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by cwal37 1y ago
Second US organized market to do so, and third in the region, after NY(ISO) and Ontario (IESO). With HQ there as well, it’s actually quite a large coal-free chunk of grid. What will be interesting is the extent to which offshore wind and im
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by cwal37 1y ago
imo, that's basically the dirty secret of grid data, post 9/11 it seemed as if everything went behind the CEII wall, but in reality it has always been that if you're a legacy player or have the money you can make sure you hav
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by cwal37 1y ago
They’ve steadily expanded over the years, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was real. It’s not just calculators, TI chips show up in a lot of military hardware in particular.
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by cwal37 1y ago
Also already building a new fab up in Sherman, Texas. Fabs have pretty decent electricity demand, I actually sited a battery against that one after we did a bit of modeling with the new load vs the solar flows in the area. Siting just means
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Byte Blackouts: How large data center loads are surfacing new issues(blog.gridstatus.io)
4 points by cwal37 1y ago|0 comments
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Tesla odometer uses "predictive algorithms" to void warranty, lawsuit claims(arstechnica.com)
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems Announces Commercial Plant in Virginia(latitudemedia.com)
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Arlington, Virginia, the Safest Place in America(bloomberg.com)
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by cwal37 2y ago
Bluesky has really exploded in certain niches over the past week, I think my followers have gone up 5-6x since Saturday. I'd been a somewhat active user over the past year as conversation on the field I work in (energy) become so degra
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by cwal37 2y ago
This is more people just casually conflating two separate terms: geothermal and ground-source. Pretty frustrating since it is right there in the name of each, ground-source heat pumps are near-surface and basically leveraging the annual ave
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by cwal37 2y ago
Pretty much. He also authored an opinion today against the EPA's good neighbor rule. Directly continuing the work of his mother, who was head of the EPA during the early Reagan years until she was forced to resign as even within that a
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No physics? No problem. AI weather forecasting is already making strides(arstechnica.com)
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by cwal37 2y ago
Heyo everyone, cool to see this here. I'm a co-founder and head of product at Grid Status if anyone has specific questions about the site. I see some energy market questions here about CAISO and natural gas, net load, etc., so here&#x2
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by cwal37 3y ago
Folks here seemed to like the last eclipse dashboard, so I thought I'd post our pre-cursor blog here for the upcoming one as well. There's also a link to a new eclipse page[0] that will start filling in with data as we get closer
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What to Expect on the Grid During the Total Solar Eclipse(blog.gridstatus.io)
3 points by cwal37 3y ago|1 comments
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by cwal37 3y ago
It’s even a bit funnier than you put it since on net they consume electricity due to round trip efficiency losses. This also can provide something of an interesting discussion with local authorities when trying to site a battery somewhere
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by cwal37 3y ago
Those early reg-d PJM batteries also got absolutely physically wrecked, so it wasn’t the best outcome. ERCOT is quite different from PJM when it comes to AS - the market is very deep and the operational needs are increasing in a way they ar
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by cwal37 3y ago
That’s not why it is done, it’s because this is reporting in capacity and that is the physical capacity being installed. That phrasing makes it sound nefarious, then you end with a fairly low solar range (which varies substantially and ex
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by cwal37 3y ago
Boy, been quite a week for US weather (winter finally hitting) and it looks like the grid is going to get quite stressed early next week. ERCOT's current supply and demand forecast widget in particular[1] is looking pretty challenging
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Investigating Apple's Clean Grid Forecast(blog.gridstatus.io)
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Curtailment: When We Throw Away Clean Energy(blog.gridstatus.io)
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by cwal37 3y ago
Everything in that fuel mix is grid scale on the transmission network, not the distribution system that residential batteries are on. Looking at the records[0] page, maximum battery charging is approaching 4.5 GW in CAISO, so they're r
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by cwal37 3y ago
Like someone else said, 2024 has a "total eclipse", but its path is more central, largely avoiding the solar-heavy west. It will still hit Texas (ERCOT), but since the date is early April the grid conditions should be relaxed enou
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Eclipse October 2023(gridstatus.io)
118 points by cwal37 3y ago|22 comments
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TF2: A Distinctive Lack of Team Recognition [video](youtube.com)
3 points by cwal37 3y ago|0 comments
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by cwal37 4y ago
Well, I appreciate your dedication to responding after I kicked off this thread. Given the first response I didn’t feel it was worth the time to continue engaging, but you hit pretty much every point I would have.
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by cwal37 4y ago
Actually, over nearly the past two decades, in the US, it has been the opposite of a “consistent trend of dropping energy security.” Considered like a trade balance, since 2019 the net energy balance in the US is positive.
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by cwal37 4y ago
Curious to listen to this podcast[0], but it seems that that is not true. [0] https://twitter.com/aaronstein1/status/1606762318397784064?s...
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by cwal37 4y ago
I dunno, I think Chicago is certainly more walkable and less car-dependent than SF. Then you have DC, which probably is (substantially more public transit at least) as well, and even cities like Minneapolis which are probably more amenable
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by cwal37 4y ago
Strong recommendation for Mastering Grain Markets[0] if the discussion in this thread around why spring wheat is up interests you. Global ag commodities like this are keyed off of so many events, it’s really interesting to dive into the his

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