Professional energy nerd. https://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3m35tpw67kk2gWindow mounted heat really could be the biggest thing in residential decarb since EVs went mainstream. Between this and other projects @bhaboston.bsky.social is leading the way! https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/heat-pumps/boston-gradient-window-heat-pump-public-housing14 Oct 2025 13:32 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3m35tpw67kk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3lzlki5zcy22aWant to save electric ratepayers money? https://blog.greenenergyconsumers.org/blog/utility-securitization?utm_campaign=15917608-Advocacy%20FY26&utm_content=348792838&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-104542424 Sep 2025 13:34 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzlki5zcy22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3lyzx2yk52c24While the third-party supplier industry claims its issues are limited to small "bad apples", the DPU is accusing one of the largest suppliers in the Commonwealth of multiple different kinds of fraud. #energy #masspoli https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/17/science/dpu-third-party-energy-cleanchoice/17 Sep 2025 13:31 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyzx2yk52c24https://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3lxwyvdaluc2rTrump really loves smashing the “make electricity more expensive” button on his desk. I can’t say I am a fan. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/offshore-wind/trump-revolution-halt-disaster-new-england-grid03 Sep 2025 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxwyvdaluc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3lxu7me2i7c2dhttps://www.canarymedia.com/articles/fossil-fuels/texas-gas-plant-loans-projects-approved02 Sep 2025 13:23 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxu7me2i7c2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3lxadfsdlak2pGoing after aggregation because sometimes utility basic service is cheaper is like saying climate change isn't real because sometime it snows. It's the long-term average that counts. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/25/metro/nh-electricity-rates-alternate-savings/25 Aug 2025 15:38 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxadfsdlak2phttps://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3lw7dljojl22dHaving monopoly utilities build massive pieces of energy infrastructure is often expensive and slow. Maybe small low-to-no-install options like this (and solar and window-mounted heat pumps) can be a better option. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/batteries/coned-nyc-ac-pilot-grid-impact12 Aug 2025 12:43 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw7dljojl22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3lvqew22tbs2yMA has many great energy programs, and then there's the APS. [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Aug 2025 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvqew22tbs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3lvq7bttyqk2iYou 👏can 👏 build 👏homes 👏 with 👏 out 👏 gas. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/electrification/massachusetts-gas-ban-housing-impact06 Aug 2025 12:16 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvq7bttyqk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3lvo7rrebs22aThe EPA Administrator seems to be entirely unaware that its high per unit distribution costs, not high generation costs, which are largely responsible for New England’s high energy prices. Building a pipeline to fix our energy issues would be like going for a run to fix a bad knee. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/05/opinion/constitution-pipeline-new-england-energy-costs/05 Aug 2025 17:20 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvo7rrebs22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3lvdr3dpfzk27https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/01/business/heat-pumps-department-of-public-utilities-climate-mass-save-eversource-national-grip/01 Aug 2025 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvdr3dpfzk27https://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3lus5ga5mfs2rGood climate policy doesn't have to be expensive. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/heat-pumps/massachusetts-winter-electricity-discount25 Jul 2025 13:23 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3lus5ga5mfs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3luiuhkaqk22rOpinion pieces like this never seem to answer the simple question, what does nuclear get you that batteries, wind, and solar can't get you faster and cheaper? https://www.utilitydive.com/news/nuclear-energy-renaissance-smr-good-energy/753471/21 Jul 2025 20:49 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3luiuhkaqk22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3ltwpz6bks22uThe more I hear about window mounted heat pumps the more they seem like solar. Mass produced cheap to install systems that could outcompete other options 9 times out of 10. This great report from ACEEE only adds to that: https://www.aceee.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/b2506.pdf14 Jul 2025 15:41 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltwpz6bks22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3ltf7ezdka226👀👀👀👀 I wonder if it's low profile could help get more onshore wind in Mass. https://www.utilitydive.com/news/airloom-energy-wind-power-energy-wyoming-bill-gates/752229/07 Jul 2025 16:28 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltf7ezdka226https://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3lslr24lb2s2fHas anyone run the numbers on if the economic benefits of data centers outweigh the economic impact of higher electric rates caused by increased demand? I find it hard to imagine that math is going to math in our favor. #energy https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/06/science/an-economic-opportunity-or-an-energy-crisis-waiting-data-centers-are-coming-massachusetts/?p1=StaffPage27 Jun 2025 13:35 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3lslr24lb2s2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3lsjdu6hop224“If we cannot get a ban, we would love if there is legislation that protects people from the worst abuses of the system,” Katan said in an interview. “That would still be a massive win for the people of the commonwealth.” https://commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/healeys-energy-affordability-bill-gets-support-tough-questions-on-beacon-hill/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=CORRECTED%3A%20Healey%20s%20energy%20affordability%20bill%20gets%20support%2C%20tough%20questions%20on%20Beacon%20Hill&utm_campaign=DL%2006-26-2526 Jun 2025 14:34 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsjdu6hop224https://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3lqftrce2d22lThird-party suppliers have long used MA’s broken retail electricity market to take advantage of customers. Now with our anti-shopping guide you can tell the companies you shouldn't buy electricity from apart from the companies you really shouldn’t buy electricity from. https://blog.greenenergyconsumers.org/blog/which-third-party-electric-suppliers-overcharged-massachusetts-consumers-the-most?hs_preview=nukxFEAI-19083496568930 May 2025 18:17 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqftrce2d22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3lqamrjmu522aUnrealistic deadlines to increase output form heavy industry, is it fair to call this Admin's industrial/energy policy Stalinism With Capitalist Characteristics? https://www.utilitydive.com/news/trump-aims-for-400-gw-of-nuclear-by-2050-10-large-reactors-under-construct/749107/28 May 2025 16:29 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqamrjmu522ahttps://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3lnuwyuo7hk2aThis is a great story that highlights why we need legislation to protect solar customers, like S.2264. https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-04-28/solar-panel-company-accused-of-shady-business-in-massachusetts28 Apr 2025 14:10 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnuwyuo7hk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3lnl3smpzt225#Enron is back in Texas! When they are going to reopen in Mass? I am tired of these third-party electric suppliers quietly going after low-income folks. I want to see these companies commit spectacular, statewide blackout causing, crimes again and I think Enron can get us there. http://www.energychoicematters.com/stories/20250423c.html24 Apr 2025 16:09 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnl3smpzt225https://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3lnggdlopo223Eversource, buddy, it is 2025, kindly do not call the EMT (a big piece of LNG infrastructure) an emission reduction tool in your MA climate compliance report.22 Apr 2025 19:34 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnggdlopo223https://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3lmcowrfmnc2gMA Gas utilties: Our demand is going up so we must build more pipelines. Also MA gas utilties: Our demand will go down and therefore we need state support. They are really blinking with both eyes in some of their filings with the DPU.08 Apr 2025 14:32 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmcowrfmnc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3lmclp3mmgs2yOne day these predatory companies will be thrown out of Mass and I can stop writing about them. Until then here is another blog outlining how they are bad. [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Apr 2025 13:34 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmclp3mmgs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3llz3h62td22x“With a similar climate to Québec, one could reasonably expect the costs of electrifying the winter peak in Massachusetts” is an actual sentence in a report National Grid filed. Utterly disconnected from reality.04 Apr 2025 18:49 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3llz3h62td22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3llz224iu5c2uDon't make me tap the sign: "Elaborate calculations which are at war with realities are of no avail." - Lindheimer v. Illinois Bell Tel. Co., 193404 Apr 2025 18:24 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3llz224iu5c2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3llw4et4ki22vNational Grid argued in their climate plan that support for renewable natural gas (RNG) will make it more practical because support for wind and solar worked out. This is equivalent to saying, "I worked hard to run a 5 minute mile, therefore if I work hard again I can swim to the moon.”03 Apr 2025 14:28 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3llw4et4ki22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/carriekatan.bsky.social/post/3llepnzdirc2zMass Fiscal says the cost of battery storage procurement needs to be shared between utilties, MLPs, and co-ops...the thing there are no electric co-ops in the Massachusetts. #mapoli #energy https://commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/minimizing-the-cost-of-the-states-huge-energy-storage-procurement/27 Mar 2025 16:25 +0000at://did:plc:uzpmveynfjbplqcf4q7cs72d/app.bsky.feed.post/3llepnzdirc2z