Jeff St John

Not to belabor the point here, but... how does any fossil gas power plant being built to serve Anthropic's AI compute expect Anthropic to be able to pay its electric bills ? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/t...

Ford's $28,350 Ford Fathom EV pickup will come with onboard power conversion tech that will slash the cost of setting it up as a home backup battery. Will other automakers join Ford and Tesla in pursuing AC V2H? And will utilities let them plug in? www.canarymedia.com/articles/ele... #energysky

New Mexico is beating its clean energy goals ahead of schedule — and on track to meet future growth with cleaner sources, too.

Of all the takes on BAAJA (the Senate permitting bill), I like @sammyroth.bsky.social's the best. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/permitting... #energysky

How would you share your home's solar, battery, and appliance power with your neighbors? This research project will enlist 200 California households to craft virtual power plant programs that work for them, and then model how they help the grid: californiawire.substack.com/p/what-kind-... #energysky

Google is targeting a gigawatt of virtual power plant capacity from homes and businesses to offset data center impacts in the country’s biggest and most data center-impacted energy market. Here's how the tech giant and VPP partner Voltus plan to do it: www.canarymedia.com/articles/vir... #energysky

New York state has finally approved its first two utility thermal energy network pilot projects — a big step in testing how utilities can build a business replacing gas pipelines with underground networks that enable more efficient electric heat pumps: www.canarymedia.com/articles/geo... #energysky

OK, Duke Energy - you've been telling us you'll do a clean transition tariff for years, but you keep not doing it. Do you really mean it this time? I have my doubts - but I'm eager to be proven wrong! www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat... #energysky

Data centers need emergency backup power — AND, as they've grown big enough to disrupt power grids, they must find tech to prevent those disruptions. ON.Energy's AI UPS is one of a new class of batteries designed to solve both problems: www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat... #energysky

Grid batteries are safer than ever, but high-profile fires at Moss Landing and other California sites have sparked fears. Here's how clean energy groups are building trust and support for projects vital to getting cleaner, more reliable energy: californiawire.substack.com/p/what-to-sa... #energysky

Every state should require every utility to offer every household this smart, simple, and straightforward gas-to-electrification option — get a gas line upgrade, or get the equivalent cash to go all-electric. No forced switching, just customer choice: www.canarymedia.com/articles/ele... #energysky

U.S. green banks enabled $12.4B in clean energy and climate projects in 2024 and 2025, like this community solar array for New Orleans’ Sisters of the Holy Family. Now, can they win back $27B in federal funds stolen by the Trump administration? www.canarymedia.com/articles/cli... #energysky

California's slow transmission grid buildout is holding back gigawatts of much-needed clean energy. This week's California Wire examines a new law that gives state agencies more power to keep utilities on track — and why that's so important: californiawire.substack.com/p/getting-ca... #energysky

Tesla may be late to vehicle-to-home (V2H) charging compared to rivals like GM, Nissan and Kia. But Tesla has also made its EVs capable of delivering home- and grid-ready AC power, bypassing the costly DC chargers other EVs need to power homes: www.canarymedia.com/articles/ele... #energysky

California Gov. Gavin Newsom defied political expectations Wednesday by signing a raft of bills aimed at curbing utility spending and boosting the role of household battery and smart thermostat-based virtual power plants to bring down electricity costs: www.canarymedia.com/articles/vir... #energysky

The Senate energy permitting bill unveiled Wednesday contains a raft of transmission permitting, planning and cost-allocation reforms that experts say could dramatically boost grid buildouts and clean energy capacity — if it can be passed into law: www.canarymedia.com/articles/tra... #energysky

California must push down electric truck prices to meet its clean freight goals. Backers of a new law hope its pricing transparency rules can both curb overcharging by truck manufacturers and bring light to a now-murky EV truck financing scene: californiawire.substack.com/p/electric-t... #energysky

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

The Trump administration has awarded $1.9B to boost projects using transmission grid tech like dynamic line rating and advanced conductors—a big boost for a class of tech experts say could dramatically expand U.S. grid capacity if deployed at scale: www.canarymedia.com/articles/tra... #energysky

After a federal judge ruled that EPA's killing of the $7B Solar for All program was illegal, nonprofits and companies are ready to restart projects to help low-income residents—if the Trump administration obeys a court order to give them the money: www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol... #energysky

PG&E and Google's new Silicon Valley VPP sounds great. Who's against Google paying for solar-charged home batteries and battery-backed HVAC? But the plan ignores the elephant in the room—the grid impacts of Google's planned 250MW compute lab: californiawire.substack.com/p/pg-and-e-g... #energysky

Don't worry about the fantasy killer robot superintelligences. The real threat is the idiot madmen deluded enough to believe they're capable of building them, and willing to destroy the world to get there: calnewport.com/superintelli...

New York City needs more batteries. But a yearlong fight between utility ConEd and battery developers has frozen community battery projects. ConEd says its grid is threatened. Developers say ConEd wants more profits. When will state regulators step in? www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat... #energysky

PS - California WIre is also live at @canarymedia.com — check out my take on outgoing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s poor record on enabling distributed energy to curb utility rates, and his last chance to sign bills that could put us back on track: www.canarymedia.com/articles/aff...

California Wire, Canary Media’s new weekly newsletter, is live! In this edition, I take on outgoing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s poor record on enabling distributed energy to curb utility rates, and his last chance to sign bills that could put us back on track: californiawire.substack.com

What if our current AI "moment" is functionally equivalent to what would have happened if you had given Scientology a trillion dollars and said, "Go create the digital L. Ron god" and then, "try to find a way for people to pay for its services" ... ??? www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

California Wire californiawire.substack.com?r=jae5i&utm_...

California Wire, Canary Media's new weekly newsletter dedicated to unraveling the complexities of the Golden State's energy transition, launches TOMORROW! I can't wait to share my California clean energy and climate policy obsessions. Sign up and join in! californiawire.substack.com #energysky

Good morning team. Republicans want to cook the planet.

Gavin Newsom ends eight years as California’s governor with a complicated climate legacy. Critics laud his clean energy successes, but say he abandoned key promises—and undermined distributed energy's potential—under oil industry and utility pressure: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle... #energysky

Don't miss this energy-climate-politics explainer event! Covering Climate does such a great job conveying the core concepts of climate complexity — and my Canary Media colleague Julian Spector is both a savvy analyst and sartorial sensei... ;-) coveringclimatenow.org/event/rising...

"I don’t think anything like this has ever happened in mainstream American politics. It is as if the Republican Party has simply given in to the fact that it is little more than a cult of personality centered on an aging celebrity real estate developer." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

A federal court has ruled that DOE acted illegally to force a Michigan coal plant to stay open last year — a potentially major blow to the Trump administration's use of 'emergency' power to prop up aging, costly fossil fuel power plants: www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos... #energysky

The Trump admin has issued a national emergency declaration that aims to ban a range of grid tech from China — including batteries. That's put gigawatts of U.S. battery projects on uncertain legal ground while they wait for DOE to explain the rules: www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat... #energysky

Next Wednesday, Canary Media launches California Wire, our weekly newsletter bringing you the latest developments in the state’s sometimes bold, sometimes halting, progress toward a vibrant and equitable energy transition. Click to subscribe! californiawire.substack.com/p/welcome-to... #energysky

"The reaction really warms our hearts.” Meet the teens solving hunger, one slice at a time. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Interregional HVDC lines could yield huge long-term benefits by linking grids across multiple time zones—if they can get financed and permitted. North Plains Connector has won DOE backing from both Biden and Trump admins to push through those barriers: www.canarymedia.com/articles/tra... #energysky

California lawmakers failed to overcome opposition from Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration to fund Demand Side Grid Support, the state's premiere virtual power plant program, leaving one of the country's biggest home battery grid resources in limbo: www.canarymedia.com/articles/vir... #energysky

California’s New Gas Pipeline Alternative: Just Paying You #energysky -- via Heatmap News heatmap.news/daily/c...

California lawmakers failed to overcome opposition from Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration to fund Demand Side Grid Support, the state's premiere virtual power plant program, leaving one of the country's biggest home battery grid resources in limbo: www.canarymedia.com/articles/vir... #energysky

Pathetic -- Google is now referring to Lake Ontario as "Lake America"

Google are really the biggest bunch of losers. Pathetic.

The cost for new gas-fired capacity is now roughly triple the cost of projects built in the early 2020s. Those costs will inevitably be passed on to consumers, either through local utilities' regulated rates or higher power prices in competitive markets. buff.ly/yXLRTaw

Wow: the federal government is paying MAGA influencers on X and other social media to post pro-regime propaganda. Actual paid crisis actors. Incredible reporting here. wapo.st/4x0p3pf

Last chance this week for California lawmakers to rescue the most-saving, climate-benefiting virtual power plant program that Gavin Newsom keeps inexplicably trying to kill: www.canarymedia.com/articles/vir... via @jeffstjohn.bsky.social

"Last year, California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a slate of bills meant to expand virtual power plants that could offset the state’s fast-rising electricity costs. Will he do the same this year?" An update by @jeffstjohn.bsky.social on Senate bills 905 and 913: www.canarymedia.com/articles/vir... 🔌💡

FIRST ON CBS NEWS: A history of hiring prostitutes or stealing from work may no longer be a barrier to employment at the FBI.

Last year, California Gov. Newsom vetoed bills promoting home batteries, smart thermostats, and EV chargers as virtual power plants to curb energy costs. This year, two more pro-VPP bills — SB 913 and SB 905 — appear likely to pass. Will he sign them? www.canarymedia.com/articles/vir... #energysky

PJM has cleared 50+ GW of projects, with #solar, #wind and #batteries making up the vast majority, per @rockymtninst.bsky.social data. via @jeffstjohn.bsky.social in @canarymedia.com www.canarymedia.com/articles/ene...