Utility exec told lawmakers that a frozen gas pipeline was to blame. PSC filings reveal the rest of the story.

What he did not mention was that coal-fired power also had failed — enough so that if the utility’s coal-fired generation had been operating at capacity the rolling blackouts would have been averted.

#EnergyMastodon #EnergyTransition #Climate #Coal

https://kentuckylantern.com/2023/09/08/coal-fired-power-failures-during-winter-storm-come-to-light-months-later/

This will excite only a very niche audience, but we've released v1.0 of our #FERC #XBRL extraction library, which consumes the taxonomies and filings published by FERC via RSS and uses them to build #SQLite databases that are much more amenable to analytical usage. it works for FERC Forms 1, 2, 6, 60, and 714 which started using XBRL in 2021. We're now working on integrating the 2022 data.

#OpenData #EnergyTransition #EnergyMastodon #PyData

https://pypi.org/project/catalystcoop.ferc-xbrl-extractor/

This is the way.

Execelent line of questioning earlier this week by KYPSC Chariman Chandler regarding LG&E filings that assert the capacity value of solar is 0.

#EnergyMastodon #EnergyTransition #Solar #LG&E #Kentucky

https://vimeo.com/860335431?share=copy

Fossil fuels failed #Kentucky utility customers during winter blackouts

#EnergyMastodon #EnergyTransition #Climate

https://www.lpm.org/news/2023-08-31/fossil-fuels-failed-kentucky-utility-customers-during-winter-blackouts

Reimagine Appalachia is going to be talking about how to replace coal plants while sustaining local economies using incentives under the #IRA, October 5th, 3-5pm eastern:

#EnergyTransition #JustTransition #EnergyJustice #EnergyMastodon #EnergyTwitter

https://reimagineappalachia.org/listening-session-reimagining-shuttered-coal-plants/

The Open Energy Modeling Initiative folks are organizing a workshop / conference this November somewhere in the SF Bay Area, come hang out!

#EnergyTransition #OpenSource #OpenData #EnergyMastodon #EmergyTwitter

https://forum.openmod.org/t/openmod-meets-usa-2023/4148

ATB-Calc, a new suite of open-source Python tools for processing and interacting with Electricity Annual Technology Baseline (ATB) data, is now available to #ATB users on GitHub.

https://github.com/NREL/ATB-calc

Webinar demonstrating the new tool:

https://nrel.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_fq50bW2WQH2b1-QHFtyEyA

#EnergyMastodon #EnergyTransition #IRA

Vote happening Friday for half of KyMEA load to give notice of exit from KyMEA All Requirements contract.

KyMEA has been striving to build new gas for years despite the high cost, available lower cost options, objections from its largest member, and committment of its largest member city to be 100% renewable by 2035.

In today's KyMEA meeting, FPB was the sole no vote against moving forward with building new gas.

#EnergyMastodon #Kentucky #EnergyTransition #Climate

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/509ac5d5e4b011ec8327ecea/t/64e75b63f129251d427a2639/1692883811301/Aug25Meeting.pdf

Next episode of Kent and Lonnie show starts at 8:30 AM ET. Must see regulatory TV.

#EnergyMastodon #EnergyTransition #Coal #Kentucky #Climate

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XoBcnAMrDpA

As a decarbonization strategy, a blue hydrogen hub would be “a really energy-intensive, really water-intensive thing that commits that sector to being fossil-based forever, essentially,”

#Climate #EnergyMastodon #EnergyTransition

https://energynews.us/2023/08/21/critics-question-how-climate-friendly-an-appalachian-blue-hydrogen-hub-will-be/

For those who enjoy such things, the KY PSC hearing today regarding LG&E's new gas plants is a barnburner.

Still at it after a 9 AM ET start.

#EnergyTransition #Kentucky #EnergyMastodon #Climate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svez4C-KDhg

With support from RMI & the Sloan Foundation we've updated our EIA-860/861/923 outputs to include early release data for 2022, and the final 2022 hourly EPA CEMS data. They're now available from our nightly builds. The EIA data is in the main PUDL DB. CEMS is distributed as a separate Parquet dataset. Direct download links here:

https://catalystcoop-pudl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/data_access.html#access-nightly-builds

#OpenData #EnergyTransition #EIA #EPA #EnergyMastodon

With this tech, called "dynamic line rating", utilities are able to increase the efficiency of their lines – sometimes as much as 40%

#EnergyMastodon #IRA #EnergyTransition #Climate

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/13/1187620367/power-grid-enhancing-technologies-climate-change

Judge rules in favor of Montana youths in landmark climate decision

#EnergyMastodon #Climate #EnergyTransition

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/14/youths-win-montana-climate-trial/

A nice long discussion between @drvolts & @chazteplin on the current challenges with renewable energy getting connected to the US grid. PJM has ~3000 projects in their queue. Nominally more than 1TW of renewables is waiting. #FERC is trying to spread some best practices, but it's a huge bottleneck that will dampen the impact of the IRA. #EnergyMastodon #EnergyTransition #Transmission

https://www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-deal-with-interconnection

Hey #EnergyMastodon, we finally got set up here so I guess we should do an #introduction

Catalyst is an all-remote worker #Cooperative focused on open #DataEngineering, analysis, and open source software. We mostly work with public US data related to the energy system, pulling together information from #FERC, #EIA, #EPA, and other agencies and trying to turn it into analysis-ready database tables so advocates, policymakers, & researchers can focus on their own novel work instead.

Welcome to the fediverse Catalyst Cooperative!

@catalystcoop

https://catalyst.coop

https://github.com/catalyst-cooperative

#EnergyMastodon #datascience #EnergyTransition #Climate

New job alert! Advanced Energy United is staffing up so we can do even more work on cutting edge clean energy issues across the Western U.S.

https://advancedenergyunited.applytojob.com/apply/ZrsrrDRDIi/Regulatory-Policy-Principal-West?source=Our%20Career%20Page%20Widget

#EnergyMastodon #energytransition #cleanenergy

anyone have any good capex/opex & production data on these installations?

https://mastodon.energy/@ripplesandleaves@mastodon.social/110761093507021054

#EnergyMastodon #Climate #EnergyTransition #Solar #agriculture @ripplesandleaves

Rivian backs massive solar plant atop old coal mine in Kentucky

#EnergyMastodon #EnergyTransition #Climate #Kentucky

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/rivian-backs-massive-solar-plant-atop-old-coal-mine-in-kentucky