Madalsa

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I study carbon constrained electricity and transportation systems at Stanford University. I also enjoy books, lifting, clothes, cats, and music.
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Show threadMadalsaMay 5, 2023
Super excited to see SMUD's VPP!
https://www.energy-storage.news/swell-energy-to-manage-sacramento-utility-smuds-virtual-power-plant/
Swell Energy to manage Sacramento utility SMUD's virtual power plant

Virtual power plant/VPP specialist Swell Energy will aggregate home energy systems for Sacramento Municipal Utility District's new programme.

Energy Storage News
MadalsaMay 5, 2023

- Adding storage to solar is closest to a win-win solution for residential DER
- Two part retail rates with a time-of-use volumetric (per kWh) and fixed component (per customer/ per KW) preserves most bill savings of NEM tiered block rates
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RT @JohnSmillie42
How do people think net metering is supposed to work in conditions like this?

Even NRDC was all in on reforming CA net metering.

If you want more subsidized rooftop solar, …
https://twitter.com/JohnSmillie42/status/1654145395289669633

John Smillie on Twitter

“How do people think net metering is supposed to work in conditions like this? Even NRDC was all in on reforming CA net metering. If you want more subsidized rooftop solar, you're going to have to come at it another way.”

Twitter
Show threadMadalsaMay 5, 2023
- Reducing the sell rate to avoided costs or even 30% of retail rate (here, two part TOU + fixed rate with storage) reduces net bill to 18%-35% of the original bill (without any DER)
- Customers/aggregators send electricity back when the grid most needs it given right TOU price
MadalsaMay 4, 2023
RT @simonw
Here's the full leaked document, absolutely worth reading it all https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither
Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"

Leaked Internal Google Document Claims Open Source AI Will Outcompete Google and OpenAI

SemiAnalysis
MadalsaMay 4, 2023
love freely roaming, breed-less indian dogs, living the doggiest of dog lives and providing the joys of petting, hanging, and fun without a strict, anthropomorphized definition of "pet ownership". all are great, some are scary, but all are chill
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RT @aeonmag
Dogs on India’s streets can be freer and happier than many pets. Why are they being persecuted and culled? @kritcrit @SniffThePastDog https://bit.ly/3NBq18a
https://twitter.com/aeonmag/status/1654221899981807617
Dogs on India’s streets can be freer and happier than many pets | Aeon Essays

These canines have independent, peaceful, happy lives without a pet’s constraints. Why are they being persecuted and culled?

Aeon
MadalsaMay 3, 2023
Takes almost 30 million to make a mile of interstate; 1-3 million for a mile of separated bike path; BART extension to San Jose $1 billion a mile. Maybe it’s obvious to people but that’s astounding costs to build pretty basic infrastructure.
Show threadMadalsaMay 3, 2023
(Interstate graph ends at 1990 so idk what it is in 2023?)
MadalsaMay 3, 2023
trans rights now gn
MadalsaMay 3, 2023
RT @nkulw
We need to preserve America’s strategic reserve of graduate students who post interesting passages of what they’re reading to Twitter
MadalsaMay 3, 2023
need men to explain me the diachronic tradeoff between shawty and baddie