Ric O'Connell
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Executive Director of @GridLabEnergy. Board member @EnergySystemsIG. Dad. Aussie. Decarbonization and Electrification.
Oakland, CA
Joined May 2013
@GridLabEnergy and @UCBerkeley released an important new report today showing how the US can get to 90 percent clean energy by 2035. #2035report
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@ChargePointnet can you fix the station in the Oxford St. Garage in downtown Berkeley, CA? address is 2165 Kittredge St, 94704. It's been down for years. There are two stations in the garage, one has been working fine, the other has never worked. It just sits at the boot screen.
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@SolarInMASS You need a site controller. This could be a SCADA system, or some inverter OEM's like SMA make a site controller. But this is something every utility scale solar plant should have. 25 MW is utility scale. It manages the inverters, controls ramp rates, limits the POI, etc
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This is heartwarming to see. No on GG and HH. Bad policy.
Berkeley voters should reject Measures GG and HH: Berkeley Measures GG and HH illustrate how good intentions without evidence-based implementation plans can do more harm than good.
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3/ This has been a strong partnership between @GridLabEnergy , @GridworksOrg and Energy Strategies. Join us for a webinar on October 8th to dig deeper into what a new grid for the West will look like, details on the site.
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@TKavulla RTOs should trust their markets more. And stop whining that the EPA is breaking them.
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Important piece of work out of @DukeU on flexible interconnection. Definitely a tool we can use to streamline and reduce costs for interconnection.
New study 🚨Tomorrow @FERC I'll present findings of a new electricity simulation analysis by @DukeU's GRACE Lab on potential cost benefits of flexible interconnection service. Results🧵(1/9): • 72% lower grid upgrade costs • 75% fewer grid overloads • $112/kW avoided costs
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@emilypont No, Especially if you just want home backup. 2 power walls installed are $25K and a Model 3 is $42K. (both pre incentive) The power walls are 27kWh, model 3 is 82kWh. So that's $925/kWh (pwall) vs $512/kWh (M3) and you get a car! Why would you ever just buy the battery alone?
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This is the correct take on nuclear's demise. It was not enviros. Too many EPCs and reactor vendors took on fixed price contracts and couldn't handle construction inflation. The industry was fragmented (nearly a dozen major vendors). Management was terrible. It was a mess.
My father was a post-doc nuclear physicist working on civilian nukes in the 1960s when nuclear power was in its heyday. The reasons for its demise have very little to do with the common narratives of "environmentalists blocked it," or whatever. The industry slit its own throat.
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@RKonidena @tylerhnorris @JesseJenkins @Nickoliah_B @AdvEnergyUnited @USEnergyHarry @baker_bryn @BrianJanous My sense is that many of these projects are waiting for local TOs to finish upgrades. So they have a signed IA but still can’t plug in. @AbeEnergy did a great survey on this issue.
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@WarrenJWells Parking! It’s the. Umber one determinant of whether you will drive. Thanks Donald Shoup!
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