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House Passes SPEED Act, Failing to Lower Energy Costs or Speed Clean Energy Deployment
Washington, DC — Today, the House of Representatives passed the “Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development Act,” or the SPEED Act. Rather than fixing the real barriers slowing clean energy projects, the SPEED Act weakens the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in ways that would do little to lower costs or … [continued]
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Renewable Energy, Economics, & Inertia
Solar panels cannot add inertia to an electrical grid. For that, we need a spinning device like a synchronous compensator.
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Data Center Opponents Push Back Against “Superhuman” AI
The rush to build more and bigger data centers to power the AI revolution is getting pushback from an array of opponents in the US.
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Electricity Scarcity Meets Aluminum Tariffs, and American Citizens Pick Up the Bill
A collision between AI data centers being built—in the current AI bubble and with full throated support by the Trump Administration—and aluminum smelters for electricity is no longer theoretical. Utilities across the United States are facing binding constraints on generation and transmission. When presented with competing requests for hundreds of … [continued]
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The Short List of Climate Actions That Will Work
A few months ago, I was invited by Dr. Sebastian Husein of the Battery Centre Twente to speak at the University of Twente’s 2025 Climate Event, a hybrid discussion with multiple speakers engaging with an audience of academics in the Netherlands and neighboring countries. That event occurred on November 5th, … [continued]
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