🚨 🚨 ICYMI 🚨 🚨 We released our latest queue dataset! Check it out here: emp.lbl.gov/publications... Thread below with some of the highlights 👇️ 👇️ Thanks to the @berkeleylabemp.bsky.social team (Joe Rand, Anna Cheyette, Ryan Wiser, Jo Seel) and Interconnection.FYI

⚡️ ICYMI -- released a report last week on utility distribution costs! ⚡️ Our Goal: help stakeholders understand the scope, scale, and drivers of recent increases in IOU expenditures on local distribution power grids: emp.lbl.gov/publications... thread 👇️ 👇️ 👇️

Electricity trades across regions can save money, but market inefficiencies can erode those savings. A new study from @BerkeleyLab finds $1.23 billion a year in gross savings were offset by $551 million of uneconomic transactions. 🧵 🔌 💡 1/x

⚡️ New LBNL article out on interregional electric transmission ⚡️ We explore how interregional transmission has been operated in the U.S. (2014 – 2023) by tracking interregional trade and market prices. Open access, in The Energy Journal: doi.org/10.1177/0195... 🧵 👇️

Interregional Electricity Transmission in the United States: Realized Savings and Opportunities for Increased Value, 2014 to 2023 - Leila Safavi, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, Ryan Wiser, 2025

Interregional electricity trade in the United States reduces total energy costs, but falls short of maximizing the economic potential of existing transmission i...

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🔌 New Journal Article Alert 🔌 Backup power or bill savings? How electricity tariffs impact residential solar-plus-storage usage in the United States I'm happy to announce has recently been published, open-access, in Utilities Policy 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

💡 New Transmission Paper alert 💡 “Electric transmission value and its drivers in United States power markets” just went live in Nature Communications! Kudos especially to Julie Mulvaney Kemp for getting this work to the finish line. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

⚡ 🔌ICYMI a new article has been published in Joule regarding interconnection hurdles ⚡ 🔌 Check out the article below 👇👇 “Grid connection barriers to renewable energy deployment in the United States." https://buff.ly/3WuXOng

Great thread on what’s happening in the UK on queue reform, for those who might have been closely following our work at @berkeleylabemp.bsky.social on US issues but would like to hear some of the parallels across the globe!

Stephen Jarvis@stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 2y ago

At the airport and have managed to look through the UK government’s new plans for hitting their ambitious Clean Power 2030 targets. @carbonbrief.org have already put out a nice summary, so instead here’s a thread on one of the core issues in more detail – *fixing the grid connection queue*🔌💡(1/20) 🧵

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The FERC complaint against PJM filed by consumer advocates is 🔥. Apropos of the FERC interconnection proceeding, Montalvo's affidavit notes: "High prices cannot bring new generation into the market more quickly than it can be interconnected[.]" Hard to argue!🔌💡 elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/fil...

Kind of a big deal. This week, FERC approved filings from MISO and SPP that will finance construction of high-voltage transmission to enable the connection of 30 GW of wind, solar, and storage. Yet, many clean energy developers opposed the plan - 🔌💡 elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/fil...

🧵 How did Texas interconnect ~70% more capacity than any US market btwn 2021-2023? The answer explains, in part, why 25 parties just filed w/ FERC supporting streamlined interconnection service (ERIS), with no clear opposition—signaling a promising area for bipartisan reform. (1/15) #EnergySky