Climate and permitting has been a sore spot for the relationship between Democrats and the building trades. The hardhats hated Obama, Clinton, and Biden's opposition to Keystone, but loved the IIJA and IRA. Now, *some* hardhat unions like BAAJA, with one notable silence heatmap.news/politics/baa...

Can This BAAJA Blast of a Permitting Bill Actually Build Más?

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Utilities are due to spend over a trillion dollars over the next few years, they're the gatekeepers to AI...and maybe have never been weaker politically, which could be why a permitting deal finally comes together...

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Scoop: The Trump administration is flouting a court order ruling their de facto freeze on wind farm height approvals was illegal, the lead plaintiff in the case told @heatmap.news, after an update to court laid out no new approvals since the edict

nvidia, google, and datacenter startup emerald ai are teaming up (with anthropic!) to advocate for flexible load, setting up structures to allow data centers to shut off at times of high demand to reduce strain on the grid. if they can't make it work, can anyone?

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Expensive diesel means more expensive heating oil, this is a really big deal in New England where you have may have heard of some congressional and senate races heatmap.news/energy/new-e...

Higher rates are bad for renewables which have lots of upfront costs that need to be financed and higher input costs don't help either (materials, skilled labor, etc), except for one input...electricity heatmap.news/economy/bond...

It's a really good time to be refining oil in the United States — and it will only get better (for you, not for drivers or farmers or New Englanders) if another refinery goes down for maintenance or a hurricane

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It's very very hot in Texas.

But the grid is fine.

Electricity prices are manageable.

What happened?

🔋🔋🔋🔋BATTERIES!!! 🔋🔋🔋

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