Second, the details of requesting the microfilm scans from the Tennessee state library and, in particular, of my process using Claude Code to organize them. I hope academics and other history dweebs can get a sense how to use AI as research assistant: www.publicpowerreview.org/p/bringing-b...
First, here's the LABOR WORLD archive itself, which is now available online to search and read through for the first time (only 1929-1940 though): archive.org/details/labo...
NEW: I digitized a decade's worth (1929-1940) of the Chattanooga newspaper LABOR WORLD, a weekly paper by the local AFL, in order to unearth some New Deal public power history. And I used Claude Code to help me do it. Here's the process details for others to learn from. Links 👇
You wouldn't say solar photovoltaic technology is an obvious example?
Massachusetts's Electric Power Division is hiring for an energy analyst. Ratemaking + electrification + reliability. Super cool job!
www.mass.gov/alerts/the-e...
Request for public power historians, esp in TVA area: Can anyone recommend any articles, dissertations, etc that shines light on the Public Power League of Chattanooga that formed in the 1930s? Please RT to signal boost. 🙏
See my debunking of many arguments Romm makes in his new paper against new nuclear in New York, a paper full of misrepresentative citations to research literature and a glaring, shameful misfire on one major argument. Of course Green NGO ppl eat it up tho. www.publicpowerreview.org/p/debunking-...
It’s small in get grand scheme but I worry the data center back lash will turn into a broader one against any investment into the electrical grid unless there are major changes in how we fund the system and compensate IOUs.
Right. @justinmikulka.bsky.social that is a sizable misread of the article. He's even saying his firm sees enough profit in the prospect -- ie the economics does work -- that they'll share more of the risk to make it happen.
Poor Bob Howarth had to block me for posting the above on his sharing of Romm's bullshit paper. Real strong-willed academics we have!
See my debunking of many arguments Romm makes in his new paper against new nuclear in New York, a paper full of misrepresentative citations to research literature and a glaring, shameful misfire on one major argument. Of course Green NGO ppl eat it up tho. www.publicpowerreview.org/p/debunking-...
It was really fun to go on Vivek Chibber's "Confronting Capitalism" podcast to talk about socialism and abundance. Listen up! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
It's also 100% this promotional video they made for the Sequoyah refueling x.com/tvanews/stat...
Do the domestic content requirements for NYPA increase costs beyond those of a private developer? Labor requirements surely not, since all projects >1 MW getting REC revenues also have to follow them.
The climate left when conservatives trot out an academic who argues anthropogenic climate change isn't happening: "he's an outlier whose work is highly disputed!"
When they trot out this guy to argue gas worse than coal: "it's science and you're a fossil fuels shill to disagree"
Decided to post something on substack for the 1st time (partially b/c of dissatisfaction with this place & the other place, it must be said).
My first post is a response to @simonpirani.bsky.social's critiques of my work with @fredstaffordcs.bsky.social on electricity politics (link in next post).
Now online today, a feature from our latest print issue: Bob Leighninger, author of my fav New Deal infrastructure book, on the administrative and political importance of bureaucratic efficiency in the era of public works. Subscribe to read! $20 digital, $40 btfl print. damagemag.com/2025/12/15/h...
I’ll just add the NYPA lost fewer of their projects to tax credit cuts than most developers which should say something.
And the dismissal of the permit for the crypto miner's gas plant similarly makes no mention of the fact that said gas plant is also a key grid resource, not just for behind the meter usage for crypto mining, at a time when dispatchable power is growing more crucial and hard to come by.
The dismissal of the gas pipeline makes no mention of the fact that it was negotiated with Trump in exchange for the offshore wind project. It also neglects to mention the studies showing it will lower electricity bills on average.
... Moreover, the source for this absurd assertion is just a hyperlink to a rinky-dink FingerLakes1.com report on the recently announced (and slightly downwardly revised) renewables pipeline, sources only by comments from an activist in the green left coalition to oppose Hochul and NYPA.
... And then in the same sentence it accuses the governor of not taking full advantage of that law, which is an absurd assertion that is contradicted by NYPA going zero to sixty in two and a half years in a totally new business, to become largest public renewables developer. ...
There is a blatant error in the paragraph on building public renewables. It cites, as law, legislation that did not become law, which obfuscates the governor's office's major role in rewriting the authority to build public renewables, to make it a serious implementation. ...
My case for Kathy Hochul as the champion of public power today: www.publicpowerreview.org/p/new-york-g...
My case for Kathy Hochul as the champion of public power today: www.publicpowerreview.org/p/new-york-g...
Neither Komanoff nor I are suggesting that carbon accounting of NESE be offset, as part of NYS accounting or its owner's corporate accounting. Nor am I recognizing such offsets as a commodity to trade. Both of those would be key requirements of what you're accusing me of to your lazy audience.
This guy is incredibly disingenuous
You're full of shit. This has nothing to do with "corporate-centrist carbon markets" and everything to do with negotiations with the federal government.
Nobody is suggesting nuclear plants being built within NYC. It's laid out in the article what could be done
In which I got two Cuomo-endorsing industrial unions to praise Zohran Mamdani on something he said about the state's energy needs, and it's exactly what Governor and NYPA want too. Unfortunately it's also the thing the environmental left he's been close to refuses to budge on!👇