Daniel Palken

Energy and permitting at Arnold Ventures. Opinions my own.

[CSIS Energy Program @CSISEnergy]

Whose Grid Is It Anyway? Join us online this Friday at 3:00 PM for a conversation on competing visions of the U.S. power grid and its policy future with @ts_fisher and @DanielPalken, moderated by @JosephMajkut, Director of the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program.

[Noah Kaufman @noahqk]

Try to predict one thing like future energy demand and no one will take you seriously. That’s unknowable.
But combine it with predictions of dozens of other things and you are in business. That’s a model.

[Daniel Palken @DanielPalken]

@xiaowang1984 @catpoopburglar @ppavnr Summer Storm Nowitski was an early harbinger of Texas’s ability to put up strong numbers in June

[Daniel Palken @DanielPalken]

Alright, serious question here in honor of the Lakers playing in Houston tonight.

Who did it better:

ERCOT or LeBron?

[Shanu Mathew @ShanuMathew93]

For the people in the back: pretty much every LeBron playoff stat looks like this chart.

If it were purely longevity, you’d see his trajectory slope downward over time as efficiency naturally declines while minutes pile up. Instead, he stays on trend longer than anyone else. That’s SUSTAINED EXCELLENCE.

We’ve seen every other athletes decline, the worst version of LeBron has looked like prime hall of famers or all stars from years past.

True longevity merchants would have plenty of other players clustered nearby yet there’s none.

LeBron has combined elite skill maintenance with the durability and production needed for repeated deep playoff runs - reminder, that’s the entire point.

No one else has given their team a better shot to win for this long at this level. Lebron is in a league of his own.

[Daniel Palken @DanielPalken]

@AndreasenJack Always viewed him as overrated in the power forward role

[Noah Kaufman @noahqk]

For scientists, it should go without saying that the case for or against GWP-20 should rest on the merits of the metric, not on whether we like the policy outcomes it produces.
https://t.co/y9dEik292u

[Ben Schifman @BenSchifman]

One way you know the interconnection process is broken?

Re-connecting a power plant that was online as recently as 2019 takes until... 2031.

[Dashboard American @NiyerEnergy]

China vs US grid thread. Just to calibrate things.

To get things started - China's total electricity demand grew faster than the rest of the world combined (2024).

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[Daniel Palken @DanielPalken]

I’ll take “missing the plot” for $200, Alex

[Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser]

Wait is this you @JesseJenkins?

Are you working with "hyperscalers?" https://t.co/AinKgFPPKa

[Daniel Palken @DanielPalken]

only Supercharger station within 40 miles on a snowy drive through rural Vermont. Customer service said these events are random and there’s nothing they can do to override or even predict them. Honestly, what a horrifying consumer product!

[Daniel Palken @DanielPalken]

Learned about a new @Tesla feature today where they randomly take chargers off their network for non-Tesla owners. Happened to us first at the Level 2 charger that we rely on at our apartment (we thought there was something wrong with the app) and now (higher stakes) at the…

[Rob Gramlich @RobGramlichDC]

Hey, want to do electricity policy on the hill for a year? This will be a great experience. Apply by January 9 to IEEE's new Congressional Electric Grid Fellowship program! https://t.co/652X5tlS2j

[Travis Fisher @ts_fisher]

New album dropping, produced by me and @DanielPalken

Less permission, more ambition, let the markets get to work
If liberty’s the rhythm, then the red tape is the jerk

[Charlie Anderson @EconCharlie]

Great conversation on bipartisan permitting reform — what should be in it and its prospects — including @Arnold_Ventures very own @DanielPalken. Give it a listen! https://t.co/2mRnUmZxbI

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

Energy costs have tracked inflation historically. That stability is now at risk after scores of projects across every source were cancelled over past decade due to permitting. Without reform, we will not have affordable & reliable energy. A partial list of projects affected:
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[Arnold Ventures @Arnold_Ventures]

🚨 New podcast drop: Our Director of Infrastructure for Energy & Permitting @DanielPalken joins Right of Way to unpack the 3 Ps of transmission — planning, permitting, and paying — and why reforming how we build is key to unlocking America’s energy future. Read the insights + listen to the interview: https://t.co/YXp1mG0SVC

[Thomas Hochman @ThomasHochman]

🚨 New Right of Way:

We are, as they say, so back. Episode 3 with grid guru @DanielPalken is live!

This one is all about transmission: the basics, bottlenecks to buildout, and a deep dive into past reform efforts & why they came up short.

[Daniel Palken @DanielPalken]

“The peak in the summer of course is in the afternoon at the peak heat when air conditioning load is at its highest. Solar energy is very well suited to help support that. Energy storage resource is very well positioned to help during the evening ramps…

[Daniel Palken @DanielPalken]

“A little over 9,000 megawatts of new energy coming online, new supply. The bulk of that is in the solar and energy storage categories, overall 9,000 megawatts between the two. Those are extremely helpful during the summer seasons…

[Daniel Palken @DanielPalken]

@xiaowang1984 So if you're curious I think the general answer (for arbitrary CoPs of the 2 heat pumps C_W and C_A) is (C_A*C_W - C_A + C_W)/(2*C_W-1)

[Daniel Palken @DanielPalken]

@xiaowang1984 I see, now I understand what you were asking. That's the same answer as mine if you plug in P_A/P_W = (C_W-1)/C_W (and set C_W = C_A = 3), which is the power ratio you get if you are running the heat pump enough to replenish the heat taken out of the air by the hpwh.