{"id":12313,"date":"2019-11-13T19:19:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T19:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=12313"},"modified":"2019-11-13T19:19:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T19:19:16","slug":"updates-from-energy-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/13\/updates-from-energy-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates From Energy Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"There are many people posting energy news on Twitter, loosely called \u2018Energy Twitter.\u2019 On my Twitter feed, I follow many clean-energy folks like Stanford professor Mark Jacobson @mzjacobson, Mike Bloomberg\u2019s @BeyondCarbon, the CEO of Proterra electric buses, @rcpopple, the Microgrid Institute @microgridinst, and @Greentechmedia. (If you think Twitter is not something you can do, see below for how easy it is.)i<\/sup> I thought I would share with you several different postings I encountered this week that add up to a big picture.<\/p>\n

I ran across Mark Jacobson\u2019s Twitter posting of a link to the newly released Lazard\u2019s Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis, Version 13.0, <\/em>\u201cwhich shows that, as the cost of renewable energy continues to decline, certain technologies (e.g. onshore wind and utility-scale solar), which became cost-competitive with conventional generation several years ago on a new-build basis, continue to maintain competitiveness\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Through Twitter, I also ran across the article, Colorado\u2019s cleanest energy options are also its cheapest,<\/em><\/strong>2<\/sup><\/em> which illustrates exactly the benefit from the huge drop in wind and solar costs in a short amount of time (the Lazard report\u2019s statistics). Colorado is pretty similar to Idaho; great wind and solar resources, which have been relatively untapped to date, but the potential that \u201cColorado could save $2.5 billion through 2040 by shutting down all its coal plants.\u201d3<\/sup> Idaho ratepayers have already saved $17.5 million by Idaho Power shutting down a few coal plants. I loved this statement by this article\u2019s author, \u201cThe world may be a raging dumpster fire, but Colorado has the potential to be an island of sanity, moving toward a cleaner, cheaper, healthier energy system in a way that benefits all state residents.\u201d<\/p>\n

The difference between Colorado and Idaho though is that Colorado is actually doing something toward their clean-energy targets, like legislation to expand Electric Vehicle adoption, whereas Idaho Power has a clean-energy target by 2045 but, so far as I can see, has not started on a roadmap of how to get there. From @microgridnews, a tweet shared the news that Tata Power in India is installing 10,000 microgrids to bring power to 5 million people. (In contrast, Idaho doesn\u2019t have one microgrid installed that I know about.)<\/p>\n

Finally, I have re-tweeted the link to an incredibly positive TED talk by Christiana Figueres in which she talks about the journey from 2009 Copenhagen, where a climate agreement failed miserably, to 2015 Paris, where 195 governments unanimously adopted one.4<\/sup> This talk can give us all hope that things can change in a relatively short amount of time; costs can drop exponentially, ratepayers can benefit from improved technologies, and the world can agree on priorities and change direction from the carbon-pollution-as-usual system. Idaho, can we join this positive direction with more than lip service?<\/p>\n

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[1] www.lazard.com\/perspective\/levelized-cost-of-energy-and-levelized-cost-of-storage-2019\/<\/p>\n

2 www.vox.com\/platform\/amp\/energy-and-environment\/20…_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&_twitter_impression=true<\/p>\n

3 Ibid<\/p>\n

4 Ted.com\/talks\/christianafigueres via @TEDtalks<\/p>\n

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i The Twitter app is free to download on your phone, and is super-easy to use, just give yourself a handle name with the @ in front, and you can search topics with the magnifying glass, find breaking news, and find interesting conversation threads. Start to follow others; follow me @kikitidwell.<\/p>\n

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