On Saturday, batteries set a new record in ERCOT, supplying 9% of power on an evening w/ high thermal outages & low wind. Prices spiked to near the max for 5 minutes, 4,300 megawatts of storage surged onto the grid (and demand went down ~2,000 MW) & things went back to normal. (h/t @gridstatus.io

Energy folks, can you spare two characters to make sure all your energy friends can see your posts? Remember to tag your energy posts with #energysky or the emojis 🔌💡 for it to show up in the Energysky feed! & now you can catch up on the daily top #energysky posts here! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Learned some things today thanks to this good thread 🔌💡

Nathaniel William Horadam@horadam.bsky.social · 2y ago

The truth is “cutting red tape” would do next to nothing to catalyze the domestic mining sector. These projects need a combination of federal support and more favorable market conditions (more demand, higher prices, longer-term offtake commitments) to secure financing. (9/x)

A recent study finds long-duration energy storage is essential to getting more clean electricity on the grid, and could dramatically cut power prices during times of peak demand. 🔌💡 grist.org/climate/long...

How giant ‘batteries’ in the Earth could slash your electricity bills

We're wasting too much of the clean energy we generate. Reservoirs and caverns can store excess solar and wind power.

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Attention energy folks! 1) Still seeing many not using #energysky, leaving their posts unseen - please nudge them! 2) Reminder to pin the EnergySky feed to your homepage by clicking "Pin to home" here: bsky.app/profile/patr...

Lol blueskyroast.com, I feel like I need to make this powerpoint now just for giggles.

Calling all Macro Energy Systems enthusiasts. I created this macro energy systems starter pack. Featuring @jessedjenkins.com @gruberte.bsky.social @jfdecarolis.bsky.social @patricia-levi.bsky.social #energySky Let me know in the comments who I missed and I'll add them. go.bsky.app/TTnoSNL

This is gonna be cool for all the energy modeling nerds out there - happening Dec 4th @ noon Pacific. Some heavy hitters in the lineup! #energysky

Ric O'Connell@ricoconnell.bsky.social · 2y ago

Frustrated with traditional approaches to energy system planning? Want to throw your capacity expansion model out the window? Come learn from a slate of GridLab experts about some new approaches we have been cooking up - register for the webinar here. bit.ly/3YXY9PL

Energy Exemplar has got another thing coming if they think this is how to stay competitive with open source models. This just tells me that the open energy modeling community is onto something! 🔌💡

Tom Brown@nworbmot.bsky.social · 2y ago

Energy Exemplar has blocked all TU Berlin students from academic licences for their energy modelling tool PLEXOS because competitor PyPSA is developed here. While deeply shocked, we believe in turning the other cheek. So we are offering all Energy Exemplar employees a free licence for PyPSA.

Filed in Satisfying Saturdays: These lil cups nest so well 🥹 and boring holes is so fun. Just gotta decide on the lid strategy now. 🤔 Weekend ceramics time is good for the soul

Clicking thru 2 months of reposts of this meme traveling through different communities was both entertaining and totally worth it for this unfortunately relatable finale 😂🙃

GZY ⍼ גז"י@gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 2y ago

Optimist: the cup is 1/2 full Pessimist: the cup is 1/2 empty Excel: the cup is January 2nd

I need a feed that is just this starter pack STAT Please tell me there’s a nontedious way to do this…

ceej@ceej.online · 2y ago

I made a starter pack of people who made a post so good I showed my wife. my wife is normal so I have to physically show her posts on here. I'll update this list every time someone makes a post so good I show it to my wife

Hey ppl of #energysky : there's been issues lately with properly-tagged 🔌💡 posts not showing up in the feed. I'm hoping it has to do with site growing pains. Working on it! I know it's important that this feed works for all of us :D If you see this issue, please tag me w deets of how you posted

Finally removed the Hellthread filter from my skyfeed settings for energysky... feeling nostalgic haha

Hey @skyfeed.app, users of the EnergySky feed I maintain have been reporting that it seems to be many posts with the correct tags - it should include every post with 'energysky' (case insensitive) or '🔌💡', but @gregor.us has been running some tests that aren't getting picked up. Any ideas? 🙏

Gregor Macdonald @gregor.us · 2y ago

Conclusions so far (and I earlier sent a trouble ticket to bsky help desk). 1. posts sent from deck.blue will never reach the #energysky feed. 2. posts sent from the bsky app or web can reach the feed, but often don't. HTH.

MA’s Clean Energy Bill, passed late last week, has a great bit for the big batteries crowd: a procurement mandate for 5,000 MW of energy storage by 2030, 750 MW of which must be long duration storage (defined as 10-24 hours) and 750 MW of which must be multi-day storage (defined as 24+ hours) 🔌💡

New favorite feed. First post rn is penguins chasing a butterfly. Happy Friday!! bsky.app/profile/did:...

As an Indian, as someone who lived in Egypt, and who has, modestly, remained committed to my politics despite that, here are my rules for living under fascist regimes: 1) Focus on organizational structure. 1/

the reason we’ve finally fully made it as an app is that even the people who are posting about how much Bluesky sucks are doing it on Bluesky now

I wrote this a few days ago — it’s a busy week so I didn’t do much editing, but people are finding it very handy in getting their Bluesky groove on. If you have friends who need some help or you haven’t figured things out yet, hope it helps:

Bluesky for Beginners

Very Basic Tips on Getting Going

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I wish everyone who talked about how hard it is to make high speed rail profitable also talked about how hard it is to make interstate highways profitable.

This looks super cool, I'd bet many folks on #energysky would find this interesting & useful -- myself included!

9 energy-climate starter packs: 1)Power go.bsky.app/RwCBCab 2)Media go.bsky.app/2TNd1Ya 3)Solutions go.bsky.app/Aa1sErQ 4)Science go.bsky.app/7Mbnoge 5)Legal go.bsky.app/R4ZUdPE 6)Women go.bsky.app/AGCURBf 7)Nuclear go.bsky.app/5EJY58V 8)EVs go.bsky.app/R4ZUdPE 9)Southeast go.bsky.app/AZ6Xw1U

We're back, baby! Very excited to see so many folks hopping on the bsky train Lists are one of the things that make bsky a joy to use -- I obviously recommend EnergySky but also highly rec finding other lists that make you smile! And don't forget: we can create kinder & more joyful norms here :D

One of these days I'll write up my own welcome guide for folks... But for one tip at least, add this to your feeds! It aggregates posts with "EnergySky" or 🔌💡 in them. Then, include one of those in posts you want to show up in the feed. Hashtags do work, but they're less common around here.

California's system of government is dysfunctional in so many ways, but the state really does excel in making it easy to vote. It's a piece of cake here! There's no excuse not to do it! Go vote if you haven't already!!

We're working on a grant to work with students primarily *not* at R1 schools, working on the energy transition, helping to get them comfortable with basic software engineering & data management. What less well known / more accessible schools should we be reaching out to? 🔌💡

Have you ever thought about how ‘Thinking about you’ and ‘thinking of you’ have such different valences? Either you’re talking to your sweetie or sending your condolences! English is wild amirite

Inspired by the Climate Stripes, here are the Renewable Stripes! They show the change over 10 years in renewables' share of Ireland's electricity generation. A greener shade indicates more renewables. More at www.greencollective.io/post/renewab... and we wish you a Happy Christmas! energysky 🔌💡