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Drew Smithee
@drewsmithee.bsky.social
Former IRP, Current lurker. Here to check out the kinder, quieter, #EnergyTwitter, that's been missing from my life lately. 🔌💡
Nevermind. I see you've been busy. Congrats!
April 29, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Pretty much a chemical plant that also generates heat and power at this point.
March 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I mean there's always the investment profile angle. New capital to earn a return on, then lower O&M overheads you don't have to carry. I think thats an easier sell in a wash than a landslide.

Idk, I definitely believe in the death by 1000 cuts theory. You're just not going back on the first 990 now
March 18, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Hot rocks make solar panel go brrrr
March 18, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Eh, I'd say it's "other policy". Take away FGD, SCR, cooling water, MATS, and ash handling and you're pretty much left with half a combined cycle and a bulldozer.

We're never going back, but the boiling water part could still be cheap.
March 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Noooo. I was on the short list for a helicopter ride to do some routing a few years ago but we ended up flying drones instead.
March 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Reposted by Drew Smithee
3/ Advocates of networked geothermal say the model is still viable. (Two other pilots in Mass are moving ahead. One, in fact, is already built and collecting data in its first heating season)

The whole point of pilot projects is to learn, they say
February 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
February 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Yeah but it turns for me now. And that's kind of cool.
January 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
*for the utility to prescribe exactly as much risk as the PUC directs them too*
December 23, 2024 at 1:12 AM
And to be fair. I am not a trader or a scheduler. I would like to be smarter about those things. But I'm not.

I'm a fundamentals guy and an engineer that gives those two their bookends.
December 4, 2024 at 2:34 AM
The state utility commission encourages me to not be a degenerate gambler 🤷‍♂️
December 4, 2024 at 2:26 AM
I’m just. D.O.U.G.
December 4, 2024 at 2:00 AM
So I’ve been talking on the other app and being educated. I know you can trade anything, I didn’t realize capacity was as liquid as it is.

It’s like gold to an LDC, never enough.

So yeah tradeable product, do it. But I’ve never owned extra. Lol
December 4, 2024 at 1:59 AM