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Market-Based Renewables Lower Prices, Reading & Podcast Picks, October 19, 2025
Batteries are booming in Texas; LBL/Brattle study shines light on factors driving power prices; reckoning with China's growth; Corpus Christi is running…
Oct 19
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Doug Lewin
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States With High Renewable Share Have Lower Power Costs: Reading & Podcast Picks, October 12, 2025
Houston area suffers frequent "blue sky" outages; buyers' remorse from the Permian; data shows Administration's claims on renewables are wrong…
Oct 12
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Doug Lewin
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Emma Hamilton
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Demand Side Resources Could Enable Load Growth: Reading & Podcast Picks, October 5, 2025
Data centers could put money into customers' pockets, gain speed to power, and make the grid more reliable by investing in demand-side markets; DOE cuts…
Oct 5
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Doug Lewin
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Emma Hamilton
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Solar, Storage, Gas, and VPPs in Texas: Reading & Podcast Picks, September 28, 2025
Solar + storage in Texas = uneventful summer, lower power prices; VPPs growing in Texas and beyond; ERCOT launches innovation initiative; new TEF gas…
Sep 28
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Doug Lewin
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Can AI Data Centers Lower Costs for Residential Consumers? Reading & Podcast Picks, September 21, 2025
Flexible AI loads; who gets blamed for high energy costs; bipartisan permitting reform in DC; solar and battery records in Texas; the "pragmatic climate…
Sep 21
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Doug Lewin
21
Renewables Spur Economic Growth in Rural Texas: Reading & Podcast Picks, September 14, 2025
Ember's new China report; Speaker Johnson supports wind in competitive district; the coming electricity crisis; gas turbine costs escalate; renewables…
Sep 14
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Doug Lewin
13
Gas Plants Could Double, Solar Would Still Dominate: Reading & Podcast Picks, September 7, 2025
Gas turbine capacity to increase but still can't satisfy one-sixth of new global demand; US solar manufacturing increases; oil jobs contract; Texas…
Sep 7
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Doug Lewin
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The Affordability Crisis Deepens: Reading & Podcast Picks, August 31, 2025
The Administration's attacks on clean energy upend Texas' economic development; "The Electric Slide"; distributed batteries in Texas; AI and…
Aug 31
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Doug Lewin
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Emma Hamilton
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Entergy Texas Picks Expensive Plan: Reading & Podcast Picks, August 24, 2025
Entergy proposes $2.4 billion for 1.2 gigawatts of gas with no solar or storage; how electricity got so expensive; solar growth around the world; USDA…
Aug 24
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Doug Lewin
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Solar Ascent, Reading & Podcast Picks, August 17, 2025
McKibben's new book; Dwarkesh and Handmer on solar and AI; Treasury tax credit guidance; Goldman Sachs on AI load flexibility; heat pump adoption; EIA's…
Aug 17
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Doug Lewin
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Emma Hamilton
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American Energy Manufacturing Declines: Reading & Podcast Picks, August 10, 2025
Energy pragmatism vs. ideology; a slowdown in American energy manufacturing; Virtual Power Plants and AI; new restrictions on batteries in ERCOT's…
Aug 10
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Doug Lewin
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Emma Hamilton
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"They're Going Against Their Own Voters": Reading & Podcast Picks, August 3, 2025
Repeal of tax credits hurts consumers and rural farmers & ranchers; used EV batteries on the Texas grid; Meta puts another billion into Texas solar; WSJ…
Aug 3
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Doug Lewin
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Emma Hamilton
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