Jackson Parthasarathy

Associate at Grid United. working in energy markets, renewables, and decarbonization broadly!

[Jackson Parthasarathy @jacksonpart34]

@CanaryMediaInc Think what you will about the future of H2, but the rules not being loose (allowing 🔵 or other) is more important than them demanding green imo. H2 could flop or be huge, but the (potentially huge) environmental downside is limited by these rules.

[Jackson Parthasarathy @jacksonpart34]

@ClaireWayner @DustinMulvaney One reason is that Amory (the soft path) Lovins teaches classes at Stanford

[Jackson Parthasarathy @jacksonpart34]

@duncancampbell @TimMLatimer There is no standard or enforced reliability metric. RTO’s and Utilities define their own standard, which is usually LoLE = 0.1, but this is completely arbitrary. It’s worked so far - but we need to be smarter about ELCCs and go beyond LoLE = 0.1 as the gen mix -> more renewable.

[Houston Chronicle @HoustonChron]

Grid United partners with Hitachi Energy to build power lines connecting national grids https://t.co/HrjBWWx89X

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

This is additionality:
"Energy firm secures $588m to build huge Texas solar farm for Microsoft"

This is not:
"AWS just dropped $650 million on a data center built next to a 2.5 gigawatt nuclear power station"

[Jackson Parthasarathy @jacksonpart34]

@Astoll15 Most complex machine ever built? You clearly haven’t built any ikea furniture recently

[Jackson Parthasarathy @jacksonpart34]

@DrChrisClack @MichaelEWebber There are many parts of Texas including El Paso, Amarillo and East Texas which are in WECC, SPP, and MISO, respectively. You don’t need to actually leave Texas to connect the grid

[Jackson Parthasarathy @jacksonpart34]

@douglewinenergy @DrChrisClack @joshdr83 @MichaelEWebber @RobGramlichDC Yes, the right model doesn’t quite exist, but even the current ones that don’t capture the full stack of interregional benefits (decreased LOLe, extreme weather, consumer savings because of gen diversity, more renewables) still show a massive amount of benefits.

[Jackson Parthasarathy @jacksonpart34]

@BaseballQuotes1 Scott Rolen

[Ari Peskoe @AriPeskoe]

The US is not building enough interregional transmission because utility regulation provides the wrong incentives.

Utilities dominate under the status quo and block attempts at changing the rules.

We need FERC or Congress to press forward.

[Jackson Parthasarathy @jacksonpart34]

@duncancampbell Texas’ policy doesn’t deserve much credit, but Texas’ industry does!

We lucked into world class gas, wind, and solar which is why we have cheap(ish) electricity. Energy only market keeps prices lower, but we’re also playing dice with reliability every summer/winter.

[Jackson Parthasarathy @jacksonpart34]

@JesseJenkins @TimMLatimer @fervoenergy The year is 2067 and Space Geothermal + Space Solar now reach 12% of US energy mix.

With the support of the Chalamet administration - Fervo’s Dyson sphere test project comes in 25% under estimated cost paving the way for…

[Jackson Parthasarathy @jacksonpart34]

@MichaelEWebber @MeganSever4 Ordered! Can’t wait to read

[Congressman Greg Casar @RepCasar]

We just introduced the #ConnectTheGrid Act to connect Texas to neighboring electric grids & prevent mass power outages during winter storms & heat waves. 💡

I’m grateful for these Members of Congress & organizations who are supporting our bill!

🧵👇🏽

[Jackson Parthasarathy @jacksonpart34]

@SimonMahan Pivot tables are the easiest way. My personal favorite is to do =unique(Time, Genreator) which will give you a clean list (might need a Sort on top of unique) and then do a Index Match to pull in the relevant data from the OG table

[Jackson Parthasarathy @jacksonpart34]

@jacob_mays @ElectricCat8 @xiaowang1984 @DrewSmithee Some industry models show value

[Grid Status @grid_status]

Solar production broke 16 GW for the first time ever in Texas today!

A huge jump of ~10% compared to the previous all-time record in ERCOT.

More records: https://t.co/aK8TLD20NC

[Jackson Parthasarathy @jacksonpart34]

@JamesHewettDC @Erb_Tom10 @DanielPalken @anaisborja The fellowship of the Grid. Need to destroy the archaic “evil” that is current energy and permitting policy by taking it up Capitol Hill (Mt. Doom) and casting it into the fire (statute)

[Jackson Parthasarathy @jacksonpart34]

@drvolts He has a point though. Most people aren’t scientists (let alone climate scientists) and also don’t care about the earth’s “balance”. Some scientists do a great job of this, but lots need to do a better job relating climate change to its direct affects on people.

[Jackson Parthasarathy @jacksonpart34]

If we don’t limit global warming then people from Florida will have to move to other state…. Is that what you want?