HeyJaredEnergy Bad Boys
Energy modelers Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling write about the energy issues facing our world.
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Data Centers Skip the (Interstate Pipe) Line (opens the original)
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Enjoy the Lack of Blackouts, Jack (opens the original)
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A Nation Divided by Natural Gas (opens the original)
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The Gray New Deal (opens the original)
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“The interesting thing about the Green New Deal, is it wasn't originally a climate thing at all. Do you guys think of it as a climate thing? Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing." - Saikat Chakrabarti, former chief of staff to Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t31Y!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pro
If Grid Utilization is Good, Wind and Solar Are Bad (opens the original)
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Affordability and rising electricity demand for data centers are top of mind for the energy industry. Now, Jigar Shah, Tyler Norris, and others in the wind and solar advocacy camp claim prices are rising not because of the massive national malinvestment in wind and solar resources, but because we are not fully using the grid we already have. But this argument ignores the fact that adding their preferred resource plans requires gigawatts of intermittent wind and solar resources, with the attendan
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