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Sam Evans-Brown @samebenergy.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

CC Katie Miller. She's apparently not on Blue Sky...

Sam Evans-Brown @samebenergy.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

"sure sure sure, the bulk of it is a Mambo #5 style riff on how many girlfriends I have... like, we've got to sell records here... but the song is really about how the most important person in my life is my auntie."

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Sam Evans-Brown @samebenergy.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

"you know what would be a bop? a song about bringing girl friends to meet my aunt."

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Sam Evans-Brown @samebenergy.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

My Maine worry (yuck yuck yuck) is will we be able to get these projects built in a timely fashion. Especially given the history here... law.justia.com/cases/federa...

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Sam Evans-Brown @samebenergy.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Fortunately @isonewengland is on it, and their first move to solve this problem is a competitive solicitation for transmission out of Maine under FERC 1920. www.iso-ne.com/static-asset...

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Sam Evans-Brown @samebenergy.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

What's happening? It's a cold, sunny day, which means the 1600ish MW of solar that Maine has installed is cranking. And now, as contractually required, the new NECEC line is cranking power into Maine.

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Sam Evans-Brown @samebenergy.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Oh New England. So embarrassing. We can't take you anywhere

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Sam Evans-Brown @samebenergy.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Hey Bluesky! If anybody here gives a hoot about NH continuing to make progress on decarbonization, consider supporting CENH today! We're the only outfit that is doing real things, in my humble opinion.

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Sam Evans-Brown @samebenergy.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

We do need to think seriously about what new "clean firm" resources we can build, but the truth is that any new generation is likely to increase our bills. At every juncture, doing more with what we have now is the economically optimal move. www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...

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Sam Evans-Brown @samebenergy.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

And in 2025, building ANYTHING new is expensive, where as there remains an enormous amount of low-hanging efficiency measures that haven't been pursued in Quebec, because their rates are so low as to make the payback for the consumer difficult to justify. www.theenergymix.com/hydro%E2%80%...

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Sam Evans-Brown @samebenergy.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Bravo, @hydroquebec.com! I've been observing this company's moves for over a decade now and I've been waiting for this particular move for that entire time.

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Sam Evans-Brown @samebenergy.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I've lived in NH's capital for 15 years, and I've never seen a protest this big.

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Sam Evans-Brown @samebenergy.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

at first i was like wow @axios.com is really leaning into click bait now i'm building a bunker

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Sam Evans-Brown @samebenergy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

This data is a preview of a report we commissioned with Ski New Hampshire that is yet to be released... sneak peak! The impact of falling behind in EV infrastructure is likely to be more than a billion dollars in lost revenue to our tourism economy w/ North Country hardest hit.

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Sam Evans-Brown @samebenergy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Sure, other states will adopt EVs faster than NH, but we are not on an island! Those states send huge numbers of tourists to NH!

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Sam Evans-Brown @samebenergy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

New Hampshire is dead last in New England for number of public charging stations. DFL. For a small state, that is surrounded by states that will be first-movers on EV adoption this is a big problem. 3 million EVs expected to be on the road by 2033, New England wide!

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Sam Evans-Brown @samebenergy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Getting a live version of the @volts.wtf episode about adoption readiness levels at the Loan Programs office #Deploy24 conference!

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Sam Evans-Brown @samebenergy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

The coming resource adequacy problem, witha glut of variable renewables, is a huge issue in search of a solution. The coming surge of EV sales, without managed charging, is a problem in of itself! It's a match made in heaven! liftoff.energy.gov/vpp/

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Sam Evans-Brown @samebenergy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Not every ev is 9000 pounds, remember

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Sam Evans-Brown @samebenergy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

However, the PUC failed to address the central problem in the NEM program currently: certainty. As it stands, NEM simply ENDS in 2040. What comes after? No one knows. This is a MASSIVE problem if you're trying to get a loan to build a something. The PUC, confronted with that evidence said: "meh"

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Sam Evans-Brown @samebenergy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

"What is the status quo?" you ask. Well it's not full 1:1 net metering: we did away with that back in 2017. For large "community" scale renewables, it's just the default service rate.

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Sam Evans-Brown @samebenergy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Folks, my first "breaking news" blue sky post! Today the NH PUC issued an order in the latest net metering docket in the Granite State. The order did.... nothing. It kept the status quo in place.

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Sam Evans-Brown @samebenergy.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Yikes. NH policymakers should really be asking how it is that our electricity rates are rising so fast if "it's because of renewables"? Cuz the only state in New England that kept energy rate increases below CPU was ... Vermont.

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