Rob Gramlich @RobGramlichDC

@ChristieFERC I look forward to seeing you. We will surely disagree on some things but we CAN talk college sports. I’m sure the committee won’t mind. PS did you see the Final Four?

Key insight from @daniel_wolf1 : the options can work together. You can get a more granular energy market (C) with state-overseen economic hedging (A). You can also find more and more interruptible loads of different flavors working with retail regulators (B).

Daniel Wolf @daniel_wolf1

3 weeks ago

I just finished reading PJM’s seventy-page market design white paper (so now you don’t have to!) (Thread)

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I just finished reading PJM’s seventy-page market design white paper (so now you don’t have to!) (Thread)

YES and YES!

Jeff Dennis @EnergyLawJeff

3 weeks ago

🚨Do you enjoy nerding out on transmission cost allocation? Does adding another tab to your "reports to read" window warm your heart? Well I have good news. ECA, with Grid Strategies and ACEG, is out with a new primer on transmission cost allocation and cost recovery. 🧵 1/

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When we look back 20 years from now and realize the biggest barrier was contractors’ training and incentives. My experience tracked with this one. ⬇️

Andy Slye @slye

4 weeks ago

Most HVAC contractors in America are trying to keep you in the 1990s. I had $15,000 cash to spend on a cold-climate heat pump. Nearly every contractor I contacted tried to talk me out of it or over-quote me an outrageous amount to deter me away. One guy spent 20 minutes

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This woman just made ultramarathon history in 56-hour, 250-mile run in Arizona. Rachel Entrekin won the Cocodona 250 outright in a 56-hour, 250+mile effort, beating the entire men’s field, setting a new course record, and marking a landmark moment in ultrarunning history.

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

BIG NEWS: Our first Frequency Band podcast episode is LIVE! 🎙️ Rob Gramlich (@RobGramlichDC) from Grid Strategies and Kyri Baker (@kyrib) from CU Boulder join us to talk grid innovation. ⚡ 🎧 Stream it now and let’s power up energy conversations: ow.ly/gFjP50YNGc8

Vibe shift: @NRDC just called for permitting reform

Go blue! Freshman daughter thinks this is normal.

@ChristieFERC Missing in this story (and almost all discussions about this topic) is restructuring lesson #1 from California 2000-2001: small retail customers should be hedged. A state can and should direct LSEs to procure power and capacity bilaterally. Rate base is not the only way to hedge.

The world's largest utility company just eliminated one of the most dangerous jobs on earth. China's State Grid which controls power for 1.1 billion people has deployed robotic electricians across 26 provinces and counting. These machines work on live, 10,000-volt wires while the power stays fully on. Before this, the workers who did this job wore full conductive armor and understood that one wrong move was fatal. Now the robot takes that risk instead. The machines strip insulation, tighten connections, and splice wires with millimeter precision, all while hanging at altitude on a live grid. They complete tasks 50 percent faster than a human crew and report a 98 percent success rate. This is already the operating standard in more than two dozen Chinese provinces. China is about to spend $554 billion upgrading its power grid between now and 2030. That is a war chest for building the most automated, AI-powered energy infrastructure in human history. Meanwhile, the United States has a shortage of 40,000 electricians and the gap is getting worse every year. China's answer to that problem is not a trade school, it is a fleet of machines that never sleeps or quits. Every other country still arguing about whether robots will replace workers is watching the answer get deployed in real time.

Oh no! US airlines are no longer hedged against oil price shocks. Now we will all be paying in higher fares. Just like PJM states who didn't hedge against the recent increase. And California in 2000-2001. Hindsight is 20-20 but some hedging is smart. reuters.com/business/energ…

@JigarShahDC Love OSW, high capacity factor and capacity value. Still need a grid though. 70-90% isn’t even one 9.

3000 crazy people decided to ski 50km in the cold northwoods of Wisconsin yeaterday. I was one. Thousands more, even crazier, stood in the cold to cheer us on. Gorgeous day, highest possible endorphine high achieved.

On the #CatalystPodcast, @RobGramlichDC of Grid Strategies LLC joined @shaylekann to discuss why #GETs are key to meeting ⚡ demand growth: “Those things are relatively inexpensive and they’re speedy.” Listen on @_LatitudeMedia: latitudemedia.com/podcast/cataly…

Appreciating @FERC hiring, @LauraSwettFERC promoting the agency, @LaCerteDA and other Commissioners' testimony about the quality of FERC staff. Nothing works in this space without good FERC staff. d1dth6e84htgma.cloudfront.net/02_03_2026_ENG…

@PaulSegal12 100% agree, Paul. Competitive generation markets have been a huge benefit to consumers. Signals are strong to keep whatever generation is needed to stay on line, and to attract more. They are a work in progress for sure but better than the alternative.

@PaulSegal12 @gtpwr My spending on cars was low and flat for ten years until the car was old and then spending rose dramatically. Why is this surprising?

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