Walker Wright

@Sunrun Policy VP ☀️ 🔋 ⚡️ dad, Oakland 🏡, NJ roots,❤️ on Ios. 🎤 ☀️ 💥 , 🐅 ⚽️, maps, history. Posts mine/RTs don’t endorse. Electrification starts@ 🏠.

[Walker Wright @walkerwright17]

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[East Bay Times @EastBayTimes]

Opinion: More big PG&E rate hikes if use of outdated system continues https://t.co/RyQ08rMwze

[Walker Wright @walkerwright17]

Never forget. This was a serious message back when it was called a “ tweet.” Generating and storing power onsite, timing consumption intelligently, and aggregating 🔋 dispatch of many such devices to the grid is logical and beneficial to all as overall demand increases. ☀️ 🏠 🔋 💥 #smartgrid #smarthome #DPP #smartpowerhour #onsite @CalEnergy #morepower @Sunrun

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

CALIFORNIA: We’re now in a Flex Alert.

What does that mean? We all need to conserve as much energy as possible during this record breaking heatwave.

Here’s what to do until 9pm tonight:
- Set thermostats to 78
- Turn off unnecessary lights
- Avoid using large appliances

[David Pomerantz @DavidPomerantz]

“Michigan really is ground zero right now for a utility accountability wave that is quite national.”

[Walker Wright @walkerwright17]

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[Walker Wright @walkerwright17]

Never forget! This was a serious tweet when it was called a tweet. Using power efficiency is a… really good thing. ☀️ 🏠 🔋 💥

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

CALIFORNIA: We’re now in a Flex Alert.

What does that mean? We all need to conserve as much energy as possible during this record breaking heatwave.

Here’s what to do until 9pm tonight:
- Set thermostats to 78
- Turn off unnecessary lights
- Avoid using large appliances

[Walker Wright @walkerwright17]

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[Sunrun @Sunrun]

Congratulations to Sunrun CEO Mary Powell on being named to the 2026 TIME 100 Climate List, recognizing the world’s most influential leaders advancing climate solutions.

Under Mary’s leadership, Sunrun is accelerating the adoption of home battery storage and distributed power plants that deliver reliable, dispatchable energy to the grid. By unlocking the power already installed in 1.2 million homes, Mary is helping expand grid capacity, lower energy costs for families, strengthen energy resilience, and reduce reliance on fossil fuels.

TIME's senior correspondent Justin Worland writes:

"Mary Powell is CEO of Sunrun, which has grown from a residential solar provider in the U.S. into a major operator of home batteries that can send power back to the grid when it is most needed. These distributed resources can add flexibility and capacity without relying solely on large, centralized power plants. This October, batteries from Sunrun delivered record power to California’s grid during a heat wave, supporting the system through peak demand and helping prove the argument that batteries already installed in homes can provide grid-scale power. Under Powell’s leadership, Sunrun is helping households participate in the energy transition."

Mary sees the opportunity clearly:

“Americans are choosing to generate and store their own power, and increasingly, to share energy with the grid when it’s needed. They’re moving from being passive energy consumers to active participants in the system. When I think about millions of homes doing that together, I see a tremendous opportunity, not just to make our energy system more resilient, but to give people a meaningful role in the climate solution.”

See the entire TIME100 Climate List: https://t.co/r9mTmkW67k

#TIME100Climate #Leadership #EnergyIndependence #BatteryStorage #SpeedToPower

[Walker Wright @walkerwright17]

His lead is substantial with 57% of votes counted so far. Bruce Giudici was a dem community leader.

[Ashley Zavala @ZavalaA]

A dead candidate is leading a supervisor's race in Calaveras County, California.

https://t.co/264f2iggTH

[Walker Wright @walkerwright17]

Show me the money

[Charles Hua @charlesxhua]

Yesterday, @powerlinesorg released “Utility Spending is Rising,” a comprehensive review of 51 investor-owned utilities’ earnings calls, finding that utilities are planning to spend $1.4 trillion on capital expenditures over the next 5 years through 2030.

https://t.co/2MimmXwVvd

[Ashley Zavala @ZavalaA]

The Trump Administration is threatening California's authority over the coast, mainly over disagreements over oil & gas projects and Space X activity.

CA Natural Resources Sec Wade Crowfoot says it's a political attack, while also noting CA leaders support space activity:

[Walker Wright @walkerwright17]

I’ve been to many PAO games in ⚽️ and 🏀 and the environment is electric. Obviously the NBA is more about entertainment with music and chants coming from the scoreboard. So the real comparison is to ACC or SEC college ball where the crowds are awesome. Even here it is best to quotes from legendary American college/ NBA coach Rick Pitino who also had the pleasure of coaching the Greens in 🇬🇷: “Panathinaikos-Olympiacos makes Louisville-Kentucky look like a church league game. I'm not exaggerating.”

[Walker Wright @walkerwright17]

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[Today In Socialism @2dayinsocialism]

On November 7th, 1917, the Bolsheviks seized power Russia, promising “peace, land and bread” to the people. Over the next 74 years the people were starved, killed by death squads, thrown in work camps and gulags, and other things unrelated to “peace, land and bread”.

[Tor "@SolarFred" Valenza @SolarFred]

Australia’s New South Wales urges hourly 100% renewable energy mandate for data centres #energysky -- via pv-tech: https://t.co/xG6SscO74R

[Walker Wright @walkerwright17]

@IHateSoccerPod @JAGsportsstuff It would be more successful in the spring. College Cup on a beautiful may weekend would do well with the right marketing. You can see other spring sports not wanting that competition.

[Walker Wright @walkerwright17]

@ewesoff reference to 🔋 growth @Sunrun #ariseia confidence 💥 #gridvalue

[Walker Wright @walkerwright17]

@IHateSoccerPod @SashoCirovski @TaylorTwellman @NCAASoccer That is better for the game.

[Walker Wright @walkerwright17]

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[Jeff St. John @jeffsaintjohn]

PG&E's plan to cut $2B in grid investments next year could impose project-killing delays on 15GW of solar and battery projects — a clear sign that California's utility wildfire liability conundrum is putting the state's clean energy progress in jeopardy:
https://t.co/fFSEHF1oL1

[CNN @CNN]

Democratic socialist Nithya Raman will defeat incumbent Karen Bass in the Los Angeles mayor's race, CNN projects. Follow live updates. https://t.co/niDL9rZN9l

[David Pomerantz @DavidPomerantz]

New post: I think folks are failing to grasp what a watershed election this was for the politics of monopoly utility companies.

Governors are the most important people to utility regulation in most states. The new ones ran on aggressive utility accountability platforms. 1/9

[Walker Wright @walkerwright17]

Most interesting on data center sentiment. Dig deeper!

[Steve Everley @saeverley]

Two notable pre-election findings on voter sentiment toward data centers:

1) They are far more supportive of development with guardrails than they are of outright bans.

2) A large share of voters are not firmly set in their opinions of data centers.

[Walker Wright @walkerwright17]

The energy story in Arizona: what the insiders actually think. #ACC, #VPP #Affordability #abundance :) ☀️ 🏠 🔋 💥

[Jeff St. John @jeffsaintjohn]

U.S. utility customers could be stuck paying dearly for unneeded power plants if/when the AI data center bubble bursts. Virtual power plants can hedge that risk, by paying customers for solar-charged batteries and grid-responsive thermostats instead:
https://t.co/bxYfsiCWa4