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Do small residential batteries make sense?
Home batteries like the Tesla Powerwall are nice, but what about people who can’t afford them, or renters who aren’t allowed to install them, or people who just don’t want the hassle of dealing with a permit and an electrician? A company ca...
Volts community thread #30: what should I ask the Danes?
❓ This month's question: what should David ask the Danes?
David’s Notes
1. 📚 Last Monday I sat down with Leah Stokes at Town Hall Seattle to talk about The Carbon Wave, her book about the fight for the Inflation Reduction Act. It’s...
How energy politics work inside DC
A conversation with Frank Maisano.
Back in 2011, I wrote that fossil fuel interests had a much better media game than clean energy. My example was Frank Maisano, a media relations guy for coal utilities and the natural gas industry. Thirty...
How to build a more flexible, quieter, less obnoxious data center
Verrus is building data centers designed to address every objection the public has raised: they use batteries instead of diesel generators, which makes them grid assets that help hold down power prices; they use closed-loop cooling, which u...
Building a big, abundant, clean grid
Jane Flegal has worked inside philanthropy at the Hewlett Foundation, industrial emissions policy at the Biden White House, and carbon-removal market development at Frontier; she's now a senior fellow at the Searchlight Institute, writing s...
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