Charitra Adhikari, MS, MBA’s Post

We all know that solar and wind are key renewable energy sources. Another source you may be less familiar with are Thermal Energy Networks, a way to decarbonize buildings at neighborhood scale using sources like waste heat from wastewater, data processing centers, the subway and geothermal boreholes. Read more about them and projects National Grid is proposing in my op-ed with Alberto Bianchetti. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

"Here in New York, we are lucky to have citizens, activists, labor unions, elected officials, scientists and businesses alike who are committed to leading the way toward a clean energy future." In a new opinion piece for syracuse.com, NYLCV President Julie Tighe joins Alberto Bianchetti (Regional Director of External and Customer Affairs for National Grid's Central NY Division) in writing about the promising future of renewable energy in New York. Notable among emerging energy technology is the thermal energy network (TEN). "TENs make incredibly efficient use of electricity, reducing emissions today as we work toward a 100% clean electric grid, and locking in carbon-free heat for the future." The time to take action towards clean energy development is now. Read the full opinion on syracuse.com's website.

Erie Times: Wave Energy Converter To Be Tested On Lake Erie This Summer  https://lnkd.in/eH_eTc92

A real privilege to attend the 2024 European Energy Policy Conference last week, hosted by Copenhagen Business School in collaboration with University of Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and DTU - Technical University of Denmark. Great to catch up with Andrew Garrick PhD and Amanda Gregor as well. Some fascinating presentations and discussions on the challenges of upgrading electricity grids across North American and European state boundaries; the relative merits of “UK CfDs” versus “European CfDs”; lowest total cost (marginal) curtailment of renewables and many other topics. All in all, a good test of the grey matter - and a great opportunity for Daniel Gear and I to discuss findings from our recent Just Transition report (see previous posts) with some leading thinkers in energy policy. It’s clear that "Just Transition" means different things in different places: in some areas its overwhelmingly about replacing oil and gas jobs, and in others (like Shetland) the question “Who should benefit from the resources of a place?” is more critical. The Voar view is that for the energy transition to be fair as well as fast, communities hosting energy projects need to receive a fair share of the resource value - and what that looks like will vary across countries, sectors and projects. This is an area we’re continuing to work on, so please do get in touch if you're interested to collaborate. #EnergyPolicy #JustTransition #MedLovSkalManLandBygge

In the episode of This Week In Energy: Newsmaker Interview sponsored by US Energy Media: Human Trafficking, Pornography Issues Increase in the Bakken - Stacy Schaffer discusses the 31:8 Project (Thirty-One Eight) and the need for more human trafficking education in energy communities. Petro Profile sponsored by The Crude Life: Kansas is the Canary in the Energy Trends Mine - Warren Martin, Kansas Strong: The KS Oil & Gas Resources Fund, has given over 200 educational presentations in a year! Martin explains how Kansas, the 11th ranked oil and gas producing state can become an early indicator for the overall industry. Emerging Energies sponsored by The Carbon Conversation: The Carbon Management Industry is Here - Jared Walker discusses carbon storage and management. Walker is the Director of Project Development for Carbonvert Inc.. The Energy Detox with Joe Sinnott, CEO, Witting Partners LLC compares the NFL Draft to workplace culture and social energy. “Key to getting ready for any new season is de-cluttering and getting rid of crap you don't need, which is easier said than done in life and business… let alone the NFL,” Sinnott said. Energy Influencer sponsored by Dwayne Farris BCK9 Services and Pipeline Leak Detection: Energy Expert Robert Bryce is in Colorado discussing how the once Purple State is now a Blue Battleground in Energy. International Energy sponsored by ESG University: Terry Etam, author of The End of the Fossil Fuel Insanity: Clearing the Air Before Cleaning the Air'; columnist for the BOE Report and blogger for Public Energy Number One; gives an update from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Sustainable Solutions sponsored by The Industrial Forest: Clint K. of Shepherd VR discusses some news changes happening in the world of Virtual Reality. Kling has developed a number of VR Training programs for the mining industry and has also collaborated with the South Dakota School of Mines. Women in Energy sponsored by The Oilwoman Magazine: Drug Testing in the Energy Industry: Vickie Schmidt, Schmidt and Associates explains how her company is assisting energy companies with drug testing and screening. The interview with filmmaker and National Energy Talk host Mark A. Stansberry started off discussing a shared petro-powered experience involving motion pictures and media. Barry Smitherman is the Chairman, President, and co-founder of the Texas Geothermal Energy Alliance (TXGEA), an organization dedicated to education, public awareness, and advocacy on behalf of the Texas geothermal industry. Music heard on This Week In Energy by singer songwriter Alma Cook and independent funk fusion group known as The Moody River Band. Support Alma Cook's energy job at Cook Compliance Solutions Everyday your story is being told by someone. Who is telling your story? Who are you telling your story to? https://lnkd.in/gGf4jV4N

I can't underestimate the importance of carrying out this work, especially in the context of AI & data center growth, a topic of great interest at Ralph O'Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI) and of great importance to the State of Maryland & PJM (just today it was brought up in two calls with reps from both communities). Plus, it was a great pleasure to work with Sarah Sofia, Lee Taylor and other people at REsurety. Our main conclusion: Without accounting for intra-regional congestion, matching policies severely underestimate the net induced carbon emissions on the grid. And we provide numerical estimates for ERCOT and PJM Interconnection. More to be done, but for now you're invited to read the brief linked below and the full paper linked here: https://lnkd.in/e3RXzcAx

The whole REsurety team and I are super proud of the recently published work by our own Sarah Sofia along with her co-author Uzi (Yury) Dvorkin from The Johns Hopkins University. This work illustrates the complexities of modern grid transmission systems and their impact on the efficacy of carbon policy under real-world conditions. Specifically, this paper provides data-driven support for the realities that: • Transmission congestion is a large and growing contributor to the operational emissions of the grid - and must be prioritized as a critical factor in the energy transition. • The assumption that grid regions can serve as a viable proxy for "deliverability" is invalid for many if not most locations - and will likely remain invalid until and unless we find a way to develop transmission much more quickly than history suggests we are capable of. • Where you locate consumption and carbon-free energy (CFE) generation within a grid region is often dramatically more impactful on real-world carbon emissions than whether or not you hourly match that consumption and generation, and as such effective carbon policies must incentivize consumption and CFE generation siting that is aware of the carbon impacts of transmission congestion. We very much appreciate the support from the ZEROgrid Independent Advisory Initiative whose advisors unanimously supported this research (Wilson Ricks from Princeton University, Ruaridh Macdonald from MIT Energy Initiative, and Gavin McCormick from WattTime.org. Special thanks to RMI's Stephen Abbott, among others, who have helped coordinate the expert consensus-building efforts of the ZEROgrid initiative). Access the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/en4ingzi Abbreviated summary available here: https://lnkd.in/eiS4Y9QU

The two-page abbreviated brief for the study - Carbon Impact of Intra-Regional Transmission Congestion - really is a great way to understand a complex topic. https://lnkd.in/e8ghAyHx

https://lnkd.in/g2i8nj6q We need to pressure the CPUC and IOUs like PG&E to adopt "reconductoring" ASAP. Restringing transmission lines with more advanced wires, a process known as “reconductoring,” has the potential to double the amount of electricity our existing transmission system can handle, for less than half the price of building new lines. That’s the main finding of a recently published working paper from researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and Gridlab, an energy consulting firm. There are a few reasons that something as boring and seemingly ubiquitous as power lines are so crucial to the energy transition. Electrifying our cars and homes will increase demand for electricity, and much of the system is already too congested to integrate new wind and solar power plants. Plus, there just aren’t enough lines that run from the sunniest, windiest places to the places where most people actually live. To realize the emission reduction potential of the clean energy subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act, we have to more than double the rate of transmission expansion, according to research from Princeton University’s Repeat Project. Clean energy projects already face major delays and are often hit with exorbitant bills to connect to the grid. A study from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory called “Queued Up” found that at the end of 2022, there were more than 10,000 power plant and energy storage projects waiting for permission to connect to the grid — enough to double electricity production in the country. Some 95% of them were zero-carbon resources.

Restringing transmission lines with more advanced wires, a process known as “reconductoring,” has the potential to double the amount of electricity our existing transmission system can handle, for less than half the price of building new lines. That’s the main finding of a recently published working paper from researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and Gridlab, an energy consulting firm. There are a few reasons that something as boring and seemingly ubiquitous as power lines are so crucial to the energy transition. Electrifying our cars and homes will increase demand for electricity, and much of the system is already too congested to integrate new wind and solar power plants. Plus, there just aren’t enough lines that run from the sunniest, windiest places to the places where most people actually live.