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Looking into California grid net exports for its relationship to solar curtailment
Last time, I looked into the common spring day cases in California where incredible solar generation is curtailed in the middle of the day and…
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Mike Conlow
Broadband in the path of totality
We all have eclipse on the brain, so I thought it’d be fun to look at some eclipse broadband stats. In the path of totality, 8% of locations are either…
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Solar curtailment in California is setting new records.
In the spring in California, high solar generation and low demand (not much air conditioning ) happen at the same time, almost every day in the middle…
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February 2024

Using a project-building algorithm to estimate areas that are likely to get fiber BEAD applications
For months, myself and others have made projections about how far the broadband money could go if it were allocated relatively efficiently across all…
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Mike Conlow

January 2024

December 2023

Top 10 novel and thoughtful concepts in the newly-approved Louisiana BEAD plan
Last week, Louisiana became the first state to have their BEAD plan fully approved by the NTIA. NTIA Administrator Alan Davidson heaped praise on the…
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November 2023

October 2023

Final Enhanced ACAM numbers are in: 683,000 locations off the board for BEAD
Small rural ISPs had until the end of September to tell the FCC whether they wanted to participate in the Enhanced ACAM program. As a reminder, the…
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September 2023

August 2023

Update: The FCC's Enhanced ACAM offer could take up to 1.3 million locations off the board for BEAD
Last week the FCC published its first “illustrative run” of what the offers might be to ISPs who elect extended subsidies in exchange for agreeing to…
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