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@JaneAFlegal It presumes that electric affordability hasn’t always been a priority; if there were solutions that didn’t have massive political downsides they’d have been done already

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@MattZeitlin Kinda surprised “Vegan ecoterrorists threaten to release lone star ticks nationwide to destroy the cattle industry and only our Manly Texan Hero can stop them” hasn’t been the premise for a low budget conservative action thriller yet. Goofy rainbow six

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@xiaowang1984 red state resident professor telling NE not to build gas pipelines is such a straw man of “academic back seat driving with the confidence they will never face consequences for poor decisions” yet here he is

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@hank_enjoyer @fredstaffordcs That ruined my day, so sorry you feel that way

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@hank_enjoyer @fredstaffordcs Ah yes, Our noble regulatory guys who are deep in the weeds due to their agency experience vs. their dastardly lobbyists enriching themselves through revolving door politics. Are you thirteen?

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@fredstaffordcs Who is the sucker; the trump admin or energy twitter

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@fredstaffordcs Long time Republican lobbyist for power market deregulation with zero experience managing utility operations sounds more like the resume of the guy that strips BPA for parts to sell to the highest bidder, not a progressive energy twitter darling

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@mattyglesias Neither really work because people don’t actually want to face price signals (direct or via vpp) that granular. It’s the equivalent of airlines charging passengers by the pound, with the price per pound rising exponentially as the plane gets closer to capacity

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@clawrence @EIAgov What would batteries show up as on this chart? Small negative percentage? Highlights that a good chunk of the “utilization” problem isn’t a problem at all, but natural result of shifting to a renewable plus storage focused system

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@mattyglesias Everyone wants the parts of the grid they care about to meet modern safety and reliability standards, it’s all the unnecessary and inefficient gold plating going on everywhere else that’s the problem

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@xiaowang1984 @Stphn_Lacey yeah, and even the advanced conductors pitch ignores that putting new lines on 50+ year old towers that will need to be replaced in the next 20 years anyway at 1/3 the cost of a new line might not be that compelling! are there good use cases? absolutely! a panacea? lol no

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@Stphn_Lacey @xiaowang1984 This is less “can a gizmo be useful in some circumstances” and more “GETs is an incoherently defined buzzword applied to gizmos that investors are having trouble getting sufficient buyers for and are now trying to get the gizmos mandated”

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@RobinMillican @xiaowang1984 Is there a list of what electrical equipment qualifies as a GET? If the gear required to take advantage of back-ties during a PSPS counts pretty much everything other than analog fuses is a GET

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@xiaowang1984 @JamesHewettDC GETs just means “capex that is good” with good defined by people who think reconductoring is a novel idea

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@TKavulla @OctopusEnergyUS @teslaenergy @GotRhythmHQ @basepowerco Doesn’t opt in just invite cherry picking of customers with high load factors with 4/6/12CP as the denominator?

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@Matthuber78 @EnergyLawJeff @JaneAFlegal The leap from “regulated entities’ regulatory advocacy aim to maximize regulated returns” to “unregulated entities’ regulatory advocacy aim to maximize nominally unregulated returns” is too much apparently

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@MattZeitlin “I identify as a Panasonic” stickers for powerwalls is an untapped market. Dozens of dollars to be made

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@fredstaffordcs On one hand I’m a little shocked more people don’t have their huckster alarm bells go off with him, but on the other look at who the country picked as president

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@MattZeitlin “Consistency is for suckers, ends justify the means” - pretty much every cost benefit analysis consultant

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@robinsonmeyer This is more a tell that people just don’t wanna talk to him due to bad vibes or something lmao