Reading List 1/29 - The Grid Bottleneck
Why your electricity bill keeps going up
Source Code: [LBNL Queued Up Report 2025]
The Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s raw data on the “Interconnection Queue.” It shows 2,000+ GW of solar/wind projects sitting in line, waiting for permission to connect to the grid.
The Signal: “Transmission Impossible”
The problem of climate change isn’t generation (solar is cheap); it’s transmission (zoning laws and NIMBYism are blocking the wires).
Meanwhile, as as America struggles to add new power to the grid, tens of billions in investments is being thrown around to build massive new data centers, straining existing power resources.
The Tool: [ElectricityMap.org]
Real-time visualization of the carbon intensity of your local grid. See exactly when your electricity is coal vs. wind.