Energy | Research Scientist @UTAustin & @ColumbiaUEnergy | CTO @ideasmithsLLC | co-host @txenergyandpowr pod | husband | dad | sometimes bikes | views mine
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Hey y’all, help me congratulate my boss, colleague, and friend @MichaelEWebber for winning the prestigious Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education! Congrats and well-deserved!
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On the latest Energy Capital pod I talked with @Cris_Eugster, co-founder and CEO of Ever.green, about how cleaner sources of energy should be front and center in powering the technologies of the future and how he’s building novel ways to make that happen.
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How can renewable energy credits help finance new clean energy projects?
@UTAustin's Dr. @joshdr83 joins Ever.green Founder & CEO @Cris_Eugster to discuss REC financing, Texas solar & wind projects & rising data center demand.
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New study from @BloombergNEF shows that grid connected data centers are cleaner than fully off grid DCs, even at 1,000 hours (~11% of the year) running on backup diesel.
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The number of AI email and @LinkedIn inbounds is becoming untenable. I might just stop answering email like I have pretty much already stopped answering my phone.
“Batteries and energy storage have been counting on demand to go up because they’re having a rough time out there right now in terms of revenues,” Rhodes said. “Demand will have a pretty big impact on supply.”
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Never approach wildlife. You don't know what it's been through, and it doesn't know what you've been through. Neither of you needs this.
“My hope is that it's just a harsher sorting of the wheat versus the chaff,” Rhodes said of potential new regulations. “Right now you have a bunch of fly-by-night charlatans out there, ruining it for anyone who was maybe trying to do it better. ”
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We have hit capacity for the annual Federal Reserve Energy Conference on Tue, Nov 10 - but you can still attend virtually. Register below to hear from some of the leading voices in energy, geopolitics and finance, including friends @LSREnergy @websterdrake @joshdr83 and many more
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I genuinely believe our leaders should ban betting ads.
Every American, especially young ones, are watching their celebrity heroes sell a predatory industry...that's inherently designed to drain bank accounts.
We pulled cigarette ads off TV. We can do this too.
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En route to become one of my favorite stories to explain how messy the energy transition is proving:
Coal mine shifts to EV trucks to save on diesel.
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How much is one megawatt of data center load really worth?
Host @BradSwail sits down with @joshdr83 to discuss the value of data center electricity demand, Texas’ power market and the economic impact of growing energy loads.
#Texas #DataCenters #Energy #PowerGrid
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Is the Texas Data Center Queue a Bubble? Expert Explains the Numbers
Dr. Joshua Rhodes breaks down the massive ERCOT large-load interconnection queue and why the biggest headline numbers (400+ GW) are unrealistic. He covers the jump from recent peak demand growth to speculative forecasts, how unsigned load requests flooded the system after AI took off, the old ad-hoc process that couldn’t handle the volume, and why only 20–30% of projects in the generation queue historically get built.
A clear explanation of the gap between requested data center load and what the Texas grid can actually support.
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#ERCOT #DataCenters #AI #TexasGrid #EnergyPolicy