colinreports.bsky.social
Reporter covering climate and environment for New York Focus. Tips: colin@nysfocus.com, @colin.36 on Signal or DM for cell
👤 Joined on 12 Temmuz 2023
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@colinreports.bsky.socialPretty much every all-renewable energy grid you can pencil out imply a very high level of curtailment, and the higher VRE penetration you get, the more curtailment you need. The eye-poppingly low solar energy prices you see don't look quite as good when you need to overbuild so much.
Show Postit seems in the first half of this year China curtailed a quarter of its renewable electricty production, jesus www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Show PostIt's very funny that tech monopolies accidentally solved political polarization by uniting most of the country against data centers www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Show PostAn NYC green bank feels tailor-made for a Bloomberg Philanthropies seed capital grant.
Show PostNot enough you are re-posting this. This is a BANGER of a blogpost. Like, kaBOOM. It answers: - an argument made in the WSJ to governors last week about pipeline capacity expansion and - the broader, misguided intuition that gas distribution systems are the cheapest heating solution in cold places.
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