Justin Gerdes
I publish the Quitting Carbon newsletter. Subscribe: https://www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/. Former Managing Editor, Energy Monitor. Send story ideas or tips: justingerdes@gmail.com or Signal: JustinGerdes.85
- @americancleanpower.bsky.social California's Wes Venteicher writes about a proposal in Senate Bill 254 in which "California wants to use public-private partnerships to cut financing costs for new transmission." www.cleanpowercalifornia.org/californias-... 🔌💡
- California state Sen. @joshbecker.bsky.social just introduced SB 943, which "proposes making changes to electricity rates to help manufacturers and large commercial companies switch to electricity for industrial heat," reports @mariagallucci.bsky.social: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle... 🔌💡
- "The Post sent layoff notices to at least 14 climate journalists, newsroom sources told me, part of a massive round of cost-cutting that will see more than 300 journalists lose their jobs," reports @sammyroth.bsky.social: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington... #ClimateSky
- "If a newspaper’s publisher makes a bunch of decisions that lose money, and then the owner keeps the publisher while firing the staff who puts out the paper—none of this is really about the money, is it?" writes @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-washin...
- "State lawmakers want gas companies to give New Yorkers more notice when they’re planning to dig up a gas line — and a chance to consider cheaper or cleaner alternatives," reports @colinreports.bsky.social: nysfocus.com/2026/02/04/l... 🔌💡
- New @aceee.org report: "Utility energy efficiency programs ... save energy for a median cost of only $21 per megawatt-hour, the report found. That’s less than half the cost of generating electricity with even the least expensive new gas-fired power plants." www.aceee.org/press-releas... 🔌💡
- Reposted by Justin GerdesWe at the @postguild.bsky.social are raising money for the hundreds of journalists the Post just laid off. This goes to the people who are hurting, not the Post. Or if you'd rather, go subscribe to an independent journalist. Support is hugely appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...
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- The California High-Speed Rail Authority completed its Southern Railhead Facility: "a major milestone that allows California to begin receiving and staging materials needed to install high-speed rail track and systems along the California high-speed rail corridor." www.gov.ca.gov/2026/02/03/g...
- "Australia has emerged as a 'global proof point' of a major structural change in electricity grids around the world, with grid scale batteries overtaking peaking gas plant output in its three biggest state grids." reneweconomy.com.au/global-proof... via @gilesparkinson.bsky.social 🔌💡
- "One year after President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, at least a third of the lawyers on staff at the Justice Department’s environment division have walked out the door ... kneecapping its power to keep polluters in check." www.eenews.net/articles/sta... by Pamela King
- Legislation to be introduced in the House today "seeks to curb the executive branch’s power to claw back previously-granted permits, protecting energy projects of all kinds from whiplash every time the political winds change," reports @alexckaufman.bsky.social: heatmap.news/politics/fre... 🔌💡
- "Renewables provided just over 49 per cent of electricity demand in Australia’s main grid in January, despite a series of sweltering heatwaves that swept across the country." reneweconomy.com.au/batteries-cl... via @gilesparkinson.bsky.social 🔌💡
- FYI, fellow EV drivers: ChargePoint just sent an email announcing a new "Service Fee." "Starting in March, we will begin rolling out a Service Fee on certain paid charging sessions." www.chargepoint.com/service-fee-...
- "A group of governments in the Denver metropolitan area has managed to hold on to a nearly $200 million federal grant to unleash heat pumps in the region — and now it’s putting that money to work," reports @alisontakemura.bsky.social: www.canarymedia.com/articles/hea... 🔌💡
- "Fully electric vehicles made up around 15% of new sales in Costa Rica in 2024, compared to 8% in the U.S., making it the Americas’ EV adoption leader," writes @andrewmoseman.bsky.social: heatmap.news/electric-veh...
- A new report from research firm Berg Insight "predicts almost 100,000 electric aircraft could be in operation by mid-century, as commercial operators look to cut costs and emissions and the private aviation market expands." www.businessgreen.com/news/4525049... via @james-bg.bsky.social 🔌💡
- ICYMI: An early look at draft policies that could be brought to the @airresources.bsky.social in 2027 to reduce emissions from the aviation industry in California: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/heres-how-ca... by me at Quitting Carbon 🔌💡
- "Congress has fully funded the Energy Star program through fiscal year 2026 as part of a funding bill that President Trump signed into law Jan. 23. The administration tried to zero-out the program in early 2025." www.utilitydive.com/news/energy-... via Joe Burns 🔌💡
- "The owners of a Colorado power unit say the Department of Energy violated their Constitutional rights when it ordered them to continue running a coal-fired generator they had been planning for years to retire at the end of 2025." www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-eme... via @ethanhowl.bsky.social 🔌💡
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- “We as a nation must act to change the trajectory of immigration enforcement in our country. America cannot survive as a free society if ICE and CBP continue to operate as they have over the last year,” writes @vermontgmg.bsky.social: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
- "This is what it looks like when ideology drives energy policy. Keeping money-losing plants online skews the market, making it harder for companies to invest in the infrastructure of the future." writes the @washingtonpost.com editorial board: wapo.st/4kkqSsj 🔌💡
- I've heard the same thing time and again from startups nurtured by grants from @calenergy.bsky.social's EPIC R&D program: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/californias-... 🔌💡
- “To say that we were a CARB-seeded company is an understatement. The CARB grant was the validation of our technology that we wanted to then raise private capital and actually really start a company,” actor and "CARB wonk" Edward Norton told @noahbaustin.bsky.social: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
- “To say that we were a CARB-seeded company is an understatement. The CARB grant was the validation of our technology that we wanted to then raise private capital and actually really start a company,” actor and "CARB wonk" Edward Norton told @noahbaustin.bsky.social: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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- Aviation is one of the most intractable climate puzzles to solve. So, it should be welcome news to policymakers everywhere that California regulators have stepped up to rein in emissions from the sector: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/heres-how-ca... by me at Quitting Carbon 🔌💡 #ClimateSky
- "Forgoing gas saves his company $3,000 per lot, and allowed it to deliver the sites to homebuilders more quickly, lowering construction costs and yielding a faster investment return." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/c... by @carabuckley.bsky.social 🔌💡
- My latest at Quitting Carbon: An early look at draft policies that could be brought to @airresources.bsky.social in 2027 to reduce emissions from the aviation industry in California: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/heres-how-ca... 🔌💡
- Thank you for speaking out on this, @stephenlacey.bsky.social, @scottclavenna.bsky.social, and @latitudemedia.bsky.social: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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- "Electric and gas utilities requested almost $31 billion worth of rate increases in 2025, according to an analysis by the energy policy nonprofit PowerLines released Thursday morning, compared to $15 billion worth of rate increases in 2024." heatmap.news/sparks/power... by @zeitlin.bsky.social 🔌💡
- "Across the country, tribal clean energy groups that have had federal funding taken away by the Trump administration are struggling with similar challenges — and looking for ways to salvage the work they’ve already begun," writes @jeffstjohn.bsky.social: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cli... 🔌💡
- "Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm, Thor, has received approval to begin supplying power. The wind farm, led by RWE, is expected to deliver green electricity to around one million households by 2027." stateofgreen.com/en/news/denm... via State of Green 🔌💡
- "The Department of Energy on Thursday confirmed the cancellation of a $1.8-billion clean energy loan commitment to Arizona Public Service, the largest investor-owned utility in that state." www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-nix... via @dianadigangi.bsky.social 🔌💡
- @americancleanpower.bsky.social: "Cancelling five major offshore wind projects could raise electricity costs for customers on the east coast by an estimated $45 billion over the next decade." cleanpower.org/news/new-ana... 🔌💡
- Trump officials have delayed finalizing the repeal of EPA’s 2009 “endangerment finding” because of concerns the proposal is too weak to withstand a court challenge, reports @jakespring.bsky.social: wapo.st/4riopkl
- "The main grid in Western Australia – the biggest isolated grid in the country and the world – has hit a remarkable new renewables peak of 91.1 per cent, driven entirely entirely by wind and solar, and mostly by rooftop PV." reneweconomy.com.au/worlds-bigge... via @gilesparkinson.bsky.social 🔌💡
- Here's a helpful explainer by @emilypont.bsky.social about how this Michigan antitrust lawsuit differs from the previous cases brought by cities and states against Big Oil: heatmap.news/climate/mich...
- "U.S. public charging networks had a growth spurt last year, according to a report released today by data analytics firm Paren. And the new chargers are working more reliably and being used more heavily than ever," reports @jeffstjohn.bsky.social: www.canarymedia.com/articles/ev-... 🔌💡
- "But under a new proposal before North Carolina regulators, [solar] project owners could lock in favorable long-term renewals pending one main condition: They have to add batteries." www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol... by @elizouzts.bsky.social 🔌💡
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- ICYMI: UK unveils Warm Homes Plan, U.S. and global transit expansion, research roundup, and more highlights from what I've been reading: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/what-im-read... 🔌💡
- The great post below by @parkermolloy.com touches on why I was so frustrated by the @politico.com White House team's failure to challenge the Trump administration's bogus energy affordability talking points: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/the-trump-ad... 🔌💡
- Congrats, Dave!! I edited @davekeating.substack.com's reporting and commentary for two years at Energy Monitor. He is a Brussels-watcher and analyst of transatlantic relations without peer. Buy his new book, The Owned Continent: theownedcontinent.eu
- "Civil prosecutions of illegal pollution plummeted to historically low levels during the first year of President Trump’s second administration," according to @peer.org: peer.org/under-epas-z...
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- "Winter Storm Fern is the latest proof America’s power grid can’t depend upon fossil fuels for reliable power, especially during extreme winter weather," writes @energyinnovation.org's @silviomarcacci.bsky.social: thepowerline.substack.com/p/fossil-fue... 🔌💡
- "The Victoria state government has announced that it now plans to hold the long awaited but delayed first auction for offshore wind farms in Australia in August this year, but is yet to finalise the details of its structure." reneweconomy.com.au/australias-f... via @gilesparkinson.bsky.social 🔌💡
- @ieefa-northamerica.bsky.social just launched a North American LNG Export Tracker: ieefa.org/north-americ... 🔌💡
