Policy & Market Development @CleanCapital_. Energy nerd. Political junkie. Making American energy cleaner, faster. @SEIA & @Energy_Leaders alum. Views = my own.
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Scott Elias retweeted
i can’t stress enough how vitally important it is for any discussion of the permitting bill to grapple with what the transmission provisions would mean for decarbonization
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Scott Elias retweeted
Obama tonight on his Cheesecake Factory line: "They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke. The White House even called the Secretary of the Treasury. This is the man who is in charge of the economy. The person who's supposed to be figuring out how to make your life more affordable. The guy who's supposed to be figuring out how to lower inflation. And reduce interest rates. They told him he should hold a press conference in front of the Cheesecake Factory."
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@NFL @NFLOfficiating let’s just go to flag football if everytime a qb gets touched it’s roughing the passer!
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This crew in the Packers Lions game needs to be investigated and suspended after this game.
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Churchill could have shortened WW2 by years if he had just “done a deal” with Hitler. George Washington could have done a deal to end the American Revolution. Zelenskyy is in good company.
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“we will pay any price….to assure the success and survival of liberty.” Is this still true? Do we prize liberty or do we prize power and purse? No more clear test than the choice between Ukraine and Russia. Abandon Ukraine and we abandon liberty. Eventually even our own.
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Beyond irresponsible. What part of enforcing a law passed 86-11 by the Senate does the President and his advisors not understand? It’s unconscionable that this administration is capitulating to a Russian dictator who illegally invaded Ukraine and butchers innocent civilians every single day. If the President wants to actually bring down energy prices, he can do it by solving the Iran problem, not by doing a solid for Vladimir Putin.
apnews.com/article/russia-sa…
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USDA just effectively gutted REAP, one of the most popular tools farmers have to cut energy costs.
Iowa Farmers Union’s Matt Russell: walking away from these “win-win-win investments is very disappointing.”
Read here: grist.org/food-and-agricultu…
Scott Elias retweeted
Another good explanation of why it's either this federal permitting reform bill, or nothing until at least 2029, if ever. It's fine to oppose the bill on merits. But let's dispense with the pretense there's some better deal waiting in January 2027. There is not. If you oppose the bill, you support the status quo for the foreseeable future. Defend and own that position.
I agree with every word of this.
I’ll add that @RepHuffman will chair the House natural resources committee if Dems win the majority and thus will have the pen on writing the next climate and energy agenda, including trying to change elements of BAAJA he doesn’t like.
But if you kill BAAJA now, you’re back at square one—or worse, since you’ll have alienated all the negotiators who secured this deal.
If/when Dems take the majority, instead of moving forward, you’ll be picking up the pieces of this deal on the pretty thin hope that you can write an entirely new and better one, and somehow get Trump to sign it when he’ll have zero incentive to do so.
The clear move here—including the best way to set Dems up for success next Congress—is to take this (quite strong) deal and hit the ground running next Congress to do more.
Scott Elias retweeted
I know Americans can’t be bothered to care much about the international order unless it has direct personal financial consequences, but my god this is shameful for our country. A cost that can’t be measured in dollars.
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Seneca warned that Rome’s bloody spectacles corrupted the people who watched them. A civilization erodes when it cultivates an appetite for executions as a form of entertainment.
Secretary Hegseth’s plan to livestream the Fort Hood execution risks feeding that appetite. The victims deserve justice administered with solemnity. Broadcasting a death diminishes us and is not an effective deterrent. I urge him to reconsider.
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Over the years, the clean energy industry and environmental groups have drifted further apart. As the industry grew up, it didn’t need to lean on the organizing power of enviros. The split screen reactions of green groups and clean energy to the permitting reform bill illustrate just how far apart these two groups have come.
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Did the Packers make any positive changes from last season’s collapse? How does this front office and coaching staff spend an entire offseason not addressing the O Line? The only improvement from last season to this one appears to be the kicker
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There is no better example I can think of how Trump isn’t a steward of America or remotely patriotic or even nationalistic. He is simply a partisan of his own ego. This is just gross. He’s trying to suck up to a dictator and adversary by mocking another American president. And, btw, the anonymous functionary running this account will be remembered as a tiny little throne-sniffing weasel.
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Two weeks ago, SEIA recapped the major records that solar and storage set in 2026: seia.org/blog/6-records-sola…
Last week, 3 of them were broken once again.
Solar and storage are breaking records faster than we can keep up... and that's been critical to keeping the lights on.
Two Texas grid records today:
Highest demand ever: 87, 340 megawatts at 4:45pm CT (beating the record by nearly 2 GW)
New solar record at 34,665 MW
The two go together! When it's extremely hot, as it often is in Texas, demand and solar production both shoot upward. #txenergy 1/
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Breaking: U.S. Department of Energy discovers that solar panels do not work when the sun is not out.
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Supporting private property rights can't come with an exception for solar.
Farmers should be free to choose solar to earn income, keep farms in the family, and generate energy that America depends on.
Great piece from @LimitGovt's Robert Romano: washingtonexaminer.com/op-ed…
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Much of the solar and storage boom is happening in so-called red states.
It’s not about politics. It’s about economics and meeting huge demand quickly.
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On any given afternoon, Texas now gets as much as 40% of its electricity from solar.
This is saving Texans money and showing the country how solar supports affordability, reliability, growth, and energy security.
Read my latest in @dallasnews: dallasnews.com/opinion/comme…
Choosing 7 a.m. is like judging rush-hour traffic at 4 a.m. At PJM’s 2nd-highest demand ever (~6 p.m.), solar was still producing 11.5 GW (7.1%) after topping 13 GW earlier that day. That’s with a fraction of the solar Texas has. One snapshot isn’t the whole story.
