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Why do you have to talk about nuclear enthusiasts as “tech bros” and use words like “virile”? What does this add to the conversation? I know plenty of passionate, enthusiastic, female nuclear power advocates, and they have an important element to add to the conversation. I like your newsletter, but throwing weirdly gendered shade on other clean power advocates doesn’t seem helpful.

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I dont disagree that there are female nuclear power advocates, but the ratio is pretty stark. Regardless, there's some missing context here, which is that for years dr volts was hounded by overeager, mostly male nuclear obsessives on twitter. In general, im for letting David be David

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Ok, I'm sorry for his experience. I guess I hang out with a more civil corner of the pro nuke space!

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I saw a google ad for Solar installs from my power company, Dominion Power (Virginia) to install solar, so I called up the number. In 5 minutes, the rep said, oh you're in Prince William Country - that's the only County in the state we don't work in.

When a county is so bureaucratically backwards the STATE POWER COMPANY won't do business in your area....that is almost medal worthy in it's stupidity.

I last looked into solar in mid 2016 and even than only got one company to call me back. They said up front they were adding in 25% markup due to my county shenanigans. Sigh

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This is classic Dominion and classic PWC

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Can't you speed it up a bit like China is doing and install some solar Farms?

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I'm a satisfied California Sunrun customer. I wanted Sunrun to be responsible for the system installation, performance & maintenance, not me. My 10 panel system was installed in 2016, when regulations only allowed 10% additional capacity above a customers' existing annual load. Fast forward to 2024, when I now have the added loads of a BEV & a heat pump. I'll be interested to see how much these new loads exceed my existing solar system capacity. My 20 year Sunrun contract doesn't allow for any system expansion, but it's been reported that Enphase has an independent “secondary” system scenario that would not void the existing NEM benefits of my Sunrun system.

My California Community Choice Aggregator power supplier, Sonoma Clean Power, now has a program administered by EV Energy that paid me $100 to enroll, and compensates me for limiting my EV charging to off-peak hours, from 12 am to 3 pm. Daytime charging maximizes my solar utilization. This seems to be a new variation on the VPP concept. I'm hoping that they'll include V2G, when the PUC & utility allow it.

ev.energy is an app that helps EV owners charge their vehicles more efficiently:

Solar feature: Automatically charges your EV when your solar panels are generating electricity. The app uses your home address, local weather, and information about your solar panels to predict how much electricity your home will generate.

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I would love to hear what folks would suggest to offer low cost easy to use EV charging for apartment households. My thoughts here

https://medium.com/areas-producers/ev-charging-for-low-and-middle-income-apartment-households-aa75fd586306?sk=121f10bd65ffc4a6fe6b184100fbdbc4

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