Chris McKee

Make Solar & Wind permitting easy. Up-Zone Boulevards for more Apartments. Build better Police Academies. Reform Immigration. Reduce Gun ownership. Vote Blue 🌊

[Chris McKee @Ragcha]

Some of my suggestions for solving homelessness & lowering rents in Los Angeles. Please reply & share!

@MayorOfLA @mhdcd8 @KatyForLA @nithyavraman @adrin_nazarian @TraciParkforLA @CurrenDPriceJr @CD6LosAngeles @MRodCD7 @CW_HeatherHutt @CD12LA
https://t.co/pJN0F1obLZ

[Chris McKee @Ragcha]

@mzjacobson What would happen if California installed another 25GW of batteries in the next two years?

[Chris McKee @Ragcha]

@AssaadRazzouk @mzjacobson 2051 is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too late.

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[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

California has the cheapest wholesale electricity prices in the country, and clean energy is the reason why

Free fuel (sun, wind, water) together with battery storage produces low wholesale costs. California's retail electricity prices are quite high for a few reasons, but renewable energy is not one of them.

https://t.co/iIVfmHkfij

@StanfordEnergy

Also, Figure 8 of this paper shows how the wholesale (spot) price of electricity on the CAISO grid dropped by 50% between 2023 and 2024 during a period when the CAISO grid saw 100% WWS for a period of 98 out of 116 days in 2024 with zero blackouts evidencing further that more renewables and storage make it easier to balance demand with supply, thus lowering the spot price of electricity. https://t.co/eMc4m9CTgN

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

WAGE GROWTH IN MAY WAS THE LOWEST IN 5 YEARS.

Americans are working harder but getting less spending power from their paychecks because of anemic wage growth and rising inflation.

The trump economy sucks.

November is coming.

[Chris McKee @Ragcha]

@leRaffl @ProfRayWills @johnrhanger I love the team work!

I hope the world starts watching soon! 🙏🏼

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

IKEA has installed 935,000+ solar panels and is on track for 100% renewable electricity.

This isn’t a future idea. It’s already happening.

We have the solutions. Implement them.

#ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables

[John Raymond Hanger  @johnrhanger]

Good morning with good news: India's Morena solar & 1-hour storage project's power will be $29/MWh.

In places with good solar/wind, RE & storage costs $54-$82/MWh that will operate 95% of time.

Capex cost of large solar fell from $1.91 in 2015 to $0.50/watt in 2025!

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

I’m glad there were 18 republicans. Should have been more. But thank you Don. History will record your name well in this

Who was the dem no vote?

[Chris McKee @Ragcha]

@johnrhanger Alas, the article doesn’t state what BEV sales were in Oz a year ago.

@leRaffl should get those numbers out in the next couple of weeks, though…

[🌻 Dumfounded 🤯 @j2dumfounded]

@ChristineFische @CNN @Ragcha @laurapaddison @afreedma Because the administration are climate deniers.

If you don’t have climate data, you can’t show that the climate is changing. In this case, we don’t know what’s going to happen to the oscillations or to a lot of fisheries which face challenges.

Same reason NOAA is being cut.

[🌻 Dumfounded 🤯 @j2dumfounded]

@onlyloveone0711 @judy72400929111 @CNN @Ragcha @laurapaddison @afreedma Because when Trump is not serving his Kremlin masters, he is serving his oil and gas industry masters.

In fact, it’s all one convergence if you look at the fact that the way the Koch family made their seed money was working for Stalin.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

There is a lot of misinformation floating around about California’s election — including from the President.

This explainer is worth a watch.

And yes, for the record: we wish the votes were counted faster, too.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

The U.S. is almost matching China in battery investment!

[Chris McKee @Ragcha]

Lebanon needs to declare all-out war on Hezbollah, and go room by room through their cities, pushing all of their operatives south into Israeli forces. https://t.co/vLXpgzCTRL

[Chris McKee @Ragcha]

Any day now we should see if the city managed to reduce homelessness for a third year in a row.

I absolutely agree with you that we need to move faster.

LA County is responsible for mental health. It should be building mental hospitals right and left.

Part of the problem is that the way the city is chartered, the mayor doesn’t have very much power. And the county is responsible for some of these problems.

My sense is that the mayor can replace heads of departments in permitting and at LADWP. Speeding up construction in LA would add more units to the market and lower rents, which would stop the flow of new homeless people.

But also NIMBYs need to stop electing NIMBY city council members. And we need to reform our city zoning process, so people are more aware of it when it is happening.

I think it should happen for one year, city-wide, after the census every 10 years. And then whatever the city decides on, with lots of public input, sticks for 10 years, so developers don’t face unpredictable delays and lawsuits while they’re trying to build.

@KatyForLA @mhdcd8 @EunissesH @CD13LosAngeles @LindseyPHorvath @HildaSolis

[Chris McKee @Ragcha]

I love @KarenBassLA, but this is why I voted for @nithyavraman. I wanted to make sure we had all the best ideas on the table being debated, so we can move forward.

And Raman is great. I hope she runs for LA County Executive in two years. We need more mental hospitals for homeless people ASAP to get them off the street. https://t.co/k0xVC57MQg

[Chris McKee @Ragcha]

This is happening in California too.

Let’s add another 25GW of utility batteries now that they are cheap @CaliforniaISO and stop using gas entirely.

@SenBlakespear @sencabaldon @CASenCaballero @Cervantes4CA
@SenatorChoi @SenDaveCortese @SenMariaEDurazo @TimGraysonCA

[Chris Meder @EVCurveFuturist]

Gas spent 20 years owning the evening peak. Batteries took a year to crash the party.

That's disruption. Not gradual, but a rapid shift in who supplies grid's most valuable hours.

The battle was never about total generation. It was about the peak & batteries are winning it.

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

How plumbers sleep during the AI revolution…

[Chris McKee @Ragcha]

Important to recognize far more workers would benefit from this than would suffer. https://t.co/WE2Va6jyLP

[Kurt Andersen @KBAndersen]

A+ questioning by @tedlieu. Pivot-to-video perfection.