Dave Erickson

unrepentant geek.

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@atrupar Trump will not sign it

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@RepHuffman Congressman what direct action are you taken to stop this illegal, corrupt, authoritarian takeover of the US government?

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@SenAlexPadilla What are you doing to stop this, Senator?

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@SenAdamSchiff You need to take direct action to stop Musk and his teenage hackers from doing any more damage.

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@SenAdamSchiff What are you doing to stop this, like right now, Senator? It's outrageous!

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@SenatorShaheen What are you and your Democratic colleagues doing to stop this.?

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@SenSchumer What are you actually doing to resist this? Anything? You need to stop it!

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@duncancampbell Congrats!

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@ArmandDoma Isn't it because more manufacturers chose to ship their manufacturing overseas because of cheaper labor?

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@ProjectLincoln Trump is in office to serve himself

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@jhensonpogue Excellent conversation. Kudos to you and Ezra for unpacking this stuff and explaining it so well. Thank you.

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Geez, what a crazy idea! What thinkest thou, @duncancampbell @JigarShahDC anyone? Does this reflect the "conventional wisdom? 😬

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RFK Jr Proposed Giving Electric Companies the Power to Turn Off Everyone’s Heat, Hot Water

In one example, Trump’s HHS nominee welcomed using smart grid signals to turn off electronic toothbrushes https://t.co/8RPcJg13Zu

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@JigarShahDC @QuincyEdmundLee @duncancampbell Great. I'll consider that a success when you get AO Smith, Fujitsu, Nest/Google, Honeywell, Ecobee, Samsung, Tesla, GM, Ford, etc. etc. etc to sign on as well. I would suspect that you would also need NIST, IEEE, IEC to sign on as well if you want standards. I wish them well!

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@theEnergyMads @JigarShahDC @QuincyEdmundLee @duncancampbell 10% is an average across all load conditions. I did a very informal load study at a small distribution utility and found that under peak load conditions, depending on the subject losses could be closer to 20%

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@JigarShahDC @QuincyEdmundLee @duncancampbell Utilities would be happy to engage people like Virtual Peaker or others if the didn't have to pay for the access to every widget. Tesla won't even deal with you if you're a small utility (personal experience)

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@theEnergyMads @JigarShahDC @QuincyEdmundLee @duncancampbell From a procurement standpoint yes. The less the loss, the less you need to procure to serve the load. Loss is waste.

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@theEnergyMads @JigarShahDC @QuincyEdmundLee @duncancampbell First cut is peak demand on the bulk system, i.e., high wholesale price. Second cut is on peak demand at substation level affecting losses. After that, feeder level based on voltage management?

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@crampell Hi Catherine. It would be great if you could do a column on how energy prices actually work. I.e. that energy is fungible. It goes where the highest price is on the global market. Producers have no incentive to randomly increase production beyond what the markets demand. Thanks