Eric Wesoff

@ewesoff

Renewable energy journalist, former editor and employee No. 1 at Greentech Media, former editor at pv magazine, industry gadfly. Brooklyn, NY then La Honda, Ca.

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Joined August 2009
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    Mar 12

    New analysis: of the existing US coal fleet, 27% can be retired, without being replaced, with no harm to reserve margins. Another 29% could be replaced with wind & solar, with no additional balancing resources.

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    Mar 10

    My colleagues at RMI are out with two interesting and instructive reports today looking at the the resource margin implications of retiring excess coal and how to build more clean energy with all-source procurements.

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  3. Mar 10

    Tesla admits its Full Self-Driving technology is a Level 2 system

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    Mar 10

    As the US moves toward an increasingly decarbonized and modern grid, utility procurement practices must evolve to better accommodate all resource types. Learn more from & :

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    Mar 10

    It’s time to . New RMI analysis finds that the US can easily retire 56% of legacy coal plants by 2025 and still keep the lights on — economically — with wind and solar energy ☀️💨

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    Mar 10

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    Mar 9

    Ok so hear me out If 99% of what you do is create pollution & 1% of what you do is take pollution pump it underground & mostly use that process to produce more pollution what does that make you? Most definitely not a ‘pollution fighter’ 🤦‍♂️

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    Mar 8

    Things I learned from 's Executive Factbook by : California got 26% of its electricity from solar in 2020 (and this has suppressed realized power prices by 30% vs round-the-clock average). Bloody hell that's a lot already.

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    Mar 7

    The "Temple of Diana" in Nîmes, France: despite its modern name, the enigmatic 1st century AD structure with its wall niches is now thought more likely to be a section of an ancient library - an incredibly rare survival from the Roman world if true. (Reconstruction by JR Casals)

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    Mar 7

    THIS WHAT IS HAPPENING IN SENEGAL RIGHT NOW AS WE SPEAK. MAKE SURE YOU SPREAD THZ WORD

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    Mar 6

    Really excited about this investment. High temp superconducting tech is transformative tech. And moving massive amounts of power through small wires is a transformative application. Watch this company.

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    Mar 5

    Love to share the road with my fellow untrained consumers testing janky "Full Self-Driving Beta" software in 6,000 lb vehicles that can do 0-60 in 3 seconds.

    If you want the Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta downloaded to your car, let us know. Doubling beta program size now with 8.2 & probably 10X size with 8.3. Still be careful, but it’s getting mature.
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    Mar 2

    1/Alright this is an experiment, probably my most obscure thread to date, but I want to talk about one of the step-change tech breakthroughs being applied to geothermal that is transforming the sector: the polycrystalline diamond cutter (PDC) drill bit. THREAD:

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  15. Mar 2

    Climate Change is Tightening Insurance Markets. That’s No Good for the Solar Industry

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  16. Feb 28

    IKEA completes first MW-scale solar carport in US market

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    Feb 26

    Utility scale renewable finance needs to be reimagined. The capital stack for renewable projects has traditionally been tax equity, back leverage/debt, and project equity — supported by two primary ways to create revenue: 1. long term PPA’s and 2. long term hedges. 1/

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    Feb 27
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    Point source CCS retrofit on a 70’s era coal plant will need 90+% CF’s and $100/MWh to pencil. It’s being pushed in a region that doesn’t fully utilize existing wind & has Tx constraints inhibiting further wind/solar.

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  19. Feb 26

    North Dakota Officials Block Wind Power In Effort To Save Coal

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    Feb 26

    U.S. solar people! How would you define "community solar" in a tweet? FYI my personal working definition is "a mainly-US-specific utility-scale solar plant where everyone sings kumbaya on commissioning and gets special subsidies for it", so I'm sure you can do better.

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