Mike Schowalter 🇺🇸🇺🇦

Senior Manager of Wholesale Electric Grid Transition for @FreshEnergy. RPCV Ukraine 05-07. Running stupid long distances since 2011. Tweets my own.

[Mike Schowalter 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @SchowalterOne]

@_clocolan @EnergySystemsIG @MWMStudio @The_Met_RI Awesome. Thanks for the tips! I’ll check them out.

[Mike Schowalter 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @SchowalterOne]

@_clocolan anything live in Providence the week of October 21? I’m in town for an @EnergySystemsIG conference (the best org helping us figure out how to collectively decarbonize the electric grid). It’d be awesome to hear something loud and in person.

[Mike Schowalter 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @SchowalterOne]

@SimonMahan @FERC_OPP Order R2D2. I’ll also accept C3PO.

[Mike Schowalter 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @SchowalterOne]

@KevinSKrause @SimonMahan agree! Continue to cultivate those relationships while working on stuff too, especially with staff, and you'll be a little more ahead of the ball after the election.

[Mike Schowalter 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @SchowalterOne]

The Charybdis might not be the best name for for a ship, but lets just hope it'll soon whip up whirlpools in the air much like its mythical sea-monster name-sake.
Also, the WSJ continues to impress me with their Climate and Energy Reporting. https://t.co/VXZBgzyFfz via @WSJ

[Mike Schowalter 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @SchowalterOne]

Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row. "This gas-free stretch started Halloween night and ran for 131 consecutive hours, about 5 days, nearly tripling Portugal’s previous record of 56 hours straight in 2021." @CanaryMediaInc https://t.co/99yViFq4Yd

[Mike Schowalter 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @SchowalterOne]

Synchronous condensers = freedom.
Also, this is a great read. https://t.co/pDa1MyC4IS

[Mike Schowalter 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @SchowalterOne]

And yet we only give transmission a cursory look (if that) when accrediting capacity.

[Macro Grid Initiative @TheMacroGrid]

Winter Storm Uri pummeled ERCOT, MISO & SPP, yet only Texas saw widespread outages in the frigid cold

Why?

Interregional transmission connections allowed SPP & MISO to import 15x more power than ERCOT

Transmission ties keep the lights on, saving lives and 💰 during emergencies

[Mike Schowalter 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @SchowalterOne]

Today’s moment of zen. #vinalhaven

[Just Stop Oil @JustStop_Oil]

Sam Johnson, 40, a construction worker from Essex, said:

“I took action today simply because we have run out of time. We’ve got to tackle this now. We have known for longer than I’ve been alive what would happen if we kept burning fossils fuels and now we are seeing this catastrophe unfold in real time. The whole world knows that licensing new fossil fuel projects in 2023 will cause the deaths of millions of people.”

“We are at the greatest crossroads humanity has ever faced and unless we act now we will lose everything we have ever cared about.

“I have a Nephew who is 7 years old, who I love to bits, and as long as I have breath in my lungs I will fight to protect his future.”

🦺 Sam is not alone. Join him and thousands of others by signing up to take action at https://t.co/bLY1usEHyr

#SARvSAL#GallagherPremFinal#Twickenham

[Just Stop Oil @JustStop_Oil]

🚨 TIME TO TACKLE THE CLIMATE CRISIS

🦺 Two supporters of Just Stop Oil took to the field in today's rugby premiership final.

🚷 We will continue to take disruptive action until this government stops new fossil fuels.

💸 Support us at https://t.co/9r9837HNi8

#Twickenham

[Jesse D. Jenkins @JesseJenkins]

Great thread on challenges of siting. I'm increasingly convinced we've got to flip the script from developer driven process to public purpose driven process to plan at scale & pre-site & pre-negotiate community benefit terms, THEN developers bid to build. Read on for more on why

[Mike Schowalter 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @SchowalterOne]

@SimonMahan @DavidPomerantz I wonder what campaign contributions are looking like this year 🤔

[Mike Schowalter 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @SchowalterOne]

@SimonMahan Maybe arrive a day early for the MISO board meeting in September? We could use one of these in my office.

[Mike Schowalter 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @SchowalterOne]

@jasongay Now that you know cycling isn’t the only sport that covers miles like this should we expect more from you in our little corner of the world? Great article! And thank you.

[Mike Schowalter 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @SchowalterOne]

30 percent would be a BFD!

[Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll]

"Grid operators and transmission planning regions would be required to be able to transfer at least 30% of peak load to neighboring regions... Under a 15% transfer requirement, [US] would need to add 114 GW of transfer capacity, doubling existing amounts"
https://t.co/I8iHEQ9PcF

[Mike Schowalter 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @SchowalterOne]

If only we had viable passenger rail infrastructure here in the USA . . . . 😕

[Carbon Tracker @CarbonBubble]

The French 🇫🇷 Government has just banned short haul domestic flights, where viable rail 🚄 alternatives exist  https://t.co/rLuX9GcfV8

[Mike Schowalter 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @SchowalterOne]

@taitdl I wonder what the attorney:fine cost ratio is.

[Fresh Energy @FreshEnergy]

Let’s talk about what happened at the legislature! Join our policy experts on May 23 at 2:30 p.m. for a webinar to discuss why this year was the biggest yet for clean energy and climate—and why it means the work is just beginning. Bring your questions!
https://t.co/NdFYMB7ing

[Mike Schowalter 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @SchowalterOne]

@SimonMahan @taitdl @DocD19 @JamesHewettDC Yes, no regularity review . . .