Kenneth Colburn

[Kenneth Colburn @kacolburn]

@drvolts @OctopusEnergy I hope Octopus will also operate in the parts of the US served by “organized markets” rather than vertically integrated utilities. Please ask/push in that direction!

[Kenneth Colburn @kacolburn]

@SeanCasten Bingo, Sean. Grade A executives hire Grade A executives. Grade B executives hire Grade C executives.

[Kenneth Colburn @kacolburn]

@DMoKreis What?? Say it ain’t so!

[Kenneth Colburn @kacolburn]

@samstein @drvolts Weird.

[Jesse Peltan @JessePeltan]

Please stop equating batteries with wind and solar.

Batteries are just as useful for smoothing out variable demand as they are for variable supply.

Colocating batteries with variable demands improves utilization for all generators, nuclear, gas, and coal included.

Smoothing out demand lowers transmission and distribution costs by increasing the amount of energy that can be transmitted over a given amount of capacity.

The only difference with wind and solar is that you're then putting batteries at both ends of the grid.

[Kenneth Colburn @kacolburn]

@drvolts As Lee Atwater said, “If you’re explaining, you’re losing.”

[Kenneth Colburn @kacolburn]

@drvolts Exactly what the German establishment thought when they decided to let Hitler have a go at it.

[David Corn @DavidCornDC]

Shot:

Supreme Court Justice John Roberts in the "Chevron" decision: "Perhaps most fundamentally, Chevron’s presumption is misguided because agencies have no special competence in resolving statutory ambiguities. Courts do."

Chaser:

[Kenneth Colburn @kacolburn]

@Rich_Glick @ClementsFERC I second that motion, Rich.

[John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell]

Virtual power plants provide value that's very real. I learned a lot about where and how they work –– and what market rules we need to take advantage –– in this interview with Chris Rauscher (@idyllife) from @sunrun: https://t.co/5S3CuJPm8K

[John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell]

We need a new approach to #transmission. The intense focus on new power lines risks an expensive, slow, and ultimately unsuccessful path to deploying clean energy quickly and equitably, especially if we ignore the #monopoly #utility problem: https://t.co/jACcH4nmBG

[Kenneth Colburn @kacolburn]

@groundsourcegeo @drvolts Ayuh, first do no harm.

[Kenneth Colburn @kacolburn]

@AriPeskoe Please make this a manuscript, Ari. Kudos for shining a light on these rackets!

[Kenneth Colburn @kacolburn]

@JesseJenkins Quite right. Now the question is how much of that growth will/should come from distributed energy resources (DERs) and load-shaping vs. funded in the traditional, capital-biased, centralized utility regulation model?

[Kenneth Colburn @kacolburn]

@DMoKreis @GovChrisSununu Kudos to both of you for your wisdom!!

[Duncan S. Campbell @duncancampbell]

Where would you expect US electric utilities to be the least reliable?

Based on alarmism from people like @AlexEpstein or @BrianGitt, I assumed states with lots of wind and solar would be the worst.

Turns out the story is quite different.

Coming soon...

[Doug Lewin @douglewinenergy]

“'I think it's a really big deal. I think it's underappreciated at this point.' Without batteries, 'it's likely that on Thursday night, we would have been in emergency conditions,' said Lewin, who authors the Texas Energy & Power Newsletter." #txlege
https://t.co/I3u6lv1ag3

[Kenneth Colburn @kacolburn]

Superb piece by Luis Reyes in @UtilityDive on how Kit Carson Electric Cooperative is enhancing energy independence, installing solar+storage, generating savings for its member-owners, and positioning itself for the future. Other co-ops can do so too!
https://t.co/z92ScSgZHz

[Kenneth Colburn @kacolburn]

RMI focusing on VPP opportunities for electric cooperatives! Hear, hear! https://t.co/cy96Ya7XCs

[Kenneth Colburn @kacolburn]

@RegAssistProj Devastating. Climate change, alas, will bring many unhappy returns.