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Energy Empire Podcast retweeted
My friend @andrewbeebe crushes it in this episode. I pushed him hard and he defends good VCs eloquently
Most venture-backed startups fail.
But, when a climate company fails, the story often becomes: you can't do good and make money at the same time.
He says we need to change that.
Listen to the full episode of Energy Empire 🗽🔌
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Not every climate startup needs to IPO. Sometimes the right outcome is product-market fit, a sale to Schneider Electric, and calling it a day.
More on this with Andrew Beebe on the latest episode of Energy Empire.
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Con Edison now wants battery projects to pay about $21M each in grid upgrades to connect. 25 projects canceled. 91 more at risk. 2.5 GW stuck in the queue.
Those batteries are supposed to help bring New York’s bills down. I asked NYSERDA chair Audrey Zibelman who fixes that.
“Electrons don’t vote.”
Audrey Zibelman on what former Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull got right: look at the facts, look at the engineering, and do what makes economic sense.
Watch the full episode now: energyempire.fm/episodes/a-t…
@JigarShahDC 🗽 🔌
Energy Empire Podcast retweeted
So good to talk with my friend @timechols on why Energy is on the Ballot this fall and his oped in the @WSJ about how @SecWar is making Nuclear happen.
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The cat's out of the bag on what importing oil actually costs a country's security. That's not a thing you un-learn and it might be the reason oil demand peaks sooner than anyone forecasted.
New episode of Energy Empire with Semafor's @timmcdonnell out now.
Energy Empire Podcast retweeted
The most expensive power plant running sets the price for every electron on the grid.
Block cheap clean power and pricier fossil plants run instead. Everyone's bill goes up.
"A ginormous money pump." @SenWhitehouse with @JigarShahDC and @dcjams on Energy on the Ballot 🗽🔌
Energy Empire Podcast retweeted
Voltus pays factories, warehouses and big box stores to use less electricity when the grid is tight. It has 8.5 GW of that today, and just raised $225M to get to 20 GW by 2030.
GE Vernova is taking gas turbine orders for 2031...
New episode of Energy Empire out now 🗽🔌
@JigarShahDC
Voltus pays factories, warehouses and big box stores to use less electricity when the grid is tight. It has 8.5 GW of that today, and just raised $225M to get to 20 GW by 2030.
GE Vernova is taking gas turbine orders for 2031...
New episode of Energy Empire out now 🗽🔌
@JigarShahDC
Energy Empire Podcast retweeted
The Trump administration tried to stop Revolution Wind twice.
Its power is contracted at 9 cents a kilowatt-hour. The grid it feeds averages 18.
"It's literally half-price electrons for Rhode Islanders."
Senator @SenWhitehouse on Energy on the Ballot 🗽🔌
@JigarShahDC
The most expensive power plant running sets the price for every electron on the grid.
Block cheap clean power and pricier fossil plants run instead. Everyone's bill goes up.
"A ginormous money pump." @SenWhitehouse with @JigarShahDC and @dcjams on Energy on the Ballot 🗽🔌
The Trump administration tried to stop Revolution Wind twice.
Its power is contracted at 9 cents a kilowatt-hour. The grid it feeds averages 18.
"It's literally half-price electrons for Rhode Islanders."
Senator @SenWhitehouse on Energy on the Ballot 🗽🔌
@JigarShahDC
Energy Empire Podcast retweeted
The Senate's permitting bill is out. One of the senators who wrote it walks @JigarShahDC through it.
A year for a state to route a power line. Then FERC.
Reconductor without restarting NEPA.
150 days to sue.
Data centers pay their own way.
@SenatorHeinrich on Energy Empire, out now 🗽🔌
The Senate's permitting bill is out. One of the senators who wrote it walks @JigarShahDC through it.
A year for a state to route a power line. Then FERC.
Reconductor without restarting NEPA.
150 days to sue.
Data centers pay their own way.
@SenatorHeinrich on Energy Empire, out now 🗽🔌
Energy Empire Podcast retweeted
Google offered to pay for the data center infrastructure upgrades outright. The utility said no, because that wouldn't go into their rate base. They restructured it as a prepayment instead so they could rate base it anyway.
Result: everyone's bill went up $5.77 a month.
Google offered to pay for the data center infrastructure upgrades outright. The utility said no, because that wouldn't go into their rate base. They restructured it as a prepayment instead so they could rate base it anyway.
Result: everyone's bill went up $5.77 a month.
Diesel is $7 a gallon in some places and groceries are following it. Candidates in both parties are promising to bring costs down.
@JigarShahDC says the fix already exists. Batteries, solar, and American-built EVs are all sitting on the shelf. What's missing is a plan, and a government that isn't the bottleneck.
Energy on the Ballot, our new series on the midterms, starts today with Arnab Pal 🗽🔌