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american politics makes a lot more sense when you realize no one's really had a resounding presidential victory since 2008. trump, biden, and trump all won pretty narrowly
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The future is in distributed, clean energy. Expanding rooftop solar, battery storage, microgrids, community energy projects, and other distributed energy resources can give Pennsylvanians greater energy freedom while improving reliability and reducing costs over the long term.
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The chief antagonist of offshore wind has been defeated in New Jersey. He’s being replaced by … the mayor of Cape May, another offshore wind opponent. heatmap.news/politics/jeff-v…
everyone needs to lighten up around here lol
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Here’s some good news: Revolution Wind is officially fully up and running, ready to deliver clean, low-cost energy to New Englanders!
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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
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Mike Sommers, President & CEO of @APIenergy: "Energy sits at the center of all of it: what families pay, whether America can compete and our capacity to power growth in an increasingly energy-intensive world.
There is a real opportunity for Democrats and Republicans to work together on those priorities. And the first test comes before the new Congress is even sworn in: permitting reform."
Good read. “The laboratory interviewed transformer manufacturers and their suppliers, and it found that bushings are the item with the longest wait in a large power transformer, that two US manufacturers serve the 345 kV class and that none serves 765 kV.”
A damaged large transformer on the US grid can take five years or more to replace. The country has between 4,900 and 6,799 of them, and about 90% of the electricity it consumes passes through at least one. It imported 82% of the large transformers it bought in 2019.
Bushings, the insulators that carry the electrical connections through the transformer, are the part that earthquakes damage most often.
Idaho National Laboratory, a US Department of Energy lab, is putting a 230 kV power transformer through earthquake tests at the University of California San Diego. The shake table there stands outdoors and has a 40-by-25-foot platform. One test tries a decoupler, a retrofit that relieves the stress on the bushings. Another, scheduled for October 13, sets the transformer on base isolation, a mounting meant to reduce the shaking it feels. It will be the first test of base isolation on a transformer.
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The Trump administration's renewed attacks on offshore wind approvals in the US have called into question the durability of approvals – not just in the energy sector but for all infrastructure projects, a wind industry expert claimed. tinyurl.com/5n8d4hvk #windpower
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A new power plant in the US can get a bill for grid work well beyond its own fence. In PJM and SPP the generator pays for the upgrades its connection triggers; MISO refunds up to 10% at 345 kV and above; in Texas the transmission providers pay.
ALT US interconnection queue by technology, 2024 and 2025: total 2,061 GW, gas up from 136 to 253 GW. Chart: Frontier, on Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory queue data.
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everyone has until 9 a.m. to use the word tsunami, then we gotta crack those thesauri
