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
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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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
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
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
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
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
@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.
@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.