To completely generalize, publicly-owned utilities are small but resilient utilitydive.com/news/a-covid-1…

In the second piece of our tech series: Matthew Bandyk takes a look at virtual power plants and who will control them. utilitydive.com/news/propellin…

Long the realm of vertically-integrated utilities, Pacific Northwest looking into a "third way" between that model and the RTO/ISO model: utilitydive.com/news/pacific-n…

Down-the-road impacts on nuclear power from climate change need to be looked at now because relicensing decisions are being made now. Case in point: Turkey Point in Florida. Caroline Reiser fellow at NRDC 🌎🏡 has a piece in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on this: tinyurl.com/y4wjg6tu

Eruption Guitar Solo--Eddie Van Halen youtu.be/z_lwocmL9dQ via YouTube holy cow rip evh, a true musical innovator if there ever was one

Who should control virtual power plants made up of distributed energy resources - regulated utilities, third-party aggregators, something else? A test case in PA involving a settlement between PPL Corporation and NRDC 🌎🏡 + others may provide some answers: tinyurl.com/y2afoqp2

Trapt Just Fired Singer Chris Taylor Brown [Update: No They Didn't] | MetalSucks metalsucks.net/2020/12/14/tra… via metalsucks

Don Lemon on CNN right now: "the majority of power in Texas comes from oil and gas" Jesus christ, why do so many people screw this up

A lot I wasn't able to get to in this story, incl. more about retail choice's spotty record at encouraging innovation: tinyurl.com/9cc9sdr6

Been a long time since I clicked on a The Washington Times piece but comforting to know they are as trash as ever. In a graf and article about how fossil fuels are dominant, they have to slide in nuclear to get to the more impressive sounding 80% number

Hmm is this track record meant to inspire confidence that ⁦Form Energy⁩ really is the next big thing? Not saying it isn’t but from the wsj piece (which ⁦Eric Wesoff⁩ calls a puff piece) i don’t see why it is so special

The best Charlie Watts story, courtesy of Keith Richards:

Thanksgiving thought: is there a cover band of The Band called The Cover Band? #lastwaltz

My ★★★ review of Don't Look Up (2021) on Letterboxd: boxd.it/2pe5NB

The Beatles: Get Back (2021) on Letterboxd: boxd.it/xo7A

Someone turn this into a 5 min video to counter the FB aunts and uncles who saw a PragerU vid and think the power is going out because of not enough coal

Not only is this piece just wrong (see @rabagoenergy) it also is horribly written stylistically. Painfully constructed sentence after painfully constructed sentence. It says “underlain.” I am shocked that Utility Dive, a usually great site, would publish this.

An upside to jd vance winning is we get to see him more of him crying after days like today

I am legitimately curious about Fred Stafford take on tva opposing new epa pm rule. I am really sympathetic to his arguments defending tva but this seems like a really bad stance by them utilitydive.com/news/epa-final…