Utility regulation in the US is broken.
Energy bills are up with no signs of coming down.
It's not a technology problem -- It is a competition and regulation problem. We are working to fix it.
Excited to have Jamie Van Nostrand on the team to help!
Thefutureofheat.com/press-release
Can you ask about hybrid heat pumps with bottled fuels (propane)?
SuitSupply is good quality, good price, all around just good. Great is too expensive.
Now in Japanese please.
All good. Happy to know for the future. I also learned my lesson not to use squarespace for hosting openings, it takes weeks to remove a link!
Hi @edcarley.bsky.social I appreciate you doing this but could you please take down the listing for the job at The Future of Heat Initiative it is not an active role and we’ve had many applicants come in through your posting. (Good to know for future!)
He “fired” two FTC commissioners…
This is common developer playbook. If they need it for viability they should prove it, taking their word for it is foolish (but unfortunately commonplace)
I wonder if they had takers if the space was free? (Of course they would). It was the price of getting to do the development. Lowering the price (downsizing the space/tax credits) should require all engaged parties to open their books to prove it’s for viability not added profit.
"Private equity is rolling up small HVAC companies under big umbrella organizations. From the outside, it still looks like you're getting [heat pump' quotes from three different companies — but they might all be owned by the same firm."
Important piece --> www.heatpumped.org/p/plunder-ho...
Yup, true everywhere. No penalty for vacancy, silly. Vacancy fees help.
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For Mayors, yes. But Mayors aren’t remotely comparable to Legislatures. The former must be an effective operator regardless of politics, the latter not nearly in the same way.
Snip from Future of Heat Initiative website that says "Want to Work With Us?" and indicates three job postings: Energy Policy Research Associate, Labor Research & Policy Lead, and 2025 Summer Intern
The Future of Heat Initiative is hiring for two roles.
Please share with your networks -- or apply.
1. Labor Research & Policy Lead
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2. Energy Policy Research Associate (junior or senior)
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More details here:
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It does require more than tweeting tho.
If you want to come work on solving the problem(s) we’re always hiring.
We won’t hit any goals… affordability, or climate, so long business as usual is deemed acceptable (and highly profitable).
Why don’t you list me all the neighborhoods where 20% heat pump penetration would require new substations. There are few for sure! But we aren’t at 20%, we’re maybe at 2%.
It’s also just bad journalism.
I hope they reform mass save too. That’s not something that happens in a GSEP proceeding though.
Now say something nice!
The program is meant to address the riskiest pipes. The LDCs can do any work they want and seek recovery through a formal rate case. These might seem like minor details but it’s nearly $1b a year, locked in for 60 more. This is what regulation should look like.
A rate case is a legal proceeding.
Ah so your frustration with lack of cost containment for MassSave means you don’t support cost containment efforts anywhere? Come on Xiao, you don’t have to be the grinch every day.
Big climate news from Massachusetts: The state just overhauled a program that gives gas utilities extra financial incentive to repair/replace leaky natural gas pipelines
Since it's inception, the program has cost $6.2B and now accounts for 8-11% of monthly utility bills
www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities just issued a decision about its program for replacing leak prone pipes in the state's gas distribution system. It is a big decision. Historic even.
Check back tomorrow for some explication and commentary.
eeaonline.eea.state.ma.us/dpu/fileroom...
@samcalisch.bsky.social
Sure, but then scrap the overly burdensome permitting, the shady sales guys, and the insane tariffs and it blows the doors off piped methane.
Your inclusion of the question from Oren, and the answer to it, is so good for explaining this spat.
Abundance is great so long as it’s not put forward as THE agenda, but part of a broader effort.
@elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social this is great!
