Network Strategy @Cloudflare. Former Deputy CTO at Obama for America. I like to analyze data. #Internet #energy Proud Philly. mikeconlow@tech policy.social
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25 Nov 2024
Tired: revoking licenses because networks aren’t pro-trump.
Wired: revoking licenses if they put an NFL game on their “ ” plan streaming instead of broadcast
24 Nov 2024
Broadcast licenses are not sacred cows.
These media companies are required by law to operate in the public interest. If they don’t, they are going to be held accountable, as the Communications Act requires.
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1 May 2024
The California grid is using historically little natural gas during the day and evening. That's great 🥳. But there are other parts of this story worth watching too.
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30 Apr 2024
In 2024, natural gas generation on an average April day in California hit a 7-year low.
This is a significant trend reversal from what we saw from 2021 to 2023 in CAISO.
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1 May 2024
So the question: as demand rises, if there's already limited transmission capacity and curtailment, what fuel is going to provide more power? Last year, in the middle of the day, it was gas.
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1 May 2024
2 takeaways for me: solar batteries are setting records meeting evening peak demand, and:
it's possible that gas is used to meet midday demand through May and June due to transmission constraints
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5 Apr 2024
If the path of totality were a state, its 11.9M locations would be 8% unserved and underserved by #broadband. It would be the 19th best connected state in the country
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5 Apr 2024
There are 1,481 McDonalds in the path of totality during the April 8 eclipse.
5 Apr 2024
There are 19 million Americans that heat with natural gas (7.5 million homes) in the path of totality during the April 8 eclipse.
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4 Apr 2024
Here's my #netneutrality tl;dr: The #Internet is critical (duh). There should be some common sense rules. </end>
4 Apr 2024
My colleague @mdaneman did a word count thingamajig and it is over 280,000 words. Love this for us.
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4 Apr 2024
There's been an active debate on "network slicing" as part of #netneutrality . It appears the @FCC is encouraging this innovation but putting everyone on notice that it can't be used to evade Open Internet rules. #compromise wins the day
2 Apr 2024
The FCC must reconsider its approach here and determine whether #netneutrality regulations are necessary. There is no market case for its measures and they could foreclose on an innovative option that can save lives by prioritizing emergency services, like network slicing can. In this blog, I argue the FCC should slice its proposed broadband regulations, not our #5G networks.
digitalprogress.tech/joel-on…
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4 Apr 2024
According to my extensive research (one search), this is the first time the @FCC has used the term "chicanery" in an official document. #netneutrality
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2 Apr 2024
It's been really interesting to watch the @California_ISO power grid. They're having to curtail a ton of solar due to transmission congestion. Wrote up some thoughts (so far) of what I've noticed: mikeconlow.substack.com/p/so…
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2 Apr 2024
Gas isn't meeting [all] the demand where solar was curtailed. So even though the grid is a net exporter, they are likely using imports where solar can't reach due to transmission congestion
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2 Apr 2024
Last year in May, gas did wind up serving a lot more load. Will be interesting if that happens again, or if something is different this year.
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16 Sep 2023
No way! The #broadband funding will go 2:1 to GOP over Dems. If @SenTedCruz doesn’t like it he can give back the $3 billion. mikeconlow.substack.com/p/th…
15 Sep 2023
Kudos to @SenTedCruz & @SenateCommerce for this in-depth review and report of @NTIAgov's BEAD funding and structure so far. Every Federal broadband dollar must go through deepest scrutiny. This report (and future work) is incredibly valuable to minimize duplication and waste.
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26 Jun 2023
Congrats and thank you to @FCC and @NTIAgov staff that have gotten #broadband funding this far (with lots more to do). It looks fair to me. Here it is in spreadsheet form: docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
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