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neighbour retweeted
If you're wondering why people think that vehicle-to-grid technology could play a major role in system-level energy:
There's 10x+ more storage capacity shipped in cars than in grid-tied stationary batteries.
No mention of V2G in the @bchydro IRP, and they are actively suppressing it by excluding net metering from their proposed TOU residential rates.
Let's learn from California's mistakes and make EV adoption as easy as possible @Josie_Osborne @SoniaFurstenau @JonathanWNV @vevabc
“State policymakers haven’t done enough to encourage vehicle-to-grid in tandem with the adoption of electric cars. That’s unfortunate, because it just makes sense to give a second job to electric vehicles,” @latimes editorial board writes: latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
There's a proposed bill in California requiring all EVs to have bidirectional power by 2027.
Will BC follow, to make sure people have a clean, quiet, affordable backup generator in their driveway, to keep them cool in the next heat dome?
@BowinnMa
theclimatecenter.org/our-wor…
neighbour retweeted
In 2022, China invested 11x as much money in renewable power as it did in coal
Coal power investment has fallen by 60% since 2015 – while spending on renewables has nearly doubled
Source: iea.org/data-and-statistics/…
neighbour retweeted
Inside the high-dollar race to sell natural gas as low-carbon in a warming world. Part one, out today, of a two-part series I've written for @CanaryMediaInc. I think it’s an important read. Part two out tomorrow. bit.ly/canarygreengas
neighbour retweeted
For the first time, spending on energy transition technologies appears to have caught up with fossil fuels supply investment, even as the global energy crisis led to an uptick in the latter.
Very impressed with #postmedia's new AI editors and their reporting on major energy projects like the "Coastal Gasoline pipeline" and "LNG Kitimat"
Why pay staff when you can produce content like this on ChatGPT and funnel the rest into million-dollar C-suite salaries?
neighbour retweeted
If we assume an 80% DOD and cycling once a day, that would deliver 339.6 TWh of electricity.
How does that compare to nuclear?
It’s the equivalent of 43 GW. (0.9 CF)
Nuclear has never added 43 GW to the grid in a single year. Best ever was mid 30’s forty years ago.
4/n
(2/2) separate from their more expensive 'RNG' rates, Fortis is asking to raise their base rates to cover 'Energy Transition Risks'. The mechanism for this involves raising their equity ratio from 40 to 45% (equity costs more than debt, 10% vs ~4% interest)...
...and Fortis passes this added cost directly to their customers.
With a $6B balance sheet, that's around $20M in additional energy costs for BC gas customers.
#energytwitter
#bcpoli
#CleanBC at work:
Replace a heat pump water heater with a gas version, get $1000 (50x the GHG emissions, +1 tonne/yr).
But no incentive at all for the low carbon option.
Isn't the plan supposed to *reduce* emissions? Why subsidize gas?
#bcpoli @GeorgeHeyman
@Josie_Osborne
More false advertising from @FortisBC...
If BC electrifies, 4 million of us can use heat pumps without electric backup, at 300% avg efficiency. Fortis' sensationalist claim is over twice the actual worst case power needs (+9 gigawatts)
@bchydro @CAPE_ACME @dogwoodbc #bcpoli
Alberta issues grid alert as cold snap leads to all-time record energy use amid low temperatures vancouversun.com/news/local-…
neighbour retweeted
Under current policy and economic trajectories, oil demand is set to start declining this decade. Modelling from @Equinor, @bp_plc, @IEA and @RystadEnergy show a range of decline of 17%-41% from 2019 levels by 2050.
neighbour retweeted
The @bcndp using an idling bus to try to drown out #FrackFreeBC activists as Premier Eby and the new cabinet arrive at Government House for the swearing feels on brand for a party that goes to extreme lengths to ignore the fact that fracking can’t fit within our climate targets.
The BC government using a bus to block #FrackFreeBC activists from @Dave_Eby and the @bcndp cabinet as the arrive at Government House
Why do #NDP candidates keep citing 'unclear guidelines' and 'shifting goalposts' as ways the party stops them from running?
Because that's the playbook. Make it vague, don't respond to clarification requests, make the costs of staying in the race unbearable.
This has to stop
Exhibit B: BIPOC candidates will be disqualified if they don't find 25% of at least 20 NDP member signatories in each of 4 regions who can prove they are BIPOC, 100 sigs total.
The sole judge of clearing this hurdle is the provincial director (Lucy Watson).
I hope this gets some closer scrutiny because it. keeps. happening.
Sure it's inside baseball, but these people write the rules for our democracy (or at least might have a shot after the next election)
@QueensParkToday @backbenchcast @sandela @NoLore @JesseBrown