ICYMI heatmap journalism seems to have stopped a data center and gas fired power plant
Matt Zeitlin@zeitlin.bsky.social · 2d agobig @jael.bsky.social scoop: developer clearway isn't going forward with its data center and gas plant proposal (that had already been swapped out for an existing solar proposal) heatmap.news/sparks/clear...
big @jael.bsky.social scoop: developer clearway isn't going forward with its data center and gas plant proposal (that had already been swapped out for an existing solar proposal) heatmap.news/sparks/clear...
Scoop: Clearway Cancels Plan to Swap Solar Farm for Data Center and Gas Plant
The energy developer is backing off after a Heatmap report.
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Time to offer this seminar again I see.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d agothere are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5
oil companies posted huge profits this past quarter, does this means investors are excited about the oil business? is oil "back"? well....yes and no heatmap.news/energy/chevr...
3 Takeaways from a Blowout Quarter for Oil Companies
Oil demand is actually falling — for now.
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Big scoop: The solar permitting freeze is so bad a renewables developer — Clearway — asked Trump if they can swap an unpermitted solar farm in Nevada for a data center and gas power plant instead. My latest for @heatmap.news
Scoop: Clearway Asks Trump to Swap Solar Farm for Data Center and Gas Plant
The large renewables developer changes tack “in response to federal energy objectives.”
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An extremely well-deserved victory lap from Bishop: The “index crossed into TACO territory on Wednesday and shot through its three key precedents on Thursday,” with pivot said to begin “after President Trump’s ‘mindset started to change on Thursday evening’”
Luke Kawa@ljkawa.bsky.social · 2w agoSignum Global’s Andrew Bishop developed a “Hormuz TACO Index” (based on Brent, 10Y UST yields, Hormuz crossings & S&P 500) to map out presidential pivot points Conclusion: “extrapolating linearly would suggest that a TACO could happen as early as 7/22 and ‘should’ happen no later than 7/30”
In recent years, only one US electricity market has consistently added new generation while keeping costs low. It’s also added more new power plants (and solar!) than anyone else. A new bill from @heinrich.senate.gov would require other grids to adopt its approach: heatmap.news/daily/heinri...
Scoop: A Key Democrat Wants to Break America’s Worst Energy Bottleneck
Senator Martin Heinrich’s bill, which makes it easier to connect new power plants to the grid, is an encouraging sign for bipartisan permitting reform.
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if you read between the lines of the hochul data center moratorium, she's implemented something less strict than what the legislature wanted and could, in a year, lead to a win-win with data center and renewable developers...maybe heatmap.news/politics/hoc...
New York Governor Kathy Hochul Is Walking a Narrow Lane on Data Centers
Can she appease AI skeptics, economic development advocates, and renewables boosters?
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is hochul bowing to leftists in the state legislature or aligning stakeholders behind her own vision of (especially upstate) economic development....YES! heatmap.news/politics/hoc...
New York Governor Kathy Hochul Is Walking a Narrow Lane on Data Centers
Can she appease AI skeptics, economic development advocates, and renewables boosters?
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all energy generation is getting more expensive in LCOE terms and it's even hitting gas....in part because demand is so high heatmap.news/energy/lazar...
Solar Is Still Pretty Cheap — But Everyone Wants Natural Gas
Five takeaways from the latest Lazard Levelized Cost of Energy report.
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if new york wants to meaningfully decarbonize by 2030, it's not going to be through more mega generation or transmission projects, it's going to be through efficiency and local generation — maybe one day homeowners will be able to install batteries! heatmap.news/energy/new-y...
New York City’s Climate Progress Has Hit a Wall
The July 4 heat wave showed just how far the metropolis has to go to reach its decarbonization goals.
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New York is still using its peaker fleet on hot days, it only has one new big clean energy project coming online relatively soon, its Quebec transmission line keeps on shutting down, and it's impossible to install a residential battery heatmap.news/energy/new-y...
New York City’s Climate Progress Has Hit a Wall
The July 4 heat wave showed just how far the metropolis has to go to reach its decarbonization goals.
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Two years ago governor Phil Murphy was telling data center developers New Jersey was open for business — and tax credits ! — two years and $250 million for CoreWeave later, New Jersey lawmakers are scrapping the credit heatmap.news/politics/new...
New Jersey Lawmakers Just Nixed a 2-Year-Old Data Center Tax Credit
The bill is part of a package now sitting on Governor Mikie Sherrill’s desk.
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Indiana has it all when it comes to energy policy: a data center boom, local backlash, utility price hikes, and a republican governor getting mad at the utility and the regulators heatmap.news/politics/mik...
Indiana’s Governor Is on the Energy Warpath
Republican Mike Braun loves data centers but hates electricity price increases.
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real stancilheads have always known that he is first and foremost an urban studies guy
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last mo.Are we ready to talk about how gentrification is mostly good
Data center moratoria are moving closer and closer to the center of the Democratic party. AOC, Bernie, the New York state legislature and now the ranking member on the energy and commerce committee heatmap.news/politics/pal...
Key House Democrat Calls for a National Data Center Moratorium
New Jersey’s Frank Pallone, ranking member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, says “this simply cannot continue.”
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Shaggy - It Wasn't Me
ALT: Shaggy - It Wasn't Me
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Matt Zeitlin@zeitlin.bsky.social · last mo.It's possible to imagine the Ratepayer Protection Act is passed or the Pledge continues. Costs continue to rise, people continue to be upset and hyperscalers and their allies in government point to the pledge and say "well, it's not *our* fault" heatmap.news/politics/rat...
Big tech comapnies are at least open — if not outright supportive — of bills and pledges that could put them on the hook for billions of dollars of costs. Why? heatmap.news/politics/rat...
Will the Ratepayer Protection Act Protect Ratepayers or Big Tech?
Hyperscalers might be paying billions to avoid blame for rising electricity prices.
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FERC basically told electricity markets "you've been reading all the same interconnection reform proposals we have, so you have two months to show you're actually doing them" heatmap.news/energy/ferc-...
FERC Has a New Plan for Data Centers
But there’s still plenty of room for regional grid operators to set their own rules.
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great story by @emilypont.bsky.social about anthropic finally getting involved in the climate discussion while also likely having a very carbon intensive energy footprint heatmap.news/climate/anth...
Anthropic Is Buying Carbon Removal — But Not Clean Power
That may be not be the case for long, though, as the AI company poaches energy talent from Google, Meta, the DOE, and others.
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Trump said “Let the oil flow!” But that’s easier said than done. Here’s @zeitlin.bsky.social on what has to happen before the energy market returns to normal: heatmap.news/energy/strai...
It’ll Be a Long Time Before the Strait of Hormuz Returns to Normal
And it’ll take energy markets even longer.
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SpaceX is going to start trading in like half an hour, so you might be wondering...what's it like to work for Elon Musk? heatmap.news/climate-tech...
These 8 Executives Told Us What It’s Like Working for Elon Musk
As SPCX hits the Nasdaq, here’s some more from our Musk Mafia survey.
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The perfect obit headline for this particular climate denier, who knew better but preferred to live a lie heatmap.news/daily/lee-raymond
Everywhere you look in climate tech there’s a former Tesla or SpaceX doing something cool. @zeitlin.bsky.social and @emilypont.bsky.social surveyed the Musk Mafia for their takes on how the experience shaped them and what it was like working for Elon: heatmap.news/climate-tech...
Elon Musk’s Climate Tech Mafia
SpaceX and Tesla have produced executives and founders across the clean energy world. Here’s what they had to say about working for their former boss.
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Peter Hubbard’s dark horse election to Georgia’s PSC last year is one of those things folks may never fully appreciate. He’ll be a hugely important energy leader in the Southeast moving forward. Great to see @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social sit down with him here. 🔌💡 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
The Other, Other Big Race in Georgia This Year
Podcast Episode · Shift Key with Robinson Meyer · June 11 · 37m
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enriched uranium, recycled uranium, power electronics, fusion power, electric boats. the founders and executives working on this stuff all worked at tesla and...spacex (?). we talked to a dozen of them about what they learned in the elonverse heatmap.news/climate-tech...
Elon Musk’s Climate Tech Mafia
SpaceX and Tesla have produced executives and founders across the clean energy world. Here’s what they had to say about working for their former boss.
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these were the first two posts i got the last time i opened threads
amy brown@amybrown.xyz · 2mo agomy experience of being on threads is that i open the app and the top post in my feed is like "regarding the ALLEGATIONS from my PREVIOUS VIRAL POST you must remember my STEPCOUSIN is a LIAR"
