but you can’t deny he got the last laugh on not being invited to the Biden EV summit huh @karaswisher.bsky.social 000
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Good news for @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and the LPO team; Chris Wright says “We inherit a loan book and we follow the rule of law. So we’ve got to manage that loan book and follow the rule of law and do the best we can for the American taxpayers” - sounds like the closed loans are safe #energysky 191
Reposted by NicholasRic O'Connell @ricoconnell.bsky.social · 10/03/2025It is endlessly frustrating to hear how #PJM needs new gas because they can't rely on all the variable sources in their queue. Their *record* of variable generation as a percentage of load? A measly 24%. ERCOT is 76%. SPP is 90%. MISO is 44%. Come on PJM, you can do better! #EnergySky 2229
Reposted by NicholasJesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 10/03/202520 House Republicans sign letter urging the party not to repeal "sector-wide energy tax credits" and "avoid undoing... private sector investments which will continue to increase domestic manufacturing, promote energy innovation & keep utility costs down" subscriber.politicopro.com/f/?id=000001... 🔌💡subscriber.politicopro.com 514126
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Energy nerds & policy nerds, please enjoy three hours of sweet sweet subcommittee hearing content on meeting electricity load growth across the country, featuring the legendary @tnorris.bsky.social #energysky www.youtube.com/live/rSS8U9w...youtube.comEnergy Subcommittee Hearing: Scaling for Growth: Meeting Demand for Reliable, Affordable ElectricityYouTube video by House Committee on Energy and Commerce 062
Reposted by NicholasDan Schroeder @dvschroeder.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Paid a visit to Utah's nearly completed Faraday Solar Project. It'll be the largest solar farm in the state (>600MW) yet it's kinda under the radar, not yet listed at EIA or SEIA. Supposed to come online later this year and sell the power to Meta for its server farms. See alt-text for details. 🔌💡 2103
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 27/02/2025I didn’t realize that the United States is still the largest oil consumer on earth and just how much higher our consumption is compared to other countries. China only now reaching our level of consumption and they have 4x as many people 😮 #energysky #greensky 33611
Reposted by NicholasMeredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/... 15496623143
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Hyundai Ioniq 5 XRT looks soooo awesome⚡️ #energysky motorheadmama.com/i-drive-the-... 010
Reposted by Nicholasedcarley.bsky.social @edcarley.bsky.social · 24/02/2025I just published my weekly list of #CleanEnergy, #Climate, and #Sustainability Jobs. Check them out and share with a friend. #ClimateJobs #SustainabilityJobs #EnergyTransition #EnergyTransitionJobs #EnergyPolicyJobs #ClimateSky #EnergySky 🔌💡 edscleanenergysustainabilityjobs.com/eds-clean-en...edscleanenergysustainabilityjobs.comEd’s Clean Energy and Sustainability Jobs List 02.23.252025, #7 Hi there! Welcome to Ed’s Clean Energy & Sustainability Jobs List, where we know climate change is caused by burning fossil fuels such as gasoline, coal, oil, and fossil gas (“natural” gas),... 022
Nicholas @nicholas-gilbert.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Every single state in the sun belt should be figuring out how to replicate the ingredients to the massive solar boom in Texas. Makes every other state look like a chump. #energysky #greensky 2267
