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Josh T. Smith

@smithtjosh.bsky.social
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Prosperity is energy intensive. Energy Policy Lead at the Abundance Institute.

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Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Yes--I think one of the open questions is how we get the NEC to update accordingly. The UL1741 certification will be hard (impossible?) to get. However, there are already inverters that prevent backfeeding, as I understand. Pearce's study has a mention of these.
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Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Rep. Ray Ward is building a runway for balcony solar in the US. May interest @henrihorn.bsky.social @balkon.solar and @sbamueller.com I would love to talk to anyone about the effort and how to help set up the rules for success in Utah and the country!
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Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
#balconysolar is coming to Utah: poweringspaceshipearth.substack.com/p/balcony-so...
poweringspaceshipearth.substack.com
Balcony solar is coming to Utah
An update on bringing plug-in solar to America
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Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Carl has a bunch of points that I missed in what I wrote last year: poweringspaceshipearth.substack.com/p/shout-it-f...
poweringspaceshipearth.substack.com
Shout it from the balconies
A European innovation the US fumbled in 2011
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Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
open.substack.com/pub/powering...
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Our Christmas lights use more electricity than 70 countries
Energy abundance means more lights and more holiday cheer
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Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
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Oliver Kerr🔸 @oliverkerr.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
It was really fun speaking with @tnorris.bsky.social about interconnection queues in the US. Why is it that it takes *so* much longer to get new energy capacity online in some parts of the country? What can be done about it? Tyler is truly the #1 expert so well worth a listen! #energysky
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Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/the-deep-a...
conspicuouscognition.com
The deep and unavoidable roots of political bias
Your political worldview is inevitably simplistic, selective, and distorted.
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Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
As good a time as any to share our starter pack. go.bsky.app/AGWTiKD
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Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Jonathan Koomey and team have a nice discussion of the limits of the 1MW ~ 1000 homes in this paper. TLDR: Mostly ok, but cautions apply to the 1MW ~ 1000 homes around the boundaries. www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/...
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Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Cities are a fairly good example for folks. But I worry about the shift from industrial/commercial into residential. Isn't that deceptive? Seems like comparing apples and oranges. It's like comparing professional sports with recreation leagues.
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Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Yeah--not a good market in that scenario. Lots of market power obvious if RE is excluded from capacity mechanisms.
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Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Clearly a problem when Gov. Shapiro had to ask special favors from the RTO to reconnect TMI.
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Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
It seems like a better place to end up would be rethinking much more of how RTOs operate their markets. ERIS as the focus with an ORDC-style price adder seems better to me? Time for a 3rd generation of capacity markets and FERC straightening out the economics behind the scene.
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Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
ERCOT is the only one getting enery-only right. open.substack.com/pub/powering...
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Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The call is coming from inside the house on energy challenges and many others. open.substack.com/pub/powering...
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The call is coming from inside the house
Whatever the problem, building more and faster is a part of the solution
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