Excellent news for Brian Goldsmith running in open CA (Democratic) Senate District 24 (CA State Senate districts are huge.) Brand new IE poll (from respected D firm GS) shows Brian surging into lead, 9 points ahead of next 2 Dems (who lag in 4th/5th). Top 2 = runoff

Today, the Utilize Coalition officially launches. America's electric grid operates at just 53% of capacity on average. Nearly half of the generation, transmission, and distribution infrastructure Americans have already paid for sits idle for much of the year — while electricity bills keep rising and demand is about to surge like nothing the grid has seen in a generation. Soon-to-be-released independent research from @TheBrattleGroup, commissioned by Utilize and @GridLabEnergy, finds that improving grid utilization could save U.S. consumers more than $100 billion on electricity bills over the next decade. The opportunity is real. The technologies to capture it already exist. What's been missing is a coordinated effort to put grid utilization at the center of how we plan, invest, and build. That's what Utilize is here to do. We're proud to launch with seven founding members who are already putting this to work — @teslaenergy, @carrier, @Google, Renew Home, Sparkfund, SPAN, and Verrus — representing batteries, smart home systems, flexible data center load, intelligent HVAC, residential virtual power plants, and grid-interactive data centers. Different technologies. One shared principle: get more from what we've already built. Learn more and join us: utilizecoalition.org/

Pretty sweet. Texas developer HGP proposes repurposing decommissioned Navy reactors for Oak Ridge data center, targeting 450-520MW by 2029. Cost: $1M-4M/MW vs new build, requiring $1.8B-2.1B infrastructure capital plus DOE loan guarantee. Navy carriers/subs use dual A4W (Westinghouse) or S8G (GE) reactors. Unproven regulatory path but addresses baseload gap faster than new nuclear or gas plants.

Donald Trump is weaponizing the federal government against California. And the same old Sacramento politics isn’t delivering for our state. We need new voices and new ideas to get better results. That’s why I’m running for the CA State Senate.