Mackay
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Mackay
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Energy. Political economy. Tech. Finance. Nature. Etc.
Wow!
Excited to see this work with Galen Hall, @prof-b-t.bsky.social and Trevor Culhane in print in SSPQ. (1/2)
December 3, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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NERC quietly filed the final Interregional Transfer Capability Study (ITCS) with FERC yesterday.

An additional 35GW of transfer capability across the United States was identified as being beneficial for reliability... shocker.

Comments at FERC are open for 60 days and links below.
December 3, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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Updating one of my perennial charts. California utility-scale solar begain ~5 years before Texas, but Texas is growing about four years faster than California did.
Different markets, different solar resource, a different world of tech in 2007 vs 2012 (not to mention today) but still, striking
December 2, 2024 at 11:59 AM
A welcome addition. Many years of cutting edge journalism.
Los Angeles prosecutors have filed criminal charges against Phillips 66, alleging two massive instances of illegally dumping contaminated wastewater from the company's South Bay oil refinery into the county sewer system: www.latimes.com/environment/...
November 22, 2024 at 10:46 PM
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A few years ago I crowdsourced a climate & energy podcast directory via Twitter & Canary. The pod landscape has shifted a lot since then, and I wanted to take a stab at a Blue Sky version.

So, I present a Climate & Clean Energy Podcast Host starter pack.

Who is missing??
go.bsky.app/HuZTREJ
November 20, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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This year's Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics Workshop for Regulators starts tomorrow. Here's my articulation of the intellectual framework that has made our workshop so highly valued for 20 years. 📉📈 and 🔌💡

knowledgeproblem.substack.com/p/the-instit...
The Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics
Intellectual foundations for regulatory institutions compatible with dynamism
knowledgeproblem.substack.com
September 26, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Massachusetts passed a new climate bill last week that includes, among many other things, reforms to accelerate infrastructure siting pv-magazine-usa.com/2024/11/15/m...
Massachusetts House passes climate bill, setting example for other states to follow
The Massachusetts bill includes siting reform, which will help speed the buildout of solar and other clean energy technologies.
pv-magazine-usa.com
November 17, 2024 at 1:15 PM