Genuine question: what sort of climate policy do you think would not have become vulnerable to similar intervention/malfeasance by fossil interests given dems electoral losses in 2024? Both executive and legislative regulatory actions are clearly similarly vulnerable.

We do need more BCA of rooftop solar, but this article doesn’t do that. They don’t model anything and cherry pick evidence without contending with the core issue: net metering of rooftop solar pays several times the wholesale value of that electricity, and that money comes from other customers bills

As far as I’m aware, they tried to subpoena him in committee, but failed. Largely because Ro Khanna didn’t show up.
www.politico.com/live-updates...

Worth noting that at least one assessment from Rhodium group finds repealing the IRA will meaningfully increase residential energy bills.

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These are totally new capabilities in energy system planning! Our methods can also be applied to almost any planning context providing the underlying model is convex.

Very excited to see what others do with this work!
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Using convexity, we enable users to create new, feasible portfolios and evaluate their performance in hundredths of a second. Users can even incorporate additional constraints or new convex objectives – allowing them to visualize portfolios that fit their desires and restrictions in a live setting.

Planning energy systems everyone can live with is difficult. We developed a method to enable people to interactively explore available options, make their own portfolios, and view the impacts of each portfolio.

And it all runs in fractions of a second on a laptop with free software!

Thanks for putting this together! I’d love to be added if possible!

Congrats Emil! Excited to work with you soon!

Can’t take EGS for granite!

Totally agree that demand side measures should be taken (generally for quality of life and sustainability, not just in substituting for transmission), but really curious how the emissions math pencils in this context.

Thanks for this! One quick q: @jessedjenkins.com showed a halving of transmission buildout loses out on 800MT/yr of gains under the IRA. Do you know if there have been studies modelling emissions impactions of the IRA with constrained transmission and large amounts of demand-side flexibility?

Oh hold on, wait. It's open source. We offer **everyone** a free licence for PyPSA. That's the point. Everyone, regardless of background and means, should be able to model the transformation of their energy systems, see what the code is doing, and modify it if need be.

github.com/pypsa/pypsa