More from @billmckibben.bsky.social's essential newsletter: Any new power plant that wants onto the US transmission grid has to join an interconnection queue. Some 2,061 GW of proposed generation and storage are sitting in those queues. Minnesota used existing infrastructure to jump the line.
Minnesota just plugged a 710-megawatt solar farm into a coal plant that once burned 30,000 tons a day, the two sharing wires until the last boiler dies in 2030 — and one retired coal unit will keep sp...Retirement does not mean the old hardware stops working entirely, either. One of the retiring units is being converted into a synchronous condenser, a hugewww.autonocion.com