Matthew Fabrizio
Kulpsville, Pennsylvania, United States
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A strategic operations leader with a strong foundation in quality systems and a passion…
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Matthew Fabrizio reposted thisMatthew Fabrizio reposted thisOne day, a battery record. The next, a solar record. Record 23.195 GW peak solar output Fri Jul 10 on the California ISO grid. 100th of 101 days straight and 166th of 191 (87%) in 2026 with WindWaterSolar supply > 100% of demand. Gas down 62% in '26 v '23 Solar, wind, and batteries pushing gas off the grid, which is now the most stable and reliable in the U.S.
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Matthew Fabrizio reposted thisMatthew Fabrizio reposted thisSolar’s deployment speed exploded by over 34 times between the 1st and 2nd terawatt milestones, and still accelerating. Average annual deployment velocity: >1st 1,000GW (68 years): ~14.7GW /year >2nd 1,000GW (2 years): 500GW /year >3rd 1,000GW (1.2 years): ~833.3GW /year
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Matthew Fabrizio shared thisERCOT Isn't there plenty of nameplate capacity for data centers as #Solar and #Batteries continue to grow? #ERCOT #EnergyStorage #BatteryStorage #RenewableEnergy #SolarEnergy #GridModernization #EnergyTransition #CleanEnergy #PowerGrid
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Matthew Fabrizio shared thisMark Jacobson Didn't realize California ISO has ~30GW of Natural Gas ! Given the lead time of new gas generation, can some of the CA infrastructure be relocated to other grids or data centers in the US? Then could you repurpose those existing grid connections???
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Matthew Fabrizio shared thisJennifer Granholm If we are at ~40% grid utilization annually today, where can we be in 2030 with your playbook? Great discussion on Energy Empire this week ! Two key takeaways in my words: 1. "Reward OPEX that reduces CAPEX": sweat the assets we already have 2. "Everyone gets a battery": focus more on distribution, shift the peakMatthew Fabrizio shared thisJennifer Granholm has run the US Department of Energy and the State of Michigan. On Energy Empire this week, she broke down the playbook — and one finding stood out: when researchers tested how people respond to data center deals, tax breaks and community funds drew only 20% support. A battery in the garage and solar on the roof drew 65%. Increase in their operating costs to do this? 0.1% That's already playing out in Virginia. Sunrun, Tesla, and Renew Home just unveiled a 16 GW virtual power plant aimed at hyperscalers, with 300+ MW live in Data Center Alley. Lightshift Energy is deploying five 5 MW batteries across Virginia public utilities for an estimated $100M in savings. Granholm's full playbook has 5 moves — and the one about utility commissions is the one most governors are getting backwards. 🎧 Listen to the full breakdown by clicking the link in the comments
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Matthew Fabrizio shared thisPaul Gerke Mike Casey great summary of your first story from Heatmap News: https://lnkd.in/eJdMUEEh Novel carbon removal (like direct carbon capture) increased from 1.4 million tons in 2023 to 2 million tons in 2025, with biochar responsible for most of that...carbon removal would have to grow to 70 million by 2030 and 360 million by 2035 for the world to achieve net zero. DIRECT AIR CAPTURE removed just 1500 tons in all of 2025. Not very #pragmaticMatthew Fabrizio shared thisPaul Gerke and I talked and laughed our way through another episode of This Week in Cleantech. Big listener shout-outs to two founders: Daniel Dus of Clean Industry Resources and Scott Wharton of Tandem PV. We covered: - The lousy state of carbon capture - National government attacks on clean energy continuing… through the Farm Bill! - Why half of planned data centers won’t get built - Why state attorneys general are suing Trump over $1B wind buyouts And we had Ben Storrow of E&E News come on to talk about why “blue” state governors in New England are now considering bowing to Trump by building pipelines… but with no clear upside. Cleantecher of the Week is my buddy Kevin Doffing, who’s driving results through veterans lobbying for clean energy. He is using 50 cal machine gun bullets as lobbying swag! https://lnkd.in/gSG28BpwWhy are some Democrat governors backing Trump's gas pipelines? – This Week in CleantechWhy are some Democrat governors backing Trump's gas pipelines? – This Week in Cleantech
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Matthew Fabrizio shared thisWe need Plausibility, Pragmatism and Prudence in the climate discussion. Michael Liebreich and Roger Pielke Jr. exemplify this stable middle ground. We may achieve more by talking less about climate extremes and more about clean, affordable, and abundant energy. Energy abundance can support economic growth, improve quality of life, strengthen resilience, and help address climate challenges at the same time. The focus should be on directing resources toward solutions that have the greatest impact rather than spreading them across low-value efforts to counter implausible events. https://lnkd.in/eDKWXFVn What stood out to me in the episode: • Climate scenarios matter, but plausibility matters too. Some high-end emissions pathways assume CO₂ concentrations near 1,100 ppm by 2100 up from 430 today and 280 before the industrial revolution. This requires a 7–9x increase in global coal consumption and 40,000 new coal plants along with population growth to ~14 billion people. These assumptions are increasingly viewed as unlikely and implausible. • Communicating climate risks accurately and avoiding unsupported worst-case claims is essential for maintaining public trust and driving effective action. On the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current (AMOC), the scientific consensus points toward a significant slowdown this century, not an imminent shutdown. Exaggerating the timeline here could demotivate action and cause loss of faith in the science. • Hurricane data shows a higher proportion of intense storms since 1970, but much of that shift is linked to fewer overall storms rather than a large increase in the number of major storms. For detecting climate trends, long-term temperature and precipitation records often provide stronger statistical signals than the relatively small global sample of yearly tropical cyclones. #EnergyTransition #Sustainability #EnergySystems #DataDriven #ClimatePolicy #CleanEnergy #FutureOfEnergyRCP8.5 Is Dead, What Comes Next? Ep260: Roger Pielke, Jr.RCP8.5 Is Dead, What Comes Next? Ep260: Roger Pielke, Jr.
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Matthew Fabrizio reposted thisMatthew Fabrizio reposted thisNot all sunny places are created equal. While tropical regions are often associated with warm weather, the sunniest places on Earth are actually found in some of the world's major deserts. Parts of the Sahara, the Arabian Peninsula, the Atacama Desert in Chile and Namibia's desert regions receive more than 4,000 hours of sunshine per year, making them among the brightest places on the planet. In contrast, areas near the poles and regions with frequent cloud cover, such as northern Europe, Alaska, Canada and parts of Siberia, receive fewer than 1,200 hours of sunshine annually. The map highlights how factors such as latitude, atmospheric circulation and local climate patterns shape the global distribution of sunshine, creating vast differences in the amount of sunlight people experience around the world. Did you know? Yuma, Arizona, is often cited as the sunniest city on Earth, enjoying sunshine during around 90% of its daylight hours.
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Matthew Fabrizio shared thisGSD #USAMatthew Fabrizio shared thisWORLD'S 10 LARGEST BESS PROJECTS (2026) The scale of energy storage being built today would have seemed impossible just a few years ago. The largest announced project on the list, Australia-Asia Power Link, is planned at 42 GWh of battery storage capacity. To put that into perspective: ⚡ 42 GWh = 42,000 MWh = 42 million kWh That's enough stored energy to power roughly 1.4 million homes for a day, depending on consumption patterns. Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are rapidly becoming the backbone of modern power grids, helping countries: ✅ Integrate more solar and wind energy ✅ Improve grid stability ✅ Reduce renewable energy curtailment ✅ Increase energy security ✅ Enable 24/7 clean electricity From Australia and the UAE to India, Chile, and the United States, the race to build large-scale energy storage is well underway. The future of energy isn't just generation it's storage. What size BESS project do you think we'll see first: 50 GWh or 100 GWh? #BESS #BatteryEnergyStorage #EnergyStorage #RenewableEnergy #GridStability #PowerSystems #ElectricalEngineering #BatteryTechnology #CleanEnergy #EnergyTransition #UtilityScaleStorage #SolarEnergy #WindEnergy #PowerGrid #CATL #BYD #TeslaEnergy #Hithium #Sungrow #EnergyIndustry
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Matthew Fabrizio liked thisMatthew Fabrizio liked thisOne day, a battery record. The next, a solar record. Record 23.195 GW peak solar output Fri Jul 10 on the California ISO grid. 100th of 101 days straight and 166th of 191 (87%) in 2026 with WindWaterSolar supply > 100% of demand. Gas down 62% in '26 v '23 Solar, wind, and batteries pushing gas off the grid, which is now the most stable and reliable in the U.S.
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Matthew Fabrizio liked thisMatthew Fabrizio liked thisSolar’s deployment speed exploded by over 34 times between the 1st and 2nd terawatt milestones, and still accelerating. Average annual deployment velocity: >1st 1,000GW (68 years): ~14.7GW /year >2nd 1,000GW (2 years): 500GW /year >3rd 1,000GW (1.2 years): ~833.3GW /year
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Matthew Fabrizio liked thisLet me repeat Batteries can now meet 75.3% of average grid demand and 44.4% of the year's highest grid demand for 4 hours at a cost less than 1% the price of electricity in the world's 4th-largest economy. So, whoever is still standing claiming fossil fuels are needed, sit back down.Matthew Fabrizio liked thisSpread the word - another record on the 99th of 100 days in CA with >100% clean, renewable energy. New battery peak discharge record of 12.994 GW on the 27th straight, 99th of 100, and 160th of 185 (87%) days in '26 with WindWaterSolar meeting > 100% of demand, for an avg of 5.4 h/day. CAISO now has 17.023 GW of batteries, 23.168 GW of solar, 12.332 GW of wind, 1.41 GW of geothermal, 1.14 GW of small hydro, plus large hydro. https://lnkd.in/gkeJrX-f Avg demand in '26 is 22.6 GW, so batteries can meet 75.3% of average demand for 4 h. Peak demand is 38.3 GW, so batteries can meet 44.4% of peak demand for 4 h. These batteries cost <1% of grid electricity price. No more excuses for using fossil fuels. Gas is down 62% in '26 v '23. WWS has met 59% of all demand in '26 PDF of this graph https://lnkd.in/gJrZnAf3
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Matthew Fabrizio liked thisMatthew Fabrizio liked thisHappy Independence and Energy Independence Day. Let's celebrate something really good in the United States of America. WindWaterSolar renewables and storage are proving themselves capable of providing reliable power. WWS has met more than 100% of demand for 93 of the last 94 days and 159 of 184 days (86.4%) in '26 for an average of 5.4 hours per day on the CAISO grid. The California ISO grid has the lowest average U.S. wholesale prices thus the most stable grid - and with hardly any gas. Gas is down 62% in '26 v '23 Gas has provided <6% of demand for the past 8 straight days and only 13.5% of demand in all of 2026. WWS has provided 59% of all electricity in '26. Solar is the #1 source of electricity (30.5% of demand) Wind is #2 (14.1% of demand) Batteries are up 337% vs '23 and have shifted 8.2% of all electricity supply to night, reducing the need for gas.
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Matthew Fabrizio liked thisMatthew Fabrizio liked thisA better future is possible now. Solar power beat every prediction going. We need to back scaling up existing solutions that we already have, not betting on future ones. I get so frustrated when talk is about future technologies when we have *so* many solutions already there. As much as I like to believe that there is a valid role for CCS and we need to invest in it, that doesn't mean it should be banked on as a get out of jail free card when solar is *right there*. The projections for solar have always been a source of entertainment, with the IEA massively underestimating the deployment of it every year. ProPublica have laid out the numbers, and it's pretty stark. Back in 2008, the IEA said we'd need to be burying 1.6 billion tons of CO2 a year by 2025. Between 1996 and 2026, we have stored... 0.38 billion tons ton. So I'm sure all those fossil fuel companies will start storing their emissions, any day now... Meanwhile, I'm all in on SolarPunk! A better future is possible now - but only if we back what's already working: solar, wind, batteries, heat pumps, public transport. Carbon capture might have a role for a handful of genuinely hard-to-abate industries. It is not a substitute for scaling what already works. The boring stuff that's already bending the curve. The best advice remains: Stop burning stuff. Electrify Everything. Come tell us at your local People Planet Pint! We love a good "yes, but what do we actually do" conversation over a pint.
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