Rob Klee

Former Commissioner of Connecticut's Department of Energy & Environmental Protection. Now Lecturer @YaleFES and @YaleLawSch. Tweets are all mine.

[ISO New England @isonewengland]

Wind, solar, and battery storage dominate new resource proposals in the ISO New England Interconnection Request Queue. Resources proposed as of January totaled 31,840 MW. Learn more: https://t.co/Mj6nFF8oVx

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today @POTUS and @VP announced the American Climate Corps — an initiative to train young people for careers that help tackle climate change.

This is an important step forward, and wouldn't be possible without the organizing efforts of young people across the country.

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

Every "but what about...?" argument against human-caused climate change is already covered by @skepticscience's handy list; so why won't it convince people? Because it's never been about science or facts. It's solution aversion so any excuse that justifies that position will do.

[Akshat Rathi @AkshatRathi]

Indeed. We are not as addicted to fossil fuels as some might want you to think. https://t.co/blwbjLAPRp

[Michael Gerrard @MichaelGerrard]

FEMA and Corps of Engineers are focusing on centralized fossil rather than distributed solar + batteries in rebuilding Puerto Rico's fragile grid -- wrong move from climate and environmental justice perspectives, writes @RuthSantiagopr in Sabin Center guest blog.

[EnergyAbe @AbeEnergy]

Best quote in government goes to Commissioner Clements in her statement on interconnection: "Staff has been working nights and weekends for months, their families and friends have been subjected to interconnection policy discussions at the dinner table, their toddlers know...

[Chris Vernon @clv101]

Here's the best, accessable, review of AMOC science you're likely to see this week:

[E&E News @EENewsUpdates]

FERC Chevron doctrine fight arrives at Supreme Court https://t.co/3KjnGnTrKJ

[Ari Peskoe @AriPeskoe]

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FERC will release new standards for utility and RTO generator interconnection processes.

A tiny bit of background:

[Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy @YaleCELP]

What are the key findings of the 2023 #GlobalCommons Stewardship Index?
1) Rich countries bear major responsibilities for domestic and international spillover impacts on the Global Commons. 
https://t.co/oB05qg8Ufp

[Nathan de Arriba-Sellier  (now on 🦋) @ArribaSellier]

Reminder: the whole anti-ESG campaign has been created and pushed by fossil fuel interest groups such as the American Petroleum Institute https://t.co/koxFrve4Jx

[Robbie Orvis @robbieorvis]

A great thread on work led by @MadedduSilvia that we reference A LOT about the electrification potential in the industry sector. Spoiler alert: nearly all industrial heat demand can be electrified.

[Noah Kaufman @noahqk]

so many of the policy-relevant journal articles by economists on climate are not in econ journals

[Canary Media @CanaryMediaInc]

.@T4America's analysis of last year’s awards found that the amount of funding being sought for zero-emissions bus projects well exceeded the amount of funding available, with only 33 percent of applications receiving grants. https://t.co/UtLfJcqbaW

[Dr. Robert Rohde @RARohde]

Time for a bit of climate hope.

Solar power is the fastest growing energy technology in history, and wind is not far behind.

This graph shows how rapidly different energy technologies expanded after reaching their first exajoule of energy production, on a logarithmic scale.

[Michael Gerrard @MichaelGerrard]

This report from New Orleans is consistent with my recent article about the inadequacies of US laws in protecting chemical and waste management facilities from extreme weather events worsened by climate change. https://t.co/IyTPYftyNr

[Jesse D. Jenkins @JesseJenkins]

Is the impact of wildfire smoke persistent enough to affect agricultural yields too? Have we seen data on that yet from, say, California Central Valley?

[Robbie Orvis @robbieorvis]

Hey media - every single article you write about the wildfire smoke should mention the role of climate change in making the fires worse and causing this. See @capitalweather for how to appropriately discuss this.