"Do all of the ants know each other?" -5 year old, just asking a question
Ari Peskoe
@aripeskoe.bsky.social
Director of the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard Law.
These are the best players in the world. They should keep playing. An NHL playoff game went to 5 overtime periods in 2020! Everyone survived.
Incredible answer from KAT about not being nervous before game one but having a calmness that he felt came from his Mom
BREAKING: A group of states led by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social sued the Trump administration over its deal with TotalEnergies to buy back two offshore wind leases worth nearly $1B. Here’s @emilypont.bsky.social with the details: heatmap.news/energy/total...
New York Just Filed the First Major Challenge to Trump’s TotalEnergies Deal
Attorney General Letitia James leads a group of states suing the administration’s move to buy back two offshore wind leases.
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Victim of the Massachusetts Sonic Boom of 2026. This lil guy fell off a shelf, losing a foot. He can no longer stand under his own power and will be euthanized.
I'm going to collect a few reactions to this thread for comment, as it's an instructive moment in the politics of climate science (however niche). 🧵
Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com@revkin.bsky.social · 3mo agoNo matter what do you think of his craziness, did you ever think you’d see any president post about a CO2 emissions scenario?
No. Liberty Utilities -- which delivers electricity to 49,000 homes and businesses in the Lake Tahoe area -- needs to find a new supplier. Liberty knew this was coming. It is conducting an RFP. Everything will be fine. But yes, NV Energy wants to provide the energy it generates to data centers.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3mo ago“Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents are being told to find a new power provider because the grid is being re-routed to A.I. data centers.”
My paper on utility regulation with Karl Dunkle Werner is now published in @jpube.bsky.social. We examine whether energy utility companies have been allowed to earn excess profits and what the implications are for both utility investment incentives and consumer costs. (1/6) 🧵 🔌💡
Rate of return regulation revisited
Utility companies recover their capital costs through regulator-approved rates of return. Using a comprehensive database of utility rate cases, we fin…
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FTC is co-hosting an event on the state of consumer finance at George Mason's law school. There are layers here. 1) This is ostensibly announcing a CFPB rpt. But I guess now that CFPB is basically shut down, the FTC is...taking over consumer finance? ... www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
FTC to Co-Host Workshop on Financial Services with Institute for Consumer Financial Choice on May 14-15
The Federal Trade Commission will co-host a workshop on May 14-15, 2026, with George Mason University Law School’s Institute for Consumer Financial Choice (ICFC) focusing on developments in the fin
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Just learned that there is a "North American Wood Pole Council." It promotes "up-to-date scientific and economic information" about wood utility poles. "Wood poles are part of our overall culture." It has a coloring book. woodpoles.org
Wood Utility Poles – Wood That Lasts
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The Future of Heat Initiative is hiring. If you're a lawyer who wants to make waves with state utility commissions -- or if you know a worthy lawyer who might be interested -- go ahead and check out the posting: thefutureofheat.com/s/Regulatory...
Nice piece by @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social in the NYT. Draws readers in by leading with AI data centers (timely, newsworthy, hot) but then pivots to regional transmission governance, a topic no one reads about by choice. Also has fancy graphics. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Why Is Your Electric Bill Going Up? Blame the Broken Grid.
Our grid is too old and our supply of electricity too small. If we don’t meet this moment, we will face an impoverished future.
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Coincidence that I filed a comment in this docket yesterday and then FERC announces the very next day that it's taking action? Yes. Yes it is.
FERC@ferc.gov · 4mo ago☀️📅 Big news from @ferc.gov! We’re moving forward on the Large Load Interconnection Docket with decisive action coming this June. Stay tuned—action is on the way! 🔗 www.ferc.gov/news-events/...
I have two pieces today on how a 1990s FERC policy intended to spur competitive markets is being understood to prevent data centers from covering their transmission costs. FERC Comment: elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/fil... UtilityDive: www.utilitydive.com/news/ferc-tr...
An outdated FERC policy is undermining the White House’s ratepayer protection pledge
FERC should revisit its transmission pricing policy and require utilities to assign the full costs of service to power-hungry data centers, writes Harvard’s Ari Peskoe.
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I'm tracking 5 cases filed under Executive Order 14260: Protecting American Energy from State Overreach. What am I missing? -VT and NY climate superfund laws -HI and MI (dismissed) to prevent filing complaints against fossil fuel cos. -Morris Township, NJ ban on fossil fuels in new buildings
What should I do in the Bay area in April with kids 11 and 6? Thank you!
youtu.be/4BPU5mKipNo?... Was listening to They Might be Giants for Kids this weekend while driving with the fam, and now this worm is firmly lodged in my ear.
They Might Be Giants - Electric Car - Official Music Video
YouTube video by Disney Music
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I just noticed that the domain wecansolveit.org is up for sale -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi6n...
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I regret my decision to watch the White House / Big Tech press conference about their "ratepayer protection pledge." The highlight was when he went off-script and admitted that this is all about providing "PR help" to Big Tech companies.
Who's excited to read more briefs today about FERC Order No 1920?
a close up of a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and a green jacket .
ALT: a close up of a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and a green jacket .
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The cost of datacenters is getting expensive. Therefore I will build them on the Moon. Where I'll also be building my satellites. That I'll be yeeting into Earth's orbit with a giant space catapult. Because I'm all about low cost.
I will never understand the fascination with coal. who are you, thomas the tank engine?
In Ep. 269, @aripeskoe.bsky.social rejoins us to review Trump’s attacks on the energy transition in the US and explore the legal options for defending it. Wind farms, solar farms, coal plants, regulations,Venezuela, UN climate bodies, oh my! xenetwork.org/ets/episodes...
[Episode #269] – Trump's War on the Energy Transition | The Energy Transition Show
Can the energy transition in the US survive President Trump’s attacks on it?
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I filed a brief for the Organization of PJM States (OPSI) in defense of FERC Order No 1920, which requires long-term regional transmission planning. The brief emphasizes that protecting consumers requires coordinated fed-state action. It's free! statepowerproject.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
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The Trump admin’s push to force-run aging coal plants has entered a new phase: ordering two broken-down coal units in Indiana and Colorado that could take months and millions of dollars to bring back online to run under 90-day emergency declarations: www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos... #energysky
Trump admin’s must-run orders put broken-down coal plants in a bind
Utilities are already paying to keep aging coal plants open under DOE emergency orders. New demands to revive nonfunctioning units add costs and legal…
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Do you wish you could spend New Years reading 6 newly filed briefs about federal/state responsibilities over resource adequacy? Do you also want to learn why DOE's orders keeping coal plants open are very illegal? OK, this is for you - statepowerproject.org/challenges-t...
Challenges to DOE 202(c) Orders
Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act empowers the Secretary of Energy to order “temporary connections” of generation and transmission in response to a war or an emergency that causes…
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One of my most delightful academic experiences this semester was our reading seminar on infrastructure. Here were the ground rules: 1. we all read 12 of 15 books new to us 2. no laptops or phones 3. read widely bc of our polycrises Reading books was just great. Here's what we read and reactions:
Market inefficiency? Outdated property right? Neglect? A shiny plaque at my local library notes that this dilapidated reading bench is sponsored by a bank that was merged out of existence in 1988.
