Jeff St John
@jeffstjohn.bsky.social
Chief reporter at Canary Media, energy transition believer, holder of faith in truth, justice, and the inherent goodness of my fellow human beings. Parent of Lily the Corgi.
The Connecticut Green Bank goes beyond loans and grants to directly develop and own solar projects for towns and schools. Backers say it's a good way to grow clean energy and combat rising energy costs — and they want more states to follow its lead:
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Connecticut’s pioneering model for publicly owned, small-scale solar
The Connecticut Green Bank goes beyond grants and loans to directly develop solar for towns and schools — a model other states could follow.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Connecticut Green Bank goes beyond loans and grants to directly develop and own solar projects for towns and schools. Backers say it's a good way to grow clean energy and combat rising energy costs — and they want more states to follow its lead:
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November 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This Thanksgiving, @CanaryMediaInc wants to thank all our readers and supporters who help us examine and demystify the work of accomplishing the transition to clean energy. If you think we're doing a good job, let us know with your contribution today!
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Canary Media | Covering the clean energy transition
Ambitious, nonprofit journalism on the clean energy transition, economy-wide decarbonization, and climatetech markets.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The giving season is upon us — and @CanaryMediaInc couldn't do our work without the generous contributions of readers like you. We're committed to reporting on a just and practical clean energy transition. Join us in that work, and contribute today!
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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Scoop: Rep. Eugene Vindman knows what Trump said on a 2019 call with the Saudi Crown Prince about Jamal Khashoggi's killing, and his effort to make it public is about to rachet up.
Tomorrow, Vindman will appear alongside Khossoggi's widow to call on Trump to release the transcript
Tomorrow, Vindman will appear alongside Khossoggi's widow to call on Trump to release the transcript
Exclusive: Congressman Plans New Push For Trump-MBS Transcript
Rep. Eugene Vindman will appear with Jamal Khashoggi's widow to push for release of a "shocking" transcript between Trump and MBS
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November 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Scoop: Rep. Eugene Vindman knows what Trump said on a 2019 call with the Saudi Crown Prince about Jamal Khashoggi's killing, and his effort to make it public is about to rachet up.
Tomorrow, Vindman will appear alongside Khossoggi's widow to call on Trump to release the transcript
Tomorrow, Vindman will appear alongside Khossoggi's widow to call on Trump to release the transcript
The Trump administration has forced the aging, costly polluting J.H. Campbell coal plant in Michigan to stay running for another 90-day stretch, citing an energy “emergency” that state utility regulators and regional grid operators say does not exist:
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Trump cites ‘emergency’ to keep Michigan coal plant online into winter
The Energy Department’s orders to keep the J.H. Campbell plant running are driving up costs and pollution. States and advocates are challenging the move…
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November 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The Trump administration has forced the aging, costly polluting J.H. Campbell coal plant in Michigan to stay running for another 90-day stretch, citing an energy “emergency” that state utility regulators and regional grid operators say does not exist:
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Grid Strategies finds 90GW of data centers pushing U.S. peak demand additions to 166GW by 2030, as much as 15 New York Cities. It also found utilities may be overstating DC demand by 40%, highlighting cost risks being pushed onto everyday customers:
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Data-center power forecasts climb to unreachable heights
Utilities expect electricity growth to reach levels that are hard to fathom — and they’re using those estimates to justify costly new investments in…
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November 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Grid Strategies finds 90GW of data centers pushing U.S. peak demand additions to 166GW by 2030, as much as 15 New York Cities. It also found utilities may be overstating DC demand by 40%, highlighting cost risks being pushed onto everyday customers:
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i think the synthesis so far of the LA/DC/Chicago experiences is:
1) vulnerable people should hide and wait it out to whatever extent they can
2) other people should help them do that, financially and otherwise
3) other people should also get loud
4) not violent though
1) vulnerable people should hide and wait it out to whatever extent they can
2) other people should help them do that, financially and otherwise
3) other people should also get loud
4) not violent though
Greg Bovino is leading a rebel cavalry terrorizing America—and it's important to recognize that it's in retreat. While the trauma and terror Bovino’s raiders instill is real and damaging, it’s remarkable to note how ineffective the force has turned out to be. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-bord...
Trump, Border Patrol Retreat in Failure from Chicago
Five important lessons of the first six months of Trump’s immigration raids — and why CBP’s Greg Bovino is the Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Trump era.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
November 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
i think the synthesis so far of the LA/DC/Chicago experiences is:
1) vulnerable people should hide and wait it out to whatever extent they can
2) other people should help them do that, financially and otherwise
3) other people should also get loud
4) not violent though
1) vulnerable people should hide and wait it out to whatever extent they can
2) other people should help them do that, financially and otherwise
3) other people should also get loud
4) not violent though
Can PJM, the country's biggest energy market, require new data centers to submit to power cutoff during grid emergencies? Data center developers say no. But some lawmakers and consumer groups say it's the only sure way to curb skyrocketing energy costs:
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Will PJM do what it takes to get data-center costs under control?
Advocates say new data centers in the biggest U.S. power market should have to stop using electricity when demand peaks to help rein in costs. Tech…
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November 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Can PJM, the country's biggest energy market, require new data centers to submit to power cutoff during grid emergencies? Data center developers say no. But some lawmakers and consumer groups say it's the only sure way to curb skyrocketing energy costs:
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Trump is under the mistaken impression that the Epstein scandal is about Democrats vs Republicans. Actually, it’s about pedophiles vs people who want pedophiles to spend the rest of their lives in prison
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Trump is under the mistaken impression that the Epstein scandal is about Democrats vs Republicans. Actually, it’s about pedophiles vs people who want pedophiles to spend the rest of their lives in prison
That's a hell of an AI circle jerk:
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November 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
That's a hell of an AI circle jerk:
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If people want to tie Trump / Republicans to the rising cost of energy, you can't get much more explicit than these federal must-run orders. 💡🔌
The Trump admin seems set to force two Colorado coal plants to stay open past their planned closure this year, even as the costs of keeping an aging, unnecessary Michigan coal plant running through the summer top $80M. Are more must-run orders coming?
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Trump’s DOE may soon force more coal plants to stay open
Colorado coal plants are likely to face DOE orders to keep running past planned closure dates, even as the costs of keeping an old Michigan plant open…
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November 12, 2025 at 11:34 PM
If people want to tie Trump / Republicans to the rising cost of energy, you can't get much more explicit than these federal must-run orders. 💡🔌
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Literally pollution for the hell of it. Costs more, utilities and regulators don't want it, more people will die early deaths and get asthma.
The Trump admin seems set to force two Colorado coal plants to stay open past their planned closure this year, even as the costs of keeping an aging, unnecessary Michigan coal plant running through the summer top $80M. Are more must-run orders coming?
www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...
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Trump’s DOE may soon force more coal plants to stay open
Colorado coal plants are likely to face DOE orders to keep running past planned closure dates, even as the costs of keeping an old Michigan plant open…
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November 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Literally pollution for the hell of it. Costs more, utilities and regulators don't want it, more people will die early deaths and get asthma.
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Im old enough to remember when capitalism was a thing in America.
The Trump admin seems set to force two Colorado coal plants to stay open past their planned closure this year, even as the costs of keeping an aging, unnecessary Michigan coal plant running through the summer top $80M. Are more must-run orders coming?
www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...
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Trump’s DOE may soon force more coal plants to stay open
Colorado coal plants are likely to face DOE orders to keep running past planned closure dates, even as the costs of keeping an old Michigan plant open…
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November 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Im old enough to remember when capitalism was a thing in America.
The Trump admin seems set to force two Colorado coal plants to stay open past their planned closure this year, even as the costs of keeping an aging, unnecessary Michigan coal plant running through the summer top $80M. Are more must-run orders coming?
www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...
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Trump’s DOE may soon force more coal plants to stay open
Colorado coal plants are likely to face DOE orders to keep running past planned closure dates, even as the costs of keeping an old Michigan plant open…
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November 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The Trump admin seems set to force two Colorado coal plants to stay open past their planned closure this year, even as the costs of keeping an aging, unnecessary Michigan coal plant running through the summer top $80M. Are more must-run orders coming?
www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...
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Canary Media is returning to the Bay Area! We invite you to watch the event live TONIGHT starting at 6:00 p.m. PT. Great conversations with Mark Toney of TURN, CEC Chair David Hochschild, and @drvolt.bsky.social and Kim-Mai Cutler of Initialized Capital...
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Canary Live Bay Area 2025
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November 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Canary Media is returning to the Bay Area! We invite you to watch the event live TONIGHT starting at 6:00 p.m. PT. Great conversations with Mark Toney of TURN, CEC Chair David Hochschild, and @drvolt.bsky.social and Kim-Mai Cutler of Initialized Capital...
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Vicinity Energy is electrifying Boston and Cambridge's massive steam heat system. Here's the latest on its 'eSteam' plan, incl a giant heat pump that taps the chilly Charles River, and how district energy can beat building-by-building electrification:
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Boston’s century-old steam heat system is getting a low-carbon…
Boston and Cambridge’s decades-old district energy system is being retooled to shift away from gas and toward heat pumps and electric boilers.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Vicinity Energy is electrifying Boston and Cambridge's massive steam heat system. Here's the latest on its 'eSteam' plan, incl a giant heat pump that taps the chilly Charles River, and how district energy can beat building-by-building electrification:
www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
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The two Democrats who won seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission tonight have pledged to combat rising rates at utility Georgia Power - and to push it to explore cleaner, cheaper options to its current massive fossil gas power plant buildout plan:
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Energy bills are rising nationwide. In Georgia, they’re on the ballot.
Critics claim the state's utility regulator is too passive. Two Democratic challengers say they’ll change that — and push for more cheap, clean energy.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:16 AM
The two Democrats who won seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission tonight have pledged to combat rising rates at utility Georgia Power - and to push it to explore cleaner, cheaper options to its current massive fossil gas power plant buildout plan:
www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti...
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Could offshore wind farms off the coast of California kill bats? Researchers had been studying this novel and fascinating question — until the Trump administration yanked their funding: www.canarymedia.com/articles/off... via @fieseler.bsky.social
Do offshore wind farms kill bats? Trump cut research into the…
Scientists were making remarkable discoveries about bat activity in the ocean waters where California plans to build turbines. Now their $1.6M grant is…
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November 4, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Could offshore wind farms off the coast of California kill bats? Researchers had been studying this novel and fascinating question — until the Trump administration yanked their funding: www.canarymedia.com/articles/off... via @fieseler.bsky.social
Great story from
@canaryprimary.bsky.social's Kari Lydersen about Puerto Rico residents' ongoing push, backed by a federal judge, to focus grid recovery funds on a more distributed (and resilient) architecture using cheap, reliable solar and batteries: www.canarymedia.com/articles/dis...
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@canaryprimary.bsky.social's Kari Lydersen about Puerto Rico residents' ongoing push, backed by a federal judge, to focus grid recovery funds on a more distributed (and resilient) architecture using cheap, reliable solar and batteries: www.canarymedia.com/articles/dis...
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Puerto Rico’s energy future: distributed solar or centralized grid?
A judge has called for the Trump administration to reevaluate assumptions as it works to redirect rooftop solar funds toward the grid and fossil fuel…
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November 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Great story from
@canaryprimary.bsky.social's Kari Lydersen about Puerto Rico residents' ongoing push, backed by a federal judge, to focus grid recovery funds on a more distributed (and resilient) architecture using cheap, reliable solar and batteries: www.canarymedia.com/articles/dis...
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@canaryprimary.bsky.social's Kari Lydersen about Puerto Rico residents' ongoing push, backed by a federal judge, to focus grid recovery funds on a more distributed (and resilient) architecture using cheap, reliable solar and batteries: www.canarymedia.com/articles/dis...
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Can Gridcare's software help utilities and data centers find faster, cheaper paths to power? The startup's inaugural attempt found 80MW of flexibility-enabled capacity for 2026 at Portland General Electric's Hillsboro data center hub — a good start:
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Oregon utility tries out a faster, cheaper way to power data centers
Portland General Electric used Gridcare’s software to identify extra space on its grid — available to any existing data center willing to be flexible.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Can Gridcare's software help utilities and data centers find faster, cheaper paths to power? The startup's inaugural attempt found 80MW of flexibility-enabled capacity for 2026 at Portland General Electric's Hillsboro data center hub — a good start:
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Republicans' "One Big Beautiful Bill" is killing off homeowner heat pump tax credits. But it kept tax credits for commercially leased geothermal and thermal storage systems—and companies are already gearing up to use them to keep clean heat growing:
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The loophole that could give clean heat a boost under Trump
The OBBBA killed tax credits for heat pumps, but kept them for commercially leased geothermal and thermal storage systems — a path to keep home clean heat…
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November 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Republicans' "One Big Beautiful Bill" is killing off homeowner heat pump tax credits. But it kept tax credits for commercially leased geothermal and thermal storage systems—and companies are already gearing up to use them to keep clean heat growing:
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Anniversaries are mixed bags. But let's not overlook what we've built together even as we may be struggling mightily to keep the relationship intact...
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10 Years Post-Paris: A decade that defied predictions
The 2015 Paris Agreement changed the course of climate politics. On its 10th anniversary, we look at progress across clean energy, policy, emissions, jobs and more.
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November 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Anniversaries are mixed bags. But let's not overlook what we've built together even as we may be struggling mightily to keep the relationship intact...
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Yeah, this doesn't sound good at all...
🔌💡 Really disturbing article – especially for those of us who think nuclear can be done safely & well, and could play an important role in a carbon-free grid. Politically-connected, regulator-undermining, safety-shortcutting development makes the whole industry untrustworthy, & could bring disaster.
Do not miss this stunning investigation that reveals how a Koch-funded machine and Silicon Valley's new found interest is behind the dangerous advanced nuclear hype in the US.
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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November 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Yeah, this doesn't sound good at all...
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Canary Live Bay Area
Join the Bay Area's clean energy community for an evening of expert insights, networking, drinks, hors d'oeuvres, and live music.
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November 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Get your tickets to @CanaryMediaInc 's live event on Nov. 6 in Berkeley! Join energy and climate leaders for live music and energy transition strategizing, featuring CEC Chair David Hochschild, @drvolts, Kim-Mai Cutler of Initialized Capital, and more: www.eventbrite.com/e/canary-liv...
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