Eric Borden

Advocate for smart, data driven clean energy policy. Public policy enthusiast. All opinions are mine.

[Eric Borden @BordenEric]

@PGE4Me is claiming its latest rate case filing "stabilizes bills" and "lowers costs." But it doesn't include billions of dollars in (expected) costs to underground powerlines from 2028-2030.

https://t.co/0fyPqweNNO

[Eric Borden @BordenEric]

@KonstantinKisin Trump is totally belligerent in the first 30 seconds. Not sure you watched any of it.

[Eric Borden @BordenEric]

@MichaelWWara I think it would shock most people to find out California does not have a statewide plan or tools to compare mitigations and comprehensively tackle wildfire risk. Hope they revive it.

[Eric Borden @BordenEric]

California did prescribed burns- the best way to reduce wf consequence- on around 78,000 acres of land in 2023. There are 33 million forest acres in CA + millions brush. How do we get to 1 million acres/year? Why doesn’t the state have a comprehensive plan to mitigate risk?

[Eric Borden @BordenEric]

@Ben_Inskeep So far it seems to be NG and coal to power data centers…but don’t all the big players have clean energy commitments/goals? Or are there some that don’t care?

[Michael Wara @MichaelWWara]

That systemic effect may be the biggest impact from these fires. Recent steps have been stabilizing the FAIR plan population and there have been some very tentative steps back into the California market form admitted lines carriers. This will complicate things.

[Eric Borden @BordenEric]

Smoke sunset from #temecula

[Eric Borden @BordenEric]

@autumntjohnson Motion to compel - even better the threat of it👍

[Eric Borden @BordenEric]

@JesseJenkins The initial 1.3 GW of storage was largely BTM, included massive subsidies, and yet was unseen by CAISO and could not or did not contribute to reliability events. Not a policy to emulate I don’t think.

[Eric Borden @BordenEric]

@cody_a_hill I think the CEC new home Solar mandate is driving costs up bc they can pay the housing developer and have an effective monopoly over who the customer chooses. ironic given Solar bashing of monopoly IOUs. This is a theory based on anecdotal evidence would love to see a study!

[Eric Borden @BordenEric]

@JesseJenkins @RL_Miller @AhmadFaruqui @ASM_Irwin Facts like this don’t seem to go down well in this debate. I think this is in part because IOUs and the PUC have wronged ratepayers in so many unreasonable ways, even when they are telling the truth nobody believes them.

[Eric Borden @BordenEric]

@mcuban @PichyTweets GAO and CRS does reviews of programs all the time. Congress still needs to act on them

[Michael Wara @MichaelWWara]

Are you interested in learning about the maturity of wildfire mitigation across western United States electric utilities? Come to our webinar on May 7 from 12 to 1 where our legal fellow, Eric Macomber will present his new work:

https://t.co/DdHUpqKVWr

[Eric Borden @BordenEric]

@jason_howerton These Russian bots are GOOD

[Eric Borden @BordenEric]

@JesseJenkins Or de couple rate design from solar compensation altogether (buy all sell all). nem 3 certainly took a step in the direction you’re advocating for though.

[Eric Borden @BordenEric]

@DavidPomerantz @SenatorAshby @SenBillDodd @JoshNewmanCA @SusanRubioCA @SenBradfordCA We’re often long on rhetoric, short on action. Keep up the fight 🥊

[Eric Borden @BordenEric]

@drvolts Do them as sarcastically as your heart desires.

[Eric Borden @BordenEric]

@SpaceX wanted everyone to check out this sunset 🚀

[Eric Borden @BordenEric]

@cody_a_hill Add to my list of research papers I want someone else to write: data on performative safety vs actual safety performance

[Eric Borden @BordenEric]

Yikes. “Interim rate relief” means approving costs that have not been deemed just and reasonable and having ratepayers pay them, subject to refund. Not sure how it’s legal frankly. https://t.co/2iDeGKZOFW