Bribes! Not brides!!! Lmao

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A RECORD surge in solar halted the rise of global fossil generation last year 🚫💨

Unpack the full story of the global power sector in 2025 👇

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Mythbusting👊

It is madness! There used to be a semi functioning greyhound network but that has withered and been cut over the decades with the last blow being during pandemic

Best routing is the 928 from Waterbury to Hartford (hourly exact cash only, coach bus) then local bus to Manchester (schedule varies)

Bills containing plug-in solar provisions pass in Maryland and Colorado The measures join similar laws in Utah, Maine, and Virginia as the movement to pass portable solar legislation continues across the United States.

States 4 and 5 pass plug in solar legalization!!! Congrats to Maryland and Colorado, both pending Gov signature

#1 fastest thing that can be passed to lower home energy bills within 12 moths. Countdown is on for CT to join in the action

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Former New Britain mayor says she was not offered bribes. ‘We’re not talking about quid pro quo’ Republican gubernatorial candidate Erin Stewart said Monday that she had not been offered bribes routinely during her 12 years as New Britain’s mayor, despite telling a television interviewer that it ...

Loudly declaring "I got offered brides all the time" is uhhhhh something?

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followed by
5. Hartford New haven via middletown
6. Danbury new haven
7. Danbury Bridgeport

I would split it. In order highest ridership i have:
1. Danbury-Waterbury-New Britain- Hartford (waterbury-hartford already exists but terribly marketed)
2. Hartford-westerly via Manchester Storrs Norwich Foxwoods
3. Hartford Torrington via West Hartford
4. Hartford new London via Norwich & mohegan

hello connecticut river valley

welcome!

House Speaker 'confident' schools will get $170M boost this year It's significantly more than the $100M floor Gov. Ned Lamont has offered, which was itself an upward shift for the fiscal moderate.

A good floor, glad they're turning the screws on Ned

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OMG another state is doing this! Gosh it is such a no brainer. CT is so ripe for this

Suddenly, the US manufactures a ton of grid batteries Energy storage is surging on the U.S. grid — and now the country has more than enough battery-making factories to meet that booming demand.

Haha. EV batteries are crazy in how much energy they pack. @canarymedia.com just did a big piece on the pivot of EV battery factories to stationary

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Yesssss. Hell yesssss

Opinion: More solar - not gas - will bring down your electric bill I’m running again to be the state representative for the 108th District. As a candidate, one of my top goals is lowering energy bills.

Inject this into my veins 💉💉💉. A candidate for state rep talking about reducing permitting barriers for solar in the state. This is the future 👏

Great for the environment, great for the climate, and great for consumers!
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Energy firm Budderfly tops $1B in funding, launches battery storage rollout Budderfly is expanding beyond efficiency into energy storage, offering battery systems that allow customers to store unused power for later use.

Cool story about how 150 kw batteries are being integrated into factories and industrial users to smooth energy use through the day and avoid variable pricing at peak cost times

That's equivalent to 11 Tesla power walls!

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I feel like the abolition of parking requirements is a really instructive example of why developers often aren't all that useful for identifying pro-growth reform. 🧵

Ed's right: most developers don't often demand it. They look around at "comps" and see everything with (mandated) parking. They'll thus say, "I can [lease/sell/finance] anything without 1:1 parking!" They can't imagine a new market. And they definitely can't imagine sites unlocked by a reform.

CT summer music festival draws big crowds every week. Here’s this year’s lineup

The HSO says that this year the concerts will have large video screens on either side of the stage to enhance the concertgoing experience.

There’s nothing that radicalizes you more re: land use than riding by Greenwich’s 4 (4!!!!—Bridgeport has 1) MetroNorth train stations and seeing nothing but 1-2 story commercial, parking, and small $1.5 million homes

The Seaside Town Trying to Reclaim Its Title as ‘Submarine Capital of the World’ Groton, Conn., suffered after Cold War military spending dried up 30 years ago. Now it’s being asked to deliver again.

Little Groton CT!

"The military’s orders have left Groton with a high-stakes challenge: how to resurrect a bygone era of military might in a far-flung seaside town short on workers, homes and transit.

It’s amazing said Senator Martha Marx. Except we don’t have anywhere for these people to live."

Spain is crushing it ⚡🇪🇸

Solar is delivering the equivalent of 27 nuclear plants during the day. Pumped hydro stores ~3 nuclear plants worth. Batteries already stepping in.

This isn’t a generation problem anymore. It’s storage scale.

Energy scarcity → energy timing. #BESS #Solar

lol - same comments as them. Shiny stations demand more train service

Seeing those renders with it all being tied together is awesome

I totally agree, fortunately though the speed of the HL already is time competitive with driving. It could be even better (guessing shave 10 min off between Hartford-New Haven?)

The engine change is a total killer for longer distance travel. Would shave 20ish min off for through px

Great Q, it would be laughable to not add a bathroom but I bet they don't because *American Exceptionalism*

Hartford Union? My guess is never?

Wonder how that electrification study is going... they stopped responding to my infrequent inquiries which is a bad sign

Now that I know the new Amtrak Airos are going to be dual mode, I don't care as much about electrification

That said, it would be way easier to electrify now instead of waiting until service volumes was way higher and the work will be more disruptive

I agree on PX vehicles being way easier. I think the hesitation is the vehicles are pretty mobile and often don't have a dedicated overnight base so you need sufficient charging *everywhere*

I know there are people working on it actively but frustratingly slow

Here is the presentation here:

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Cool to think about what is to come in New England

I bet we can push to do this even faster