Scott Elias

Policy & Market Development @CleanCapital_. Energy nerd. Political junkie. Making American energy cleaner, faster. @SEIA & @Energy_Leaders alum. Views = my own.

[Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer]

I feel like I am going crazy. The Q will not be getting four Republican senators next year — it will be getting 10 R senators, because Trump will veto any permitting measure that can get all 56 Ds. (And of course, any bill that can get 56 Ds won’t get 10 Rs.)

[jae holzman @jaeporeon]

Happy Saturday, fellow energy nerds!

We just got a lot of last minute changes to the bipartisan permitting deal and @heatmap_news is here to break it all down.

w/ @robinsonmeyer ☺️⚡️

https://t.co/YLH6m6q5Tn

[jae holzman @jaeporeon]

New: I wrote about the renewable energy Super PAC @ITCoalition_PAC taking a victory lap after appearing to help oust Republicans, including Rep. Victoria Spartz

I also asked about their 2028 plans... @heatmap_news

https://t.co/R6LVudTn3P

[Brandon Presley @BrandonPresley]

"Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it."
-Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

[jae holzman @jaeporeon]

i can’t stress enough how vitally important it is for any discussion of the permitting bill to grapple with what the transmission provisions would mean for decarbonization

https://t.co/2cZJn1sg0S

[Scott Elias @ScottySolar]

@jclark_energy @MoiraRose @jaeporeon You may need to add a new audio feature to PowerBrief on Friday

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

Obama tonight on his Cheesecake Factory line: "They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke. The White House even called the Secretary of the Treasury. This is the man who is in charge of the economy. The person who's supposed to be figuring out how to make your life more affordable. The guy who's supposed to be figuring out how to lower inflation. And reduce interest rates. They told him he should hold a press conference in front of the Cheesecake Factory."

[Micah Parsons @MicahhParsons11]

@NFL @NFLOfficiating let’s just go to flag football if everytime a qb gets touched it’s roughing the passer!

[Kurt Benkert @KurtBenkert]

This crew in the Packers Lions game needs to be investigated and suspended after this game.

[Mitt Romney @MittRomney]

Churchill could have shortened WW2 by years if he had just “done a deal” with Hitler. George Washington could have done a deal to end the American Revolution. Zelenskyy is in good company.

[Mitt Romney @MittRomney]

“we will pay any price….to assure the success and survival of liberty.” Is this still true? Do we prize liberty or do we prize power and purse? No more clear test than the choice between Ukraine and Russia. Abandon Ukraine and we abandon liberty. Eventually even our own.

[Senator Thom Tillis @SenThomTillis]

Beyond irresponsible. What part of enforcing a law passed 86-11 by the Senate does the President and his advisors not understand? It’s unconscionable that this administration is capitulating to a Russian dictator who illegally invaded Ukraine and butchers innocent civilians every single day. If the President wants to actually bring down energy prices, he can do it by solving the Iran problem, not by doing a solid for Vladimir Putin.

https://t.co/ccCakQUTDt

[Alec Ward @aleccward]

USDA just effectively gutted REAP, one of the most popular tools farmers have to cut energy costs.

Iowa Farmers Union’s Matt Russell: walking away from these “win-win-win investments is very disappointing.”

Read here: https://t.co/5O6JymLvmJ

[Jesse D. Jenkins @JesseJenkins]

Another good explanation of why it's either this federal permitting reform bill, or nothing until at least 2029, if ever. It's fine to oppose the bill on merits. But let's dispense with the pretense there's some better deal waiting in January 2027. There is not. If you oppose the bill, you support the status quo for the foreseeable future. Defend and own that position.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

I know Americans can’t be bothered to care much about the international order unless it has direct personal financial consequences, but my god this is shameful for our country. A cost that can’t be measured in dollars.

[Senator John Curtis @SenJohnCurtis]

Seneca warned that Rome’s bloody spectacles corrupted the people who watched them. A civilization erodes when it cultivates an appetite for executions as a form of entertainment.

Secretary Hegseth’s plan to livestream the Fort Hood execution risks feeding that appetite. The victims deserve justice administered with solemnity. Broadcasting a death diminishes us and is not an effective deterrent. I urge him to reconsider.

[Stephen Lacey @Stphn_Lacey]

Over the years, the clean energy industry and environmental groups have drifted further apart. As the industry grew up, it didn’t need to lean on the organizing power of enviros. The split screen reactions of green groups and clean energy to the permitting reform bill illustrate just how far apart these two groups have come.

[Chuck Todd @chucktodd]

Did the Packers make any positive changes from last season’s collapse? How does this front office and coaching staff spend an entire offseason not addressing the O Line? The only improvement from last season to this one appears to be the kicker

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

There is no better example I can think of how Trump isn’t a steward of America or remotely patriotic or even nationalistic. He is simply a partisan of his own ego. This is just gross. He’s trying to suck up to a dictator and adversary by mocking another American president. And, btw, the anonymous functionary running this account will be remembered as a tiny little throne-sniffing weasel.

[Solar and Storage Industry @SEIA]

Two weeks ago, SEIA recapped the major records that solar and storage set in 2026: https://t.co/0D3vAwgUqv

Last week, 3 of them were broken once again.

Solar and storage are breaking records faster than we can keep up... and that's been critical to keeping the lights on.