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Quentin Watkins @quentinwatkins.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The gap between load growth and infrastructure timelines is widening. A Google-funded study—using SAInt to assess flexibility across the full year and reveal additional interconnection capacity—shows we can narrow it. Read the white paper here: www.encoord.com/resources/bl...

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Quentin Watkins @quentinwatkins.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Great piece from @tnorris.bsky.social Tyler Norris in the NYT earlier this week, ICYMI. Gift link below. "A Simple Fix to America’s Soaring Electricity Prices" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

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Opinion | A Simple Fix to America’s Soaring Electricity Prices

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

New from NREL: A map that brings together U.S. data center demand, major transmission lines, fiber-optic networks, and population centers in one view: docs.nrel.gov/docs/gen/fy2... 🔌💡

A new NREL map brings together U.S. data center demand, major transmission lines, fiber-optic networks, and population centers in one view.

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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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Alexander C. Kaufman @alexckaufman.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

A new study by @tnorris.bsky.social found a way to power the AI boom without building a bunch of new gas plants. The results “buy us time” to figure out what Deepseek means and for nuclear to catch up to growing demand needs. kaufman.substack.com/p/study-find...

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Study finds a way to power the AI boom without a bunch of new gas plants

New research could buy us time to see what Deepseek means and what new nuclear plants can do.

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

my colleague matt succinctly sums up how democrats have sided with comity over fire when it comes to trump’s pick to run the energy department cc @heatmap.news heatmap.news/politics/wri...

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3 Takeaways From Chris Wright’s Confirmation Hearing

Trump’s pick for Energy Secretary had an easy go of it.

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 10/11/2024

Hey y'all. If you're a new Energy Twitter ex pat, please follow the #EnergySky feed here bsky.app/profile/did:... And tag your posts with either the feed name or the emoji pair 🔌💡 and your post will show up in the feed. Please repost...

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Ken Sands @kensands.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Wow. Cross-regional planning is working? MISO's and SPP's novel approach to joint planning focused on backbone projects they say will unlock 28 GW of capacity and reduce curtailments in a highly congested region. 🔌💡

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