In spring 2022, after having been in one too many discussions about batteries, energy storage, and renewable share in energy grids, I decided to write a Twitter 🧵 on the subject, trying to collect what I have learned in the last decade. I think it's h...

@sbi I'm planning to shape my life around understanding, installing, and maintaining renewable power.

The true benefit of renewables is not in the large scale, but in the small scale.

Renewables can massively improve community energy resilience.

Renewable energy systems can be deployed at any scale, personal, household, community, state, and improve energy resilience.

@sbi The greatest power of renewable energy is the ability to bring energy use and production into the realm of the personal, comprehensible, and controllable.

Who gives a shit how much energy you consume when it all comes from the grid and always costs the same?

But if you've got household solar and a battery system, you can track your own energy production and consumption, and plan your energy usage around efficiency.

@sbi Find that you're over-producing by the afternoon? Plan break baking around peak sun hours so that excess energy isn't wasted.

Energy management can be a fun exercise in direct household resource management, rather than an abstract headache of budgeting.

@katanova @sbi

This is a sustainable approach towards energy use that originally comes from rural environments.

There is a given maximum amount of energy that can be sustainably harvested from a given area of land, without damaging the biological infrastructure that generates that energy.

Most of the rural patterns of working are based on the life-cycles of the organisms that are part of that infrastructure.

You're just returning to our original way of doing things.