Kris Martin

Nonaffiliated combatant in the fight against stupidity.

[Kris Martin @ksvsm]

@FoxGGreen Now I’m going to be humming it all day….

[New York ISO @NewYorkISO]

New data shows that New York’s grid operators are leaning more heavily than ever on emergency tools—known as Emergency Operating Procedures—to keep the lights on. Learn more ➡️ https://t.co/1pGXJQRLRp

[Kris Martin @ksvsm]

@ziontree I appreciate hearing books in the author’s own voice. I have ADHD, so I tend to get more from an audiobook than a printed text. I miss graphics. It’s hard to tell when hearing something whether it’s a statement or a chapter title/heading. Any cues help.

[Kris Martin @ksvsm]

@elonmusknews30 A. Yes

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@ziontree Hello! MS in Technical Communication here, with a passion for making information about technology and science accessible to everyone.

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@FocusLacks I wrote about this recently. Solar and wind developers will tell you the carbon balance is in their favor. Sometimes they’re wrong…. https://t.co/bP87adA77P

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@NYEnergyAllies @FoxGGreen Will this be available online s as y some point?

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@NYEnergyAllies Ulster County chooses solar? Wrong. One piddling 30-MW solar plant is listed in the NYISO interconnection queue. Some upstate counties are getting over 1,000 MW of solar PLUS wind. Ulster Co. knows it will never have to host a single 2,000-acre solar project.

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@NYEnergyAllies Or call “renewables” “zero-emissions.” I agree they should be in the same category, since “renewables” are not particularly renewable.

[Kris Martin @ksvsm]

@xiaowang1984 @MeredithAngwin Dispatch a sunset.

[Kris Martin @ksvsm]

My latest Substack post. Solar developers will tell you it’s better for carbon emissions to cut down trees and install panels. Are they right? (Click on the link, not the photo)

https://t.co/OjBznSX1GK

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My latest Substack post looks at how public funds are used to pay for NYS solar buildout (much of it also applies to wind).
https://t.co/RDWwLkDkUB

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@NYFarmer Correction: the project was opposed, NOT stopped. It’s being sited under state mandate (Art. 8 of the Public Service Law), so this opposition is largely irrelevant. I’ve seen farmers on both sides of these projects claim they’ll go under.

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@NYEnergyAllies Do I sense Delgado is testing the waters for a run against Hochul, should her popularity wane?

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@nuclearny And pretty much the only option left for lowering downstate emissions. Renewable buildout upstate is slow and lacks transmission support, the Champlain-Hudson power line won’t help winter generation, and offshore wind projects are looking iffier every day.

[Kris Martin @ksvsm]

Solar grazing: Is it agrivoltaics—or sheepwashing? My latest Substack post. https://t.co/TiMRBcgvzv

[Kris Martin @ksvsm]

A 38-acre solar plant in Castleton NY (just south of Albany) burned overnight. Years ago, solar developers ridiculed me for asking about fires on solar sites. They denied that such fires were possible, or that panels would be damaged by them.

https://t.co/fadFY5wuFT

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@JamesMelville @ClimateRealists Personally I believe there’s a problem, but this piece is from 2016. Other studies have both contradicted and confirmed its conclusions since then. We need more research.

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@lbruning2 @NYSComptroller After assessing the data, I must conclude that either 1) significant numbers of solar projects have stopped generating electricity or 2) these projects are operating but are failing to report what they generate. Neither situation is acceptable.

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@lbruning2 @PolicyEngineer The article infers that the determination of the earlier on-lake turbine study were definitive. Hochul has very publicly directed a group to reassess the earlier study’s conclusions. Lots of changes since then, including the way we build out new transmission for renewables.