Madeline Fleisher

Ohio environment/energy lawyer. Clean energy stuff @ and Tweets = my own.

[Madeline Fleisher @CleanEnergyNerd]

Remember how I alluded a few months ago to some personal news related to #energytwitter? Well, here it is: https://t.co/oPROp43sAM. What is it? A guide to switching to clean energy. For the longer explanation, here's a not-so-short thread – bear with me:

[Madeline Fleisher @CleanEnergyNerd]

Check out the Electrify Central Ohio monthly newsletter for updates on how the ⚡ Energy Smart Home Expo ⚡ went, and what's going on with EV 🚗🔌 adoption in Ohio now that the federal tax credits are gone. Signs of hope for clean energy?
https://t.co/gl8u1F4w21

[Madeline Fleisher @CleanEnergyNerd]

Thanks @DanGearino for making it to the Energy Smart Home Expo to tell our story! https://t.co/Gv5KBZbD1R

[Madeline Fleisher @CleanEnergyNerd]

(Remember, we're a scrappy grassroots volunteer group doing our best with AI😊)

[Madeline Fleisher @CleanEnergyNerd]

I don't post that much from my personal account anymore as I'm focusing on Electrify Central Ohio, but here's something fun we put together as part of our #heatpump education effort!

@rewiringamerica

[Madeline Fleisher @CleanEnergyNerd]

Definitely glad to spend time on helping neighbors transition off fossil fuels though https://t.co/h9Y8Fd4HKq instead of doomscrolling....

[Cody Hill @cody_a_hill]

Good advice for most people: You have vanishingly little political influence and every thought you spend on politics will probably come to nothing. Consider building things instead, or at least going for a walk.
H/t @feelthebyrn1

[Madeline Fleisher @CleanEnergyNerd]

@Ben_Inskeep This is when just setting a reasonable carbon price to inform long term planning starts to seem like a great idea...

[Madeline Fleisher @CleanEnergyNerd]

@midwestern_ope Got lost on a cross-country bike trip in Michigan and separated by 50 miles from our group, went into a bookstore to ask for directions, the owner drove us with our bikes to where we needed to be and on the way bought us ice cream and showed off the only roundabout in the county.

[Madeline Fleisher @CleanEnergyNerd]

@girdley Positives of a quiet Midwestern suburb with a reasonably walkable neighborhood: we still get the "kids showing up unannounced." As long as you have enough density I think/hope that will still happen.

[Madeline Fleisher @CleanEnergyNerd]

@jabbauer For sure - but I've definitely seen it as a chicken and egg issue, hard to pressure the EDUs in the PUC world if there's no RTO infrastructure to support DER market participation. If you build it they will come! (Maybe.) (I hope.)

[Madeline Fleisher @CleanEnergyNerd]

Appreciate the perspective @jabbauer - my spider senses tingled based on the proposal for a 24 month implementation timeline in the initial timeline now extending out to 3+ years (depending on @FERC decision timeline of course).

[JB @jabbauer]

@CleanEnergyNerd @pjminterconnect Not much they can do - FERC still hasn’t approved their filing. You can’t implement something you don’t have clear direction on.

They took a really long time responding to the last filing: September 23 - July 24. I bet FERC will ask for one more revision to this October filing

[Madeline Fleisher @CleanEnergyNerd]

Since PJM doesn't have any financial or other material incentive (that I'm aware of) to make this happen, regulatory accountability seems like the only available mechanism.

[Madeline Fleisher @CleanEnergyNerd]

Given that projects always magically expand to take the time allotted, I'm hoping that @FERC and PJM stakeholders will hold @pjminterconnect's feet to the fire in keeping this on track as a priority rather than letting other agenda items suck up needed bandwidth.

[Madeline Fleisher @CleanEnergyNerd]

@AriPeskoe @NRDC @TysonSlocum @Earthjustice anyone else? If consumers are going to invest in electrification then appreciate if those investments don't get left on the sidelines while PJM slow-walks their IT upgrades.....

[Madeline Fleisher @CleanEnergyNerd]

Not sure if #energytwitter is viable anymore....but is anyone else annoyed that @pjminterconnect is trying to put off Order 2222 implementation from 2026 to 2028? As someone who's ready to participate in a DER aggregation any day now, I sure am. https://t.co/igK7pm9AmK

[Madeline Fleisher @CleanEnergyNerd]

BELIEVELAND 🎉

[Madeline Fleisher @CleanEnergyNerd]

I really think I'm the core demographic for @neorsd as an environmental lawyer and parent/spouse of ardent @CleGuardians fans (also a fan myself)!

[NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd]

drip levels this high goat needs a plumber.

[Madeline Fleisher @CleanEnergyNerd]

Looking forward to supporting @DriveEVColumbus at their #NDEW event on behalf of https://t.co/2klXXpUSUd this weekend. If you're considering an EV, let us regale you with tales of all the other ways you can decarbonize your life with electricity!

[Madeline Fleisher @CleanEnergyNerd]

@JesseJenkins And the $2.50 per watt is based on the pre-ITC cost (sorry, left the punchline to the end).

[Madeline Fleisher @CleanEnergyNerd]

@JesseJenkins Thanks! Just the federal tax credit, nothing state/local. It is through a Solar United Neighbors co-op so we are getting the bulk discount. Now I'm curious to get another quote and see if that's the explanation or it's that OH is at the low end of the range....

[Madeline Fleisher @CleanEnergyNerd]

@JesseJenkins The co-op does an RFP for the installer to nail down the terms, panel specs and discount, etc., then the actual installation and contract is at the individual household level. So we pay the full cost then get the ITC (is my understanding, haven't pulled the trigger yet).