Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Yes--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. 010
Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Rep. 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! 361
Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 10/02/2025#balconysolar is coming to Utah: poweringspaceshipearth.substack.com/p/balcony-so...poweringspaceshipearth.substack.comBalcony solar is coming to UtahAn update on bringing plug-in solar to America 130
Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Carl has a bunch of points that I missed in what I wrote last year: poweringspaceshipearth.substack.com/p/shout-it-f...poweringspaceshipearth.substack.comShout it from the balconiesA European innovation the US fumbled in 2011 020
Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 24/12/2024 open.substack.com/pub/powering...open.substack.comOur Christmas lights use more electricity than 70 countriesEnergy abundance means more lights and more holiday cheer 020
Reposted by Josh T. SmithOliver Kerr🔸 @oliverkerr.bsky.social · 10/12/2024It 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 1103
Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 06/12/2024www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/the-deep-a...conspicuouscognition.comThe deep and unavoidable roots of political biasYour political worldview is inevitably simplistic, selective, and distorted. 000
Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 26/11/2024As good a time as any to share our starter pack. go.bsky.app/AGWTiKD 051
Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Jonathan 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/... 010
Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Cities 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. 120
Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Yeah--not a good market in that scenario. Lots of market power obvious if RE is excluded from capacity mechanisms. 100
Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Clearly a problem when Gov. Shapiro had to ask special favors from the RTO to reconnect TMI. 000
Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 20/11/2024It 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. 210
Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 20/11/2024ERCOT is the only one getting enery-only right. open.substack.com/pub/powering... 153
Josh T. Smith @smithtjosh.bsky.social · 18/11/2024The call is coming from inside the house on energy challenges and many others. open.substack.com/pub/powering...open.substack.comThe call is coming from inside the houseWhatever the problem, building more and faster is a part of the solution 020