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Today is a big day in the history of electricity & electrification!

Two nationally incredible and one personally thrilling things happened #thisdayinhistory

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On Sept 4, 1882, Thomas Edison turned on Pearl Street Station in the Manhattan financial district, the first central generation station distributing electricity commercially in the United States.

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By 1882 Edison had already founded Menlo Park, and invented, among other things, the phonograph. He also improved on the automatic telegraph from knowledge gained from a 1973 trip to England.

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@NREL just dropped a new draft of its missing grid modernization study.
- Seams returns >2 years after Trump appointees squelched it
- 2 months after @INVW exposed their meddling
- And 1 month after @HouseScience told @SecBrouillette to #FreeSeams.
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theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
The #FreeSeams study projected that building a national power grid would cut costs + carbon by killing off coal and boosting wind & solar. The new @NREL Seams ordered by @Energy Dept politicos adds scenarios that "dilute" those findings. 2/7
nrel.gov/analysis/seams…
@NREL Seams' new DOE-approved scenarios assume:
- higher costs for power line construction
- lower fossil fuel prices, or
- limited retirement of coal generating stations

Each of those factors make long-distance power transmission look less cost-effective. 3/7
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With the #macrogrid the situation we are currently experiencing in the west would be a nonevent. #FreeSeams
This gif shows how the interconnections can help each other get through peak load conditions. We have the technology. We can do this.
I see you out there @GruchallaKenny! Take a bow for your amazing visualizations.
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