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Joined April 2010
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"Changes to the federal policy landscape and rapid load growth projections have led utilities and developers to recalibrate toward deploying traditional dispatchable resources like natural gas, resulting in clean power growth slowing from its 2024 peak...
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However, the deployment of gas-fired generation faces headwinds, including turbine shortages and the potential for natural gas price volatility, which could drive up the Levelized Cost of Energy for gas plants, the report noted."🏭🔌
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"...heat pumps — which transfer warmth from outdoor air to an indoor space, instead of generating it like a furnace — don’t work when it gets really cold out. That’s incorrect, as models designed for frigid climes can keep you toasty even in the dead of winter."🔥🔌
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"A University of Missouri study examines the economic impact of renewable energy in rural areas. New research shows wind and solar farms can bring economic gains to rural communities." "James Owen is the executive director of Renew Missouri...
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"America is adding record amounts of clean power despite President Trump's opposition to wind and solar — but the industry's top trade group warns the growth could fall off a "cliff" as soon as 2028." ⚡ ‼️ axios.com/2026/09/30/renewab…
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"Since May 2025, the Energy Department has repeatedly issued emergency orders to keep nine coal-burning units at six plants operating long past their scheduled retirement dates...
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...The orders have sometimes come over the protests of the plant’s owners and are expected to cost ratepayers hundreds of millions of dollars." ‼️ 🏭
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"President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he has approved new fuel economy standards for passenger vehicles, in another move meant to take aim at Biden-era policies supporting electric vehicles." 🚗 🔌 ‼️ politico.com/news/2026/09/26…
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"The war in Iran has...pushed the world toward coal. The International Energy Agency has reversed its projection that global coal demand would decline this year. It now expects coal consumption to rise 1.2% from 2025 to a new record high." 🏭 📈
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"The effects of the U.S.-led war on Iran are about to intensify in the form of huge jumps in the prices of gasoline and diesel...And despite the Trump administration’s assurances, a new and potentially even more economically damaging phase of the war may be about to begin." 📈 🏭
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"The United States will no longer limit the planet-warming pollution that power plants pump into the air while burning coal and gas, the Trump administration announced Monday." 🏭 ‼️ nytimes.com/2026/09/13/clima…
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"The list of trade barriers grows every day, in countries around the world, ensnaring an electrification supply chain that is crucial to slashing global fossil fuel use, meeting rising power demand and staunching the rise of electricity bills." ☀️ ‼️
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"The war in Iran has now cost U.S. consumers $100 billion in higher energy prices, and the bill is rising another $1 million about every two minutes, per a real-time estimate from Brown University as of Monday morning." 💸 📈 axios.com/2026/09/07/iran-ga…
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