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tyler fitch @tyfi.bsky.social · 11d

Lessons: 1) Having an investor-owned utility with a shoulder at the wheel can get a lot done; 2) the anti-wind vibe might be weaker than it looks; 3) let's see what else we can do with the industrial capacity (the ship! the workers!) that Dominion has built with VA ratepayers' $$

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tyler fitch @tyfi.bsky.social · 11d

Canary inbox: Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) is nearing completion off of Virginia Beach. That's 2.6 GW--the biggest offshore wind project in the country-- in the Southeast, projected to be online in the next 6 months. we likely have the tax credit sunset to thank for it!

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tyler fitch @tyfi.bsky.social · Aug 21

k-pop demon hunters: perfect film, i am revived

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tyler fitch @tyfi.bsky.social · Aug 15

dead-ender behavior. I know I'm like a decade too late on this, but if we can't develop societal anti-bodies to these performances...we're cooked. decorahnews.com/news/15338/i...

Iowa AG Leads Letter Questioning Legality of Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Standard

The letter was sent to David Kennedy, CEO of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), a group that recently released its Financial Institutions Net-Zero standard.

decorahnews.com

tyler fitch @tyfi.bsky.social · Jul 23

how were nerds transmuting their niche interests into aura before black sabbath? was there an aleister crowley society or something?

tyler fitch @tyfi.bsky.social · Jul 22

Feels like market maturity didn't come a moment too soon for storage, which has become a serious player on some of our grids only in the last few years

blog.gridstatus.io/caiso-batter...

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tyler fitch @tyfi.bsky.social · Jul 22

From semafor: As the dust is settling on OBBB, storage is (roughly) full-steam ahead

www.semafor.com/article/07/2...

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tyler fitch @tyfi.bsky.social · Jun 4

Durham, NC’s catbirds reaching just unrealistic levels of cuteness and delight rn

tyler fitch @tyfi.bsky.social · May 21

closely related to the EU’s right to be forgotten, right?

tyler fitch @tyfi.bsky.social · May 13

To me, it means we're probably underestimating data center loads' impact on reliability. And, beyond thinking more about data center flexibility, we should be thinking about how to make our power systems better share their reserves

tyler fitch @tyfi.bsky.social · May 13

I hadn't seen this stated anywhere until I came across
@woodmac.com 's article today! Check it here: www.woodmac.com/news/opinion...

What the data center boom means for grids | Wood Mackenzie

In this first article of a two-part series, we discuss the increasing electricity demand due to the growth of data centers, particularly driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing.

www.woodmac.com

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tyler fitch @tyfi.bsky.social · May 13

Another shoe yet to drop: Data center load could really change the reliability dynamics for our systems, and AFAIK the big utilities (Southern/Duke) in the Southeast haven't re-run their reliability analyses with their shiny AI loads

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tyler fitch @tyfi.bsky.social · May 13

this may be the most excited i’ve been to see a bluesky post to date! [email protected] or [email protected] if email feels right

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tyler fitch @tyfi.bsky.social · May 13

that does seem more likely, for sure, even if IMV less likely to be in the public interest

tyler fitch @tyfi.bsky.social · May 13

would the state consider buying the assets at a discount and winding them down? the litigation would be insane but that seems like the most likely path to me

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tyler fitch @tyfi.bsky.social · May 13

this is making me wonder what regulators and state policymakers might do if they started seeing evidence of a real death spiral in the rate cases. i think there’d be a lot of warning signs before we get to actual failure to pay

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tyler fitch @tyfi.bsky.social · May 13

BREAKING: Deadlifted 3x5 at 225 on my birthday :)

tyler fitch @tyfi.bsky.social · Jan 2

Post your meathead news years' resolution: This year we're squatting and deadlifting two plates, benching our body weight and doing 10 pullups

tyler fitch @tyfi.bsky.social · May 9

Delighted to have some of our thinking about Virtual Power Plants show up in Newsweek today: newsweek.com/why-virtual-.... We're sitting on a sleeping giant of power grid resources in our cars, thermostats, and water heaters--let's tap in.

Why Virtual Power Plants are a climate solution for our divided times

Virtual Power Plants use the combined energy from rooftop solar and home battery systems to cut costs and emissions, creating bipartisan appeal.

newsweek.com

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tyler fitch @tyfi.bsky.social · May 8

yall are having a great conversation about what causes costs on a future energy system. when should and shouldn't that be 1:1 with how families pay to use it?

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tyler fitch @tyfi.bsky.social · May 7

Grateful to the FT for posting this. It shines an honest and unkind light on the rest of us.

Image of the Financial Times editorial, titled "The west's shameful silence on Gaza." An image depicts children with empty pots looking for food.

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tyler fitch @tyfi.bsky.social · May 7

I can't stop thinking about the total suffering of g_zans facilitated by the US state, the representative of our collective will. In the last few week's I've heard people ask 'what you'd do if you lived under X or Y atrocious regime.' Not sure if that question's hypothetical.

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tyler fitch @tyfi.bsky.social · Apr 18

ohhhhhhhkayyyyyyy the speedrun element of this is really setting in

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tyler fitch @tyfi.bsky.social · Apr 11

David Roberts: Hugely respect you and see you as an energy writing Obi-wan figure, but I cannot handle that many more subject lines with "What's up with <X>?"

tyler fitch @tyfi.bsky.social · Mar 11

This Podcast Is Making Me Feel Emotional About Timbaland And Missy Elliott pca.st/episode/3225...

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tyler fitch @tyfi.bsky.social · Feb 20

desire - caroline polachek