Quentin Watkins

@quentinwatkins.bsky.social

Energy Strategy & Planning | Senior Advisor at encoord | clean energy strategy and policy expert | electrification & decarbonization | former @scottmadden

1/ 🚨New study alert!🚨 🔌💡 My DukeU colleagues and I just released a 1st-of-kind study on how the US grid could integrate up to 100 gigawatts of data centers w/out major new infrastructure, provided modest load flexibility (0.5%/yr). AI load growth can be managed faster, cheaper, & cleaner. 🧵👇

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A new study by @tnorris.bsky.social found a way to power the AI boom without building a bunch of new gas plants. The results “buy us time” to figure out what Deepseek means and for nuclear to catch up to growing demand needs. kaufman.substack.com/p/study-find...

Study finds a way to power the AI boom without a bunch of new gas plants

New research could buy us time to see what Deepseek means and what new nuclear plants can do.

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Wow. Cross-regional planning is working? MISO's and SPP's novel approach to joint planning focused on backbone projects they say will unlock 28 GW of capacity and reduce curtailments in a highly congested region. 🔌💡

RTO Insider@rtoinsider.bsky.social · 2y ago

FERC on Nov. 13 approved tariff revisions and modifications to the joint operating agreement between MISO and SPP that will enshrine a structural and cost-allocation framework for the five 345-kV projects. #energysky🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/cjfU50U7Apw Writer: Tom Kleckner