Ryan Pollock

Executive Director & Secretary-Treasurer of the Texas State Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO

[Institute for Energy Research @IERenergy]

It's difficult to pin New Jersey's high electricity prices on AI and data centers.

The Garden State is not suffering from an uncontrolled statewide demand surge. It is a high-cost state with declining electricity sales, expensive RPS compliance, aggressive net-metering exposure, growing distributed-solar cost shifting, and a long list of retired dispatchable power plants.

Policymakers are blaming the wrong target.

https://t.co/ePoMGc4iyn

[James Dickey @jamesdickey]

ERCOT's board votes today on new rules: data centers must ride through grid disturbances or risk getting cut off.

Other grid operators are already copying Texas' language before it's even final.

Why ride-through just became the make-or-break test for every serious site:

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[lisasorg @lisasorg]

https://t.co/rAMeQpdZ0l

[lisasorg @lisasorg]

Good, bad and ugly: Senate Bill 730 would rein in data centers but could liberate Duke Energy and fossil fuel companies from pesky oversight. It goes to the House floor today at 1030ish

[Texas AFL-CIO @TexasAFLCIO]

Ahead of the Finals, we’re setting a friendly wager against the @NYSAFLCIO. GO SPURS GO! 🩵🩷🧡

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

This is great.

[Jay Inslee @JayInslee]

Hundreds of turbines delivering 3.5 GW of electricity to 3 million people.

Clean energy is unstoppable. https://t.co/zy93PkgkkJ

[Ryan Pollock @TexasBCTC]

This is fantastic news!

[Joshua Siegel @SiegelScribe]

SCOOP: House plans vote on bipartisan geothermal energy permitting package next week upon return from recess. Add it to the obligatory “geothermal is so hot right now” file https://t.co/8IfRoRrFKg

[Joshua Siegel @SiegelScribe]

SCOOP: House plans vote on bipartisan geothermal energy permitting package next week upon return from recess. Add it to the obligatory “geothermal is so hot right now” file https://t.co/8IfRoRrFKg

[Ryan Pollock @TexasBCTC]

@ts_fisher @SiegelScribe @AlexCKaufman womp womp

[Joshua Siegel @SiegelScribe]

The House just passed this geothermal package by voice vote 🚨. "At a time of extreme political polarization, this package shows that Congress can still come together on commonsense solutions to better the lives of the American people,” @RepAOC told me

[Ryan Pollock @TexasBCTC]

@joshdr83 @JDowning37 Yeah, I was going to say that battery has to be a significant factor here.

[Andrew Lamparski @andrewlamparski]

A former educator at Dobie MS in Austin gets emotional while discussing the impacts of state interventions and funding challenges at a committee hearing on public education.

“You cannot defund a system, point to the damage and call the solution a takeover.”

@cbsaustin

[Ryan Pollock @TexasBCTC]

@AaronRegunberg @fredstaffordcs Tom Steyer is in third place behind two terrible candidates.

[Ryan Pollock @TexasBCTC]

@AaronRegunberg @fredstaffordcs It means creating rather than destroying.

Building our way out of this rather pretending that working people will accept an even lower quality of life.

[Ryan Pollock @TexasBCTC]

@AaronRegunberg @fredstaffordcs Instead of creating allies, they insist on creating enemies. There is only one way that they're going to achieve their goals as soon as possible and it requires a coalition with those that they've been all too quick to antagonize.