Austin

statistician in disguise as an energy analyst. mostly here for #energytwitter, #Rstats, and talking up the midwest

[Austin @austinlesh]

yesterday’s Ezra Klein pod on decarbonization/IRA implementation was very good

[Doug Lewin @douglewinenergy]

Texas has now officially broken the all time electricity demand record. Will likely be broken again in an hour & again tomorrow, but for now the number is 80,251MW. No conservation call needed. Wind & solar providing >35% of power at peak. #txlege #txenergy #energytwitter

[Simon Mahan @SimonMahan]

The Southeast blackouts that happened b/c of Winter Storm #Elliott are going to cause a lot of soul searching because we don't have enough renewables to blame the outages on.

Read that again.
#energytwitter

[Ben Inskeep @Ben_Inskeep]

Some of the "non-climate" benefits of climate action are the ones I am most excited about, like being able to open the windows in my home without causing anyone an asthma attack, or being able to stroll through a city without choking on diesel fumes.

[Jesse D. Jenkins @JesseJenkins]

"The Vice President Votes in the affirmative, and the bill, as amended, is passed!" @KamalaHarris just now!!

It's done. The #InflationReductionAct is out of the Senate, clearing the nigh-impossible hurdle that no climate bill has cleared before!!

Historic and history changing.

[Kevin O'Rourke @krorourke]

MISO's board approved 18 new transmission lines today, enabling 53,000 MW of new, low-cost renewable energy projects.

A big milestone, as it's the single largest transmission expansion enabling clean energy in 🇺🇸 history.

But much more still needed.

[Tom Moyer 🇺🇸 @TomMoyerUT]

So yeah - LNG exports *do* matter to US prices.

[ICF @ICF]

Our recent @ACORE study reviewing available transmission capacity across MISO and SPP concludes that current cost allocation methodology places most of the burden on the interconnecting customer to pay, despite regional benefits often provided by upgrades. https://t.co/zaTrJW1Ini

[Austin @austinlesh]

@gspeng Looking at blinds/shades/draperies

[Austin @austinlesh]

okay #energytwitter - does anyone know of any resources on energy efficient window treatments? is there a good way to measure this?

[Chloe Zilliac @ChloeZilliac]

CA hits 100% clean energy for the 1st time let’s gooo!!!!

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

The environmental movement of the last generation was partly organized around stopping things. But to save the planet we are going to have to build things at an unprecedented speed and scale. We need to make it easier, not harder, to build big, planet saving projects.

[Eric Hittinger @ElephantEating]

How many hours are in a year?

[Austin @austinlesh]

the monsters in Monsters Inc. could have dramatically accelerated their transition from screams to laugh energy if a bad dream tax had priced their negative externalities

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

1. A thread on climate hope: There is an extremely important and hope-filled climate paper out in Nature today. It finds that, if all the countries of the world fulfilled their climate commitments, the world would most likely limit climate change to just under 2 degrees C.

[Austin @austinlesh]

Between education and aesthetics there's probably a lot of low hanging fruit here for conversions to urbanism

[YouGov America @YouGovAmerica]

While many experts argue that cities are more energy-efficient than suburban or rural communities, our latest poll finds that most Americans believe the opposite.

75% of Americans believe it's better for the environment if houses are built farther apart.
https://t.co/u6jzWJMUFN

[Austin @austinlesh]

@SimonMahan oh man, I wasn't ready for trivia

1. one of the largest solar projects in the country is under construction in indiana (~1.65 GW)
2. it takes about 50 kWh to brew a barrel of beer
3. at one point overnight on march 28-29 SPP was serving 90% of its load with renewables