Bev Bendix
@bevbendix.bsky.social
Transmission, & siting and permitting @RMI. Facilitator, analyst, might have opinions about your data viz. I dream of powder days.
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1/x 🧵 🔌💡 #Greensky. Hey climate peeps! Here’s a local victory to celebrate, and some lessons from it. Last night, the Town of Poughkeepsie, NY, voted to overturn its 18-month moratorium (6 months, renewed twice) on grid-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS).
September 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
1/x 🧵 🔌💡 #Greensky. Hey climate peeps! Here’s a local victory to celebrate, and some lessons from it. Last night, the Town of Poughkeepsie, NY, voted to overturn its 18-month moratorium (6 months, renewed twice) on grid-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS).
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Trump is closing all four climate observatory stations in Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, and Antartica. Because you can't have high CO2 levels if you don't *measure* CO2 levels.
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After 7 Decades of Measurements From a Peak in Hawaii, Trump’s Budget Would End Them
www.nytimes.com
July 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Trump is closing all four climate observatory stations in Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, and Antartica. Because you can't have high CO2 levels if you don't *measure* CO2 levels.
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Does anyone know the percent of renewable energy projects that need any level of federal permitting, not just NEPA?
Wondering how far this promise to deny projects basic permits goes (www.politico.com/live-updates...)
Wondering how far this promise to deny projects basic permits goes (www.politico.com/live-updates...)
Conservatives say Trump won their megabill votes by promising crackdown on renewable energy credits
"We believe we're going to get 90-plus percent of all future projects terminated," Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said.
www.politico.com
July 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Does anyone know the percent of renewable energy projects that need any level of federal permitting, not just NEPA?
Wondering how far this promise to deny projects basic permits goes (www.politico.com/live-updates...)
Wondering how far this promise to deny projects basic permits goes (www.politico.com/live-updates...)
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The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡
June 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡
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Earth is losing clouds — fast.
Storm zones have shrunk by up to 3% per decade.
That’s helping drive record-breaking heat.
New NASA-led research featuring @Weather21C shows how less cloud = more warming.
Read more: 21centuryweather.org.au/new-study-sh...
#ClimateScience #GlobalWarming #CloudCover
Storm zones have shrunk by up to 3% per decade.
That’s helping drive record-breaking heat.
New NASA-led research featuring @Weather21C shows how less cloud = more warming.
Read more: 21centuryweather.org.au/new-study-sh...
#ClimateScience #GlobalWarming #CloudCover
New study shows cloud loss contributing to record-breaking temperatures
NASA-led study shows Earth’s cloud cover is shrinking, amplifying warming. Fewer clouds mean more heat absorbed and record temperatures worldwide.
21centuryweather.org.au
June 26, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Earth is losing clouds — fast.
Storm zones have shrunk by up to 3% per decade.
That’s helping drive record-breaking heat.
New NASA-led research featuring @Weather21C shows how less cloud = more warming.
Read more: 21centuryweather.org.au/new-study-sh...
#ClimateScience #GlobalWarming #CloudCover
Storm zones have shrunk by up to 3% per decade.
That’s helping drive record-breaking heat.
New NASA-led research featuring @Weather21C shows how less cloud = more warming.
Read more: 21centuryweather.org.au/new-study-sh...
#ClimateScience #GlobalWarming #CloudCover
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The Trump administration abruptly laid off the entire staff running a $4.1 billion program to help low-income households across the U.S. pay their heating and cooling bills.
Entire Staff Is Fired at LIHEAP
The move threatens to paralyze the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps to offset high utility bills for roughly 6.2 million people nationwide.
www.nytimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The Trump administration abruptly laid off the entire staff running a $4.1 billion program to help low-income households across the U.S. pay their heating and cooling bills.
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Ohhhh okay yeah sure of course
March 7, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Ohhhh okay yeah sure of course
Proud to be a co-author on this one!
#energysky Do large-scale transmission investments pay off for ratepayers? Our new @rockymtninst.bsky.social report provides a clear answer: YES— large-scale transmission projects deliver significant savings for American consumers and businesses: rmi.org/insight/high... (1/8)🧵
High Voltage, High Reward Transmission - RMI
Large-scale transmission projects deliver significant cost savings to American consumers and businesses.
rmi.org
February 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Proud to be a co-author on this one!
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And you thought there were interconnection delays before!
Bonneville Power Administration, Northwest’s largest transmission grid operator letting go of 600 workers as part of Trumps cuts www.oregonlive.com/environment/...
At least 600 workers to leave BPA, spurring concerns about transmission grid
The Bonneville Power Administration, the region’s largest transmission grid operator, will lose at least 600 workers under President Donald Trump’s sweeping efforts to reduce the federal workforce.
www.oregonlive.com
February 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
And you thought there were interconnection delays before!
A birdie told me that NREL tools (REEDS, DGEN, REV, etc) and datasets (wind toolkit, ATB, etc) are soon to disappear. Download and clone. EIA data might be next.
February 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
A birdie told me that NREL tools (REEDS, DGEN, REV, etc) and datasets (wind toolkit, ATB, etc) are soon to disappear. Download and clone. EIA data might be next.
Another reason to avoid that other platform. A while back a graphic video of a murder popped up on my feed. Today I needed something for work, ended up on the feed, and voila a disturbing porn-like video. Pls less professional content posted there so we can all avoid it. Wish our orgs all switched.
February 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Another reason to avoid that other platform. A while back a graphic video of a murder popped up on my feed. Today I needed something for work, ended up on the feed, and voila a disturbing porn-like video. Pls less professional content posted there so we can all avoid it. Wish our orgs all switched.
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saw this circulating on Instagram the other day and I can’t stop thinking about it. “Who cares anymore what particular knot they used in the binding?” is such a perfectly expressed repudiation of the “economic anxiety” framing
February 7, 2025 at 3:22 AM
saw this circulating on Instagram the other day and I can’t stop thinking about it. “Who cares anymore what particular knot they used in the binding?” is such a perfectly expressed repudiation of the “economic anxiety” framing
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Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share
Don't let science be hidden
Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share
Don't let science be hidden
February 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share
Don't let science be hidden
Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share
Don't let science be hidden
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#EnergySky RMI's Order 1920 fact sheet has now been updated with information on Order 1920-A! Check it out at the link below ⤵️
rmi.org/insight/unde...
rmi.org/insight/unde...
December 6, 2024 at 5:28 PM
#EnergySky RMI's Order 1920 fact sheet has now been updated with information on Order 1920-A! Check it out at the link below ⤵️
rmi.org/insight/unde...
rmi.org/insight/unde...
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Amtrak welcomed 32.8 million passengers on the passenger rail system, a 15% increase from the previous year. Customers can look forward to rail service improvements in 2025 with billions in investments.
More people are riding Amtrak than ever before, and improvements are on the way | CNN
Amtrak welcomed 32.8 million passengers on the passenger rail system, a 15% increase from the previous year. Customers can look forward to rail service improvements in 2025 with billions in investment...
cnn.it
December 4, 2024 at 1:08 AM
Amtrak welcomed 32.8 million passengers on the passenger rail system, a 15% increase from the previous year. Customers can look forward to rail service improvements in 2025 with billions in investments.
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one thing you gain from reading in detail about the actual operations of a presidential administration is a recognition that even the most competent and dedicated political staff with the best leadership struggles to bend the federal bureaucracy in its direction
November 19, 2024 at 4:16 AM
one thing you gain from reading in detail about the actual operations of a presidential administration is a recognition that even the most competent and dedicated political staff with the best leadership struggles to bend the federal bureaucracy in its direction
Proud of our 4 year for helping us sing the praises of safety of an induction cooktop.
We did some simple gut check math. Prob has emissions benefit with CO’s current grid. We really did it for the non-climate benefits; safety and indoor air quality.
LOL from his parent-teacher report:
We did some simple gut check math. Prob has emissions benefit with CO’s current grid. We really did it for the non-climate benefits; safety and indoor air quality.
LOL from his parent-teacher report:
November 19, 2024 at 4:52 AM
Proud of our 4 year for helping us sing the praises of safety of an induction cooktop.
We did some simple gut check math. Prob has emissions benefit with CO’s current grid. We really did it for the non-climate benefits; safety and indoor air quality.
LOL from his parent-teacher report:
We did some simple gut check math. Prob has emissions benefit with CO’s current grid. We really did it for the non-climate benefits; safety and indoor air quality.
LOL from his parent-teacher report: