Abe Scarr
@abescarr.bsky.social
Illinois PIRG director
PIRG Energy and Utilities Program director
PIRG Energy and Utilities Program director
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This is a renewable motion, so the sponsor can call it again. We'll see.
October 31, 2025 at 3:04 AM
This is a renewable motion, so the sponsor can call it again. We'll see.
Reposted by Abe Scarr
3. Main takeaways, continued:
- Retail electricity prices, and price increases, are mostly about spending on poles and wires, not energy supply
- Renewables don't correlate with higher prices, but dependence on natural gas pretty clearly does
- Retail electricity prices, and price increases, are mostly about spending on poles and wires, not energy supply
- Renewables don't correlate with higher prices, but dependence on natural gas pretty clearly does
October 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
3. Main takeaways, continued:
- Retail electricity prices, and price increases, are mostly about spending on poles and wires, not energy supply
- Renewables don't correlate with higher prices, but dependence on natural gas pretty clearly does
- Retail electricity prices, and price increases, are mostly about spending on poles and wires, not energy supply
- Renewables don't correlate with higher prices, but dependence on natural gas pretty clearly does
Reposted by Abe Scarr
Speaking of turning the clock back ... at least 16 GW of old, dirty power plants have had their retirement delayed due to forecasts of rising power demand, including from data centers.
@frontiergroup.bsky.social's Quentin Good and Kylie Hanson name the names here: frontiergroup.org/articles/dat...
@frontiergroup.bsky.social's Quentin Good and Kylie Hanson name the names here: frontiergroup.org/articles/dat...
Data center energy use is giving old, dirty power plants a new lease on life
The closures of 34 fossil fuel generators at 15 power plants have been postponed, in part to fuel the U.S. data center boom.
frontiergroup.org
October 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Speaking of turning the clock back ... at least 16 GW of old, dirty power plants have had their retirement delayed due to forecasts of rising power demand, including from data centers.
@frontiergroup.bsky.social's Quentin Good and Kylie Hanson name the names here: frontiergroup.org/articles/dat...
@frontiergroup.bsky.social's Quentin Good and Kylie Hanson name the names here: frontiergroup.org/articles/dat...