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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

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lake effect kid @mattenloe.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

It's about time

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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Canadians lets get that maple syrup tunnel built yesterday

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Patrick Bean @ptbean.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Checkers needs to be relegated, and Cookout called up. America will heal once everyone realizes you can get cheeseburger with a side of corn dog and quesadilla, plus a 32 ounce sweet tea for $8. Or upgrade to one of their 40 flavors of milkshakes for another $1

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Tyler Norris @tnorris.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

1/ 🚨New study alert!🚨 🔌💡 My DukeU colleagues and I just released a 1st-of-kind study on how the US grid could integrate up to 100 gigawatts of data centers w/out major new infrastructure, provided modest load flexibility (0.5%/yr). AI load growth can be managed faster, cheaper, & cleaner. 🧵👇

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

It’s about the western part of Virginia

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Patrick Bean @ptbean.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

And he's probably a million times happier. Totally worth it

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Patrick Bean @ptbean.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Duquesne Power and Light. Cleco. Puget Sound Energy

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Patrick Bean @ptbean.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Agreed, it is a critical backbone that likely would have had significant outage implications for the area. One note, your summation to 1066 only represents voltage. Need to include current to get power capacity. Assuming 4000 amps = >4200 MW of delivery capacity

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Patrick Bean @ptbean.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Also not suggesting public power is worse, just that the same criticisms and challenges with investor owned utilities applies to public power.

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Patrick Bean @ptbean.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Public power isn't a panacea. There are plenty of examples of poor service (PREPA in Puerto Rico), high prices (LIPA), service restoration issues (Austin Energy 2023), and criminal misconduct (LADWP circa 2022; Jacksonville Electric 2018)

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Patrick Bean @ptbean.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Service doesn't end if a utility goes bankrupt, they have a legal obligation to provide service in their franchise territory (e.g. PG&E continued to provide service during bankruptcy in 2019). Service may end up being degraded (e.g. longer restoration and service timelines), but service doesn't end

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Patrick Bean @ptbean.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Thanks for the back and forth and sorry for throwing all the info out there. It's an often overlooked and important part of our lives that is also kind of fascinating

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Patrick Bean @ptbean.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Government/publicly owned utilities (LADWP, Austin Energy etc) are overseen by local government boards or city council. Rural electric co-ops have boards made up of customers/community members, and those boards sign off on co-op rules/tariffs.

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Patrick Bean @ptbean.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

That's a fair. The good news is most of the regulation occurs at the state or local level. State utility commissions oversee investor owned utilities (ConEd, PG&E, Duke etc). Commissioners are appointed or elected, and there are large career staff.

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Patrick Bean @ptbean.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

A key difference is electric transmission & distribution are highly regulated. There's lots of regulatory proceedings for line extension & rate rules to ensure fairness. Consumer advocates and any interested stakeholders can participate in those processes. That doesn't exist for oil/gas extraction

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Patrick Bean @ptbean.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Could it be due to the 2015 amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard program?

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Patrick Bean @ptbean.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Utilities typically require data centers pay their full grid connection costs upfront, and increasingly require minimum bill/monthly payments for 5+ years to ensure other ratepayers don't pick up the tab. That includes security/collateral requirements if companies go belly up

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Patrick Bean @ptbean.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Generally I don't think lines co-existing or crossing through other territories is an issue. It's an issue if they are trying to connect/provide service in the other's territory

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Patrick Bean @ptbean.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Have seen it in Texas. Georgia also has an interesting law enabling new large loads to choose their provider, meaning muni/co-op/IOUs can go into a neighbor's territory to serve a customer psc.ga.gov/utilities/el...

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treb @treblaw.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

OK we are live!!! Let's grant some wishes with the collective Bluesky money cannon - Holidays 2024 Edition. Thread w/links, details on how you can participate and why we do this annually for foster kids. Last year we kept wiping out wishes and One Simple Wish (not yet on here) had to replenish LFGGG

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