Ben Xue

Building @basepowerco | alum of @voltusinc @humanagencyorg @venture4america & @columbia tweets about product, climate, and direct democracy

[Ben Xue @ben_xue]

Get your batteries, get your batteries!

[Base Power @basepowerco]

Born in Austin. Built in Austin. Now serving Austin.

In partnership with Austin Energy, Base is now bringing whole-home backup to our hometown for a fraction of the cost.

See if your home qualifies at https://t.co/ZXATDMaoJl

[Liz Hoffman @lizrhoffman]

The message discipline of this man on the street talking about private equity owning homes

[Ben Xue @ben_xue]

Ironic that I get a power outage just before I’m about to join a company that provides backup for outages

[Ben Xue @ben_xue]

This is the way

[Ben Xue @ben_xue]

@nikitabier can you ship a highlights feature for articles so we can save or retweet our favorite snippets?

[Ben Xue @ben_xue]

@haibintx @timothyhade Right that too! DR has both 24/7 dispatch expectations as well as long event duration expectations that would exceed a 4-hour battery at 100% state of charge.

Now 2 batteries…

[Ben Xue @ben_xue]

Book Gollum would’ve been a great lawyer

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Andy Serkis recording The Lord of the Rings audiobook, casually shifting into pure unhinged brilliance about 25 seconds in.

[Ben Xue @ben_xue]

It’s not modern, but it’s familiar. When you have over 150m+ people who use your services and the average user doesn’t use a computer daily, familiarity and ease of use are key.

They did great.

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

@oscarle_x We’re legally required by Congress to use this design aesthetic

Appreciate the feedback!

[Ben Xue @ben_xue]

@shl @oscarle_x Y’all did great. New version displays more yet focuses attention better

[Ben Xue @ben_xue]

Deploy DERs

[Tim Latimer @TimMLatimer]

The biggest threat to American global competitiveness, and it does not matter if your priorities are climate change, affordability, the AI race, national security or all of the above, is our country’s complete inability to build and upgrade transmission at any meaningful scale.

[Doug Lewin @douglewinenergy]

From @BerkleyLab, one of the most useful decks you’ll see this year. Retail electricity prices don’t rise or fall for a single reason.

What pushes them up: natural gas price spikes, extreme weather and wildfire recovery, and the cost of hardening aging grid infrastructure.

What pulls them down: market-based wind and solar, which in some states lowered retail prices by roughly 0.5¢/kWh and load growth

👉 Much more context in the link in the comments.

[Ben Xue @ben_xue]

Already in character

[Variety @Variety]

Jeremy Strong on his approach to playing Mark Zuckerberg in "The Social Reckoning"

[Ben Xue @ben_xue]

voice dictation also not great

[Michi @NekoMichiUBC]

If you're making more typos in iOS lately, you're not going crazy - it's a bug in iOS that causes the keyboard to randomly insert the wrong letter instead of what you typed.

[Ben Xue @ben_xue]

@EigenGender Finished preparing breakfast. Ate breakfast while watching 15 minutes of CBS Sunday morning with my family. Switched over to a video of Novak djokovic as a 6 year old playing tennis. Now getting the workday started.

[Ben Xue @ben_xue]

I’m going to be at DERVOS with Voltus! Come say hi and let’s talk VPPs, NYISO DER Model, utility data access, the whole shabang

[Ben Xue @ben_xue]

So freakin cool.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

SpaceX has released a couple new videos of its Starship rocket successfully landing on target in the ocean yesterday. Unreal shots.

[Ben Xue @ben_xue]

@xiaowang1984 @RKonidena ELRP was dispatched 7 times for mandatory events this summer for 60 & 120 minute lead-time demand response resources. Should definitely be a bigger part of the asset mix

[Ben Xue @ben_xue]

"Death by a million pdfs" https://t.co/RyZVXX5Br2

[Ben Xue @ben_xue]

we have the receipts! In ComEd alone over 90% of residential ratepayers are blocked from VPP participation because of data barriers.

Widespread expansion of utility data access may be the #1 biggest boon for addressing the capacity shortfall in these coming years

[Mission:data @mission_data]

Today, @voltusinc and Mission:data filed a complaint against PJM at FERC for data barriers that are unjust, unreasonable and discriminatory.

To sum up: PJM requires smart meter data, but utilities do not provide it.

This complaint has the receipts!

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