Husband, Dad, Batteries
Santa Barbara, CA
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Tim Hade retweeted
“Battery fires are like shark attacks: frightening events that loom cinematically large in the American psyche and almost never actually happen.” As US grid batteries surge, risk of fires plummets @CanaryMediaInc canarymedia.com/articles/bat… #energy #BESS #batteries
I'm so proud of my friend and neighbor @leahstokes for the release of her latest book, The Carbon Wave.
Many people know Leah was one of the key leaders behind the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. Far fewer know she did a lot of that work in the midst of a high-risk pregnancy.
The Carbon Wave is a book about passing the largest climate law in US history.
But it’s also a book about the real lives of the people who made it happen. Leah wasn't the only one balancing both. Somehow, policy leadership and navigating personal challenges happened at the same time, and Leah’s book tells us how.
It's an incredible read.
Tim Hade retweeted
Shout out my guy @rmcentush on the great piece around why it's not as simple as ordering a bunch of equipment and 'plugging it in' for data centers - grid or BTM. This is helpful for laymen and experts, both! Visuals are great.
Lucky to see early version of the piece and Ryan spent a ton of time distilling A LOT of info into a clean, punchy piece. Worth your time.
Very cool @PremierLacrosse effort to help support a great cause.
🤙 @PaulRabil
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Tim Hade retweeted
On September 11, we #GoSilent to remember.
At 3 p.m. local time, join IAVA in a moment of silence to honor the promise we made as a nation: never forget.
Pledge to #GoSilent with IAVA on September 11 at 3 p.m. local time — tfaforms.com/5231493
#IAVA #GoSILENT
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Tim Hade retweeted
A few months ago, I started working on the question of what DERs were actually worth to the grid. This question led me down a deep rabbit hole of grid data, most of which couldn't actually answer the questions that I had. I started building my own data layers. A grid digital twin
Tim Hade retweeted
The reform agenda:
Near-term: unlock latent grid capacity through grid-enhancing technologies and demand flexibility, not a full solution but can help as a bridge
Medium-term: address utility disincentive to invest in optimization, structure large load tariffs (network upgrades + retail) so DC's can build faster without putting undue costs on ratepayers, unblock interconnection and permitting so supply can come online to meet demand
Long-term: manage storm, wildfire, and cyber risk proactively, not reactively
When do I get my trophy? @dylan522p
"Ultimately grid power, not jet engines, delivered the first gigawatt data center"!
Everyone getting a lesson in why it's not a walk in the park to set up your own microgrid to get power.
It only ever made sense because of the time to power benefit. Most of these guys, if not all, STILL WANT GRID POWER. They're doing the bridge stuff to accelerate their time to power but eventually want that interconnect.
Provisioning your own redundancy is operationally complex + expensive.
Tim Hade retweeted
If you live in California like me, it's election season. I'm voting for 3 climate champions: Tom Steyer for Governor, Josh Fryday for Lt. Governor and Ben Allen for Insurance Commissioner. Get out there and vote!
Tim Hade retweeted
It’s like we need an actual strategy or something.
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Tim Hade retweeted
you won't have to pay because @Halcyon will sponsor and maybe we can get @dwarkesh_sp to host ... it will be fun and we will all be smarter for it
cc: @maxwellfarrens
Tim Hade retweeted
Tesla Semi is a really big deal.
Tim Hade retweeted
The biggest challenge with all the talk about data center load growth is that there is likely 80+% of requests that are either duplicated or just straight up not true. Too much junk in the queue and no legal right to discriminate against the unqualified and/or uncapitalized is jacking up the system.
Tim Hade retweeted
Most data center projects are “GW scale campuses” in the same way most guys on Hinge are 6 foot tall.
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Non-firm service
This is the way
I completely understand why grid operators want datacenters to operate flexibly.
BUT....their use of each MWh is very valuable (well, at least I hope it's valuable someday).
So shouldn't we be looking for flexibility from less-valuable uses of electricity (e.g. things that are easy to schedule, so as water treatment, water heating, EV charging, etc.)?
