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@Astoll15

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

3 months

The amount of folks that think this is some kind of gotcha is sad, critical thinking is dead lol. Beyond disgustingly jumping on a natural disaster, how many power plants can take a direct hit from a tornado and keep operating? Also, it’s much less detrimental to the system to

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@accuweather

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Multiple wind turbines at an Iowa wind farm were destroyed by a tornado on Tuesday afternoon, leaving behind burning wreckage. #IAwx

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

7 years

@shaunapauli @nihilistic_dad On behalf of SDSU, we're sorry, this does not reflect all of us.

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

3 months

@PenseeMagique Yeah, nuclear definitely gets the closest and has a great track record, but even NPPs can be susceptible to extreme events

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3 months

@Astoll15 None;

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

3 months

Just to reiterate: let go of your tribalism and let’s build a resilient system.

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

3 months

I’m in a real bad place. Not mentally, just in the interconnection queue

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

9 months

My brother in Christ, literally everyone is talking about this

Brian Sullivan

@SullyCNBC

9 months

Everyone talking the coming boom in AI and data centers. Maybe not enough talking about where all that new electricity is going to come from to power 'em

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

6 years

ihob stand for "international house on the boulavard of broken dreams where the city sleeps and I'm the only one and I walK alone... na na.. na na.. na na... naaa... na na... na.. na... MY SHADOWS THE ONLY ONE THAT WALKS BESIDE ME MY SHALLOW HEARTS THE ONLY THING THAT'S BEA"

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

6 months

Beyond being woefully incorrect on basically every piece of this post (moving energy through time to when it’s most useful isn’t providing value??) they also state that storage won’t be enough to soak up negative pricing and that storage cannibalizes itself so it won’t be

Pendulum Flow

@PendulumFlow

6 months

Why batteries can't fix the issues with renewable energy 🪫💔 Let's think this through... 🤔 Arbitrage extracts value (buying low and selling high). It doesn't create value. Who pays for the value that is extracted? Arbitrage can only close to the point where the gap = cost

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

3 months

@SavageOnTheSun And it still only lost 3 turbines (~6MWs), talk about resiliency!

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

7 months

Behind 90% of nukebros is an anti-renewables advocate. As a grid planner who sees the value nuclear brings to the grid, I sure wish the nuclear industry could focus on executing successful projects so that nuclear can the play the clean-firm role that it’s sorely needed for

chris keefer

@Dr_Keefer

7 months

Day two of Ontario’s 5000MW wind fleet hitting zero output. Great seeing clean energy Canada endorsing the refurbishment of #Pickering #nuclear but lets be clear… There’s no competition at all. #fairweatherfriends

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

1 year

Working on a PJM project that's been sitting idle in the queue for three years with no end in sight while watching projects in ERCOT connect after only 18 months in the queue

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

10 months

It never ceases to amaze me how many right-wingers I know are fully onboard with the monopoly structure for electric utilities and how many left-wingers I know are fully onboard with competitive markets. I know why, but it’s still somewhat baffling to me.

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

9 months

Another beautiful day to be working on the most complex machine ever built

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

11 months

Why are you, as a transmission line, less than 200MVA?

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

1 year

Anyone thought of using wind energy to directly power work instead of converting it to electricity first? Thinking along the lines of using the wind to turn a big stone and grind grains or somethin. Idk, could be somethin to look into

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

4 months

Lmao “yeah we introduced this massive source of financial risk and schedule uncertainty but why aren’t these projects ready to go at the drop of a hat??”

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

8 years

Since America's getting fucked tonight, so are we

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

7 months

Reconductoring is one of those topics that i think when non-utility folks learn about it their first thought is "no duh, why aren't we doing this" If only it were that simple. A few thoughts on transmission planning and utility incentives/regulation:

egg

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7 months

Advocate Twitter has convinced themselves that “reconductoring”, a decades-old common practice, is a new technology, which tells you how informed their view of utility planning is.

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

5 months

To be a great transmission planning engineer you need to be good at: - electrical engineering (power systems) - economics and market analysis - data analytics and visualization - programming/modeling And we wonder why we’re short TPEs. Starting salary should be $200k lmao.

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Electrical engineers are expected to be natural high-quality data scientists now. Good news for me and this analytics department I'm in

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

4 months

You are entering speculative projects into the queue are you not

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

6 months

“Why isn’t capitalism building all this cheap renewables?” It is? Have people considered that great things take time? Changing the largest, most complex machine ever built isn’t an overnight thing?

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

6 months

Is this person against all forms of commodity storage? Should we get rid of oil storage? Should I tell my dad to get rid of his grain bins since storage offers no value?

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

4 months

All this talk of “optimal power flow”, when will electrons learn they can’t just always take the easiest path? Electrons these days are soft, not like old days when they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

1 year

My father-in-law is lineman. He is insanely gifted. Years ago we were together at the Pacific Intertie built in the 1960’s, and I asked him what it would cost to build interregional transmission today. I will never forget his answer… “We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.”

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

4 months

Once again am seeing posts on needing to account for storage costs in LCOE. This is a misunderstanding of what the LCOE metric is and what it’s used for - which is unrelated to the ability to meet load.

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

7 months

Obviously

Alan Corey | Atlanta Real Estate Expert

@RealEstateMaxi

8 months

One of my least-liked design elements of suburban design is this inaccessible landing I see in foyers. Any creative solutions for "staging" it out there?

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

5 months

Transparency is a significant issue in the utility industry. Over-redaction of public information under the guise of security is anti-competitive. FERC needs to mandate a minimum transparency threshold. It can start by actually defining what is/is not CEII.

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

4 years

Happy one year anniversary to my best friend. Here's to many more.

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

10 months

Power systems protection will be the next big issue facing the energy transition after interconnection & permitting. Coincidentally, it is directly linked to transmission planning (as is interconnection)

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

4 years

Officially Colorado girls!

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

6 months

If your interconnection engineer dresses like this you don’t need to worry, you’re getting an IA

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

7 months

YEAH BUT DID YOU KNOW THE SUN GOES DOWN? WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN THE WIND ISNT BLOWING? RENEWABLES NEED 100% BACKUP. DID YOU THINK ABOUT THAT?!

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

7 months

Not a fan of PTCs necessarily, but it sure seems like it’s always “tax credits for clean energy cause market distortions” and never “mispricing pollution causes market distortions”

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

5 years

Choosing a mother/son dance song for my wedding is hard because half the songs I listen to are about depression and alcoholism, and the other half is about how the party don't start till I walk in DON'T STOP MAKE IT ROCK

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

11 months

Started my new position LFG

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

4 months

explaining that adding a new line does not automatically increase the transfer capacity of a system proportional to the thermal rating of the new line

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

6 months

Electricity sales pay for electric grid infrastructure. Infrastructure is a function of peak demand. Increase sales in the valley while limiting peak growth = cheaper rates. This is simple. Right? Right???

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

10 years

On the plus side this was the most exciting homecoming I've ever had...

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

11 months

Looking at a utilities OATI site for the first time that clearly hasn’t been updated since 2008

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

4 months

you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

6 years

Currently contemplating how stunted my childhood social growth was based on the fact I never had cable growing up so I could never watch spongebob. Kids would make references that it would take years before I understood. Such is a hard knock life

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

6 months

If thermals are concerned about ramping ability, maybe they should consider installing battery storage? A hedge against ramp rate limitations, if you will.

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

7 months

every utility IRP in 2024

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

6 months

And is this ‘capacity’ in the room with us?

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

4 years

Josc and I have talked about it, and due to Covid-19, I've decided to cancel my birthday tomorrow. I will be staying 23 years old. We all have a part to play, it's the socially responsible thing to do. I repeat I will be staying at 23 years old.

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

9 years

EVERYBODY IM AN UNCLE!

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

9 years

I'd like to welcome David Zachariah to the family http://t.co/wrQvsrybbU

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

2 years

I have never in my life interacted with him, online or otherwise, so I don’t know why but I’m blocked by Morgan Wallen.

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

8 months

Something that I don't think is well understood outside the industry is how much of the dev timeline for transmission projects is dedicated to the planning process and commercial discussions, not just permitting. Always comes down to the 3P's. Planning, Paying, and Permitting.

Armand Domalewski

@ArmandDoma

8 months

This project began applying for permits in 2006

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

7 months

Assuming this is how the actual lawyers view me whenever I get called in to discuss an OATT or some obscure ISO/utility process

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

4 months

Taking all of my willpower not to dump every one of my FERC Order 1920 thoughts out on twitter before being able to read the text

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

9 months

Ah yes, the Southeast where everything is just perfect (you know, the region with massive blackouts last year)?

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

3 months

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

3 months

@PenseeMagique Yeah, nuclear definitely gets the closest and has a great track record, but even NPPs can be susceptible to extreme events

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

5 years

In my dreamworld I'd get married in a rhinestone suite with rattlesnake boots, walking in to "(There's) No Gettin' Over Me" by Ronnie Milsap. As a matter of fact, lemme call Josc...

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

3 months

I know this is super late but the discourse around the movie “Interstellar” never made sense to me. It’s actually a pretty simple movie: doing great things requires time and sacrifice, but never forget that the only thing that really matters is getting home to your daughter

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

6 months

This incorrectly assumes that running the study is the limiting factor wrt to interconnection study timeline.

Bill Perkins (Guy)

@bp22

6 months

The grid interconnect study business is ripe for disruption. Can't fathom in the age of AI an interconnect study takes more than a day, never mind the months to years currently plaguing ISOs.

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

1 year

A lot of people miss this point. The amount of load growth we’re about to see is going to be wild. It’s gonna be an all hands on deck situation. Hoping load interconnection doesn’t turn into a similar situation as the generator interconnection queue…

Tim Latimer

@TimMLatimer

1 year

Electricity demand growth is going to outpace expectations so rapidly that it’s going to make all these silly tribal arguments a moot point. We need electricity, and lots of it, and fast, and clean.

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

6 years

"Some of you didn't grow up walking 10 miles to school, uphill both ways, and it really shows."

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

7 years

Apparently it's national girlfriend day so i right I'd let everyone know that I have one

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

5 years

Your grandpa drink Old Mill Red, drives around looking at fields while listening to AM radio, and loves Werther's Original hard carmels... It's me, I'm your grandpa.

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

6 months

While the point is well taken and the IRA is obviously massively influential, I just want to quick plug how well the storage industry did pre-IRA. The grid storage industry was well on its way prior to the IRA and was inevitable, now being supercharged by the IRA.

Costa Samaras

@CostaSamaras

6 months

On climate, it's important to understand that before this Administration, grid-scale batteries in the US basically didn't exist. Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, there will be sixteen Hoover Dams-worth of battery storage on the grid this year. #SOTU

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

6 years

YO I JUST GOT CASEY'S BREAKFAST PIZZA AGAIN, GOD BLESS YOU OGALLALA NEBRASKA

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

6 years

Me during finals week

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

9 years

Finally found a Coke with my name on it. http://t.co/55HKAurLex

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

7 years

@ohhschip Show em this pic of me, they'll understand then.

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

1 year

Does the complete disconnect between resource planning and interconnection studies bother anyone else or am I just a huge nerd?

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

3 months

@SavageOnTheSun @nwdiver93 Correct, but the point is the plant suffered significant damage that caused it to go offline and stop generating during the storm. People are acting like severe weather events only affect wind and solar which is decidedly not true

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

6 months

Enjoyed listening to this pod with Pat Wood on (who I greatly respect). However, I would push back on his comments wrt to the “ordering” of decarb. He argues for decarb of the grid before addressing electrification but that misses the mark. We need to be doing both in parallel

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Aaron Stoll

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

8 months

So there’s no available transmission capacity on the grid. But somehow there’s also not enough generation capacity to serve load. Do we see the issue here?

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

4 years

Since everyone is sharing their quarantine schedules, thought I'd share mine too.

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

1 year

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if the only thing you're using to prospect for interconnection are those heat maps put out by ISOs... go home. don't put that project in the queue. it's too late. you're ngmi

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

10 years

Sitting with all your friends? @Carter_Vernon_ http://t.co/R2OXo0jkd8

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

7 years

Legend has it, there are parts of Iowa that aren't just cornfields and meth labs.

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

6 months

"ERCOT doesn't need grid to grid ties, they have switchable gens!"

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

8 months

On a serious note, had about a 10 min convo with a gas station attendant on the grid and the issues that texas is facing. It was both super fun but felt a little dystopian. This is a failure of the industry. Normal people should not have to be this concerned about power

Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

8 months

A normie just asked me what texas’ plan is for this winter storm. Just showed him this.

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

1 year

Been seeing a lot of takes on this with the recent issues in ERCOT so I’ll just throw this out there: Transmission congestion and subsequent generator curtailment occur in markets outside of ERCOT, in both “connect and manage” and “connect and invest” systems.

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

4 months

This was a banger, y’all just don’t know powerflow modeling

Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

5 months

Me at work showing how to edit a powerflow case via an inch file in TARA as if it’s a super complex programming task

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

7 months

Choosing between a POI with top arbitrage value versus a POI with available interconnection capacity

Jay 

@Jayzus_

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Perfect stick or perfect rock which one you taking

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

5 months

ERCOT already has DC ties connecting it to other grids and is independent and non-FERC jurisdictional. This shouldn’t change with the expansion or addition of new DC ties. I’m not sure why some folks think it would.

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

7 months

when someone mentions holistic transmission planning or multi-value projects

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

7 months

The grid will always needs a diverse generation mix

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

4 years

In lieu of isopropyl alcohol, I will be testing the medical effectiveness of ethyl alcohol tonight. Propably in the form of a bourbon. If that doesn't work then God help us...

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

1 year

Me anytime someone mentions transmission or interconnection on twitter dot com

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

6 years

FBI agent Burt Macklin is the only law enforcement officer with the ability to crack a case of this magnitude

Josh Lazaro

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6 years

Cop: do you have any idea why i pulled you over? Me: no sir Cop: *flips through notebook* May 17th 2014, at the taco bell on route 102, ordered a water cup and filled it with baja blast. We gotcha, we finally gotcha

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

7 years

"Hurt" by Johnny Cash is an bop, don't @ me.

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

10 years

When someone hands carter the aux cord http://t.co/sGj0zJMjl6

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

6 years

Anyone wanna mess around and save the environment hmu

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

5 years

@ohhschip This a gross oversimplification. Each has its own situational use and your implication that one can be completely superior than the others is what's wrong with society today... but anyone who doesn't say wheat thins is wrong.

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

11 months

My hot take as a developer is that queue withdrawal penalties are good! Increasing risk as the queue proceeds drives unviable projects out. If you have conviction in a project then put your money where your mouth is.

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

3 years

Laughing at the lighthearted jokes about WWIII and then remembering you have another year of draft eligibility

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

5 months

brb going to buy a million copies of this print of the transmission line crossing Lake Pontchartrain

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

8 months

As always: all models are wrong, some are useful. there are several useful ways to utilize models to effectively plan power systems and if chris here thinks we should just be closing our eyes and guessing then i’m very happy he’s not a grid planner

chris keefer

@Dr_Keefer

8 months

“In Modelling We Trust” Reality be damned. For the doubters… put your faith in long duration storage. It is sure to outlast increasingly volatile polar vortices. The renewable emperor isn’t wearing any clothes.

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

8 months

The absolute funniest (and most likely) outcome of the bad faith attacks on the LPO would be for the report to find how massively successful the LPO is and how well it’s working.

Christian Fong

@christiantfong

8 months

@JohnSmillie42 Also, the LPO has already received over $4 billion in interest payments thus far, and its 3% loss rate is on par with other major banks!

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

4 months

Always a little funny to see some of the AI folks downplay the energy challenge and the issues & time it takes to build things in the real world. Just fundamentally have not figured it out.

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

9 years

Hell I could win the finals if I got away with half the shit Lebron does

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

10 months

I found God in this gumbo.

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Aaron Stoll

@Astoll15

1 year

MISO obviously knew their queue reform proposal was going to be controversial, which is why they shoved it into a 45 minute presentation in the middle of the PAC and are limiting questions when they should have had more time or even a special meeting for something like this

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