Reposted by Paul DVAndrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 02/09/2025Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out. Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.sites.google.comDOEresponseSiteOn July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding. In response, over 85 scientists have come together to write a comprehensive review, which is 17448221
Paul DV @paul-dv.bsky.social · 23/08/2025This covers some of it: toolkit.climate.gov/sites/defaul...toolkit.climate.gov 130
Reposted by Paul DVadvait @advaitarun.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Yesterday I wrote about how far the Inflation Reduction Act didn’t go, as comprehensive climate policy, even as it transformed how the state shaped markets. 1136
Reposted by Paul DVJen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 16/08/2025"Free D.C.! Free D.C." Chants of protest against Trump break out in the 51st minute of tonight's Washington Spirit game at Audi Field. 273936902
Reposted by Paul DVAndrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 13/08/2025🚨 REPORTERS: Join Our DOE Climate Report Media List 🚨 If you're a reporter or communicator, sign up for updates on comments regarding the DOE climate report. We will share embargoed releases, background materials, and follow-up opportunities with you.forms.gleJoin Our DOE Climate Report Media ListWe're building a list of reporters and communicators who want timely updates on our comments regarding the DOE climate report. This will help us share embargoed releases, background materials, and follow-up opportunities with you. If you have any further questions, feel free to email me. 16442
Reposted by Paul DVAvi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 24/07/2025In addition to the AI Action Plan, a few new AI-related EOs out this evening. The most interesting for energy nerds is the Data Center Infrastructure EO. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...whitehouse.govAccelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center InfrastructureBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Policy and 3115
Reposted by Paul DVRobinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 24/07/2025It’s hard to find a trend in the electricity system right now that *doesn’t* point to near-term rate hikes if not a broad affordability crisis. That’s a serious problem for climate policy, but also the American economy writ large. I wrote about it: heatmap.news/politics/ele... 9269101
Paul DV @paul-dv.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Do you have an author's link available to share? Thanks! 100
Reposted by Paul DVAvi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 30/06/2025"There is a way to apply a set of carefully crafted restrictions to wean us off Chinese supply chains, but . . . if we scatter rakes across the floor for companies to step on, they will just throw up their hands and send their investments overseas, leaving us more reliant on China than before."media.tenor.coma red car is parked next to a trailer that says u-tow on itALT: a red car is parked next to a trailer that says u-tow on it 083
Reposted by Paul DVEnergy Innovation @energyinnovation.org · 30/06/2025🚨New Report🚨 🔌💡 The U.S. Senate's “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” #Energy Provisions, will cost America 300GW of new power, $960 billion in GDP, and 770,000 lost jobs. Check out the other economic impacts of the bill 👇 energyinnovation.org/report/econo... #greensky #energyskyenergyinnovation.orgEconomic Impacts of U.S. Senate “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Energy Provisions • Energy InnovationThe Senate's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" will cost America 300GW of new power, $960 billion in GDP, and 770,000 lost jobs. 9191121
Paul DV @paul-dv.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Senate Finance Committee bill maintains tax credits for nuclear, geothermal, energy storage, and hydropower... but immediately terminates this other tax benefit? It's not clear that there's any replacement for MACRS elsewhere in the proposed text. #💡 🔌 yardsale.energy/removing-acc...yardsale.energyRemoving Accelerated Depreciation is Bad and Counter-Productive – Yardsale Energy 000
Reposted by Paul DVadvait @advaitarun.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Killing MACRS depreciation for clean energy forces all credit-eligible energy projects into transferability markets rather than into tax equity transactions. Fine for S/W. But seems bad for nuclear and geothermal... which have no transferability markets bc they're emerging tech. 5166
Reposted by Paul DVJigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 16/06/2025The infrastructure investments of the past four years represent the most significant progress since the Eisenhower era. But they are neither guaranteed nor permanent. If Congress and the Trump administration don’t act now, we won’t just cede economic advantage. We’ll see energy costs spike… 12711
Reposted by Paul DVJustin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Implications of the US LNG export boom for domestic gas prices - from EIA's latest Short-Term Energy Outlook: "Higher natural gas prices in 2025 and 2026 are the result of strong export growth that persistently outpaces U.S. natural gas production." www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/ 🔌💡 121
Paul DV @paul-dv.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Electricity demand is growing. New natural gas capacity will take time to ramp up, likely 2030. Why kill support for the only resources that could actually scale deployment in the next few years? yardsale.energy/republicans-...yardsale.energyRepublican’s HR1 Would Sledgehammer U.S. AI and Manufacturing Investments – Yardsale Energy 000
Paul DV @paul-dv.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Finally, a good picture of DOE HQ! Really captures the feeling of being nestled within a forest of concrete and glass. So soothing. 030
Reposted by Paul DVJigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 29/05/2025There has been a lot of questions about the Loan Programs Office and the work that they did over the last four years to process a record $108B of loans to help commercialize technology across the United States. A 🧵 39328
Reposted by Paul DVMichael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 27/05/2025I wrote about a scandal in the Big Beautiful Bill that should really be shocking even if it isn’t surprising. Replacing jet fuel with corn and soybeans doesn’t pencil out for the climate, so Congress wants to take away the government’s pencils. @yalee360.bsky.social e360.yale.edu/features/cor...e360.yale.eduThe ‘Green’ Aviation Fuel That Would Increase Carbon EmissionsThe U.S. agriculture lobby has long promoted ethanol for cars. If President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” becomes law, the industry would be given tax credits for producing crop-based fuel for planes, ... 814369
Reposted by Paul DVDanny Deraney @dannyderaney.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil. 11084386010460
Paul DV @paul-dv.bsky.social · 24/05/2025MC stands for "Master Class." I would definitely listen to her thoughts! 120
Reposted by Paul DVAvi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 24/05/2025DOE issues first order attempting to keep a coal plant online that was slated to retire. The JH Campbell plan in Michigan. www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...energy.gov 23418
Paul DV @paul-dv.bsky.social · 23/05/2025If ever there was an industry that needed strong, certain state support, it's nuclear. 110
Reposted by Paul DVTyler Norris @tnorris.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Highly doubtful that nuclear ITC phaseout for all post-2028 reactor starts will be sufficient to achieve industry liftoff, and it almost certainly kills most advanced reactor companies and the emerging US fusion industry. 2162
Paul DV @paul-dv.bsky.social · 22/05/2025What if big clean energy projects could earn the ITC while under construction? What if this existed and nobody knew about it? Qualified Progress Expenditures were added in the IRA and majorly benefit big projects like nuclear... if the credits survive. More at: yardsale.energy/qualified-pr... 251
Reposted by Paul DVRic O'Connell @ricoconnell.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Capacity accreditation is deep and nerdy and super important. What happened last PJM auction cycle was an ironic shift: gas underperformed in winter storm Elliot, so PJM assigned much lower capacity values to gas - dropping from ~90% to %60%. Now we had less capacity, so prices shot up #EnergySky 3106
Paul DV @paul-dv.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Coupled with the existing FEOC and "material support" restrictions it seems like there are projects which are already under construction that now won't even qualify... 031
Reposted by Paul DVTyler Norris @tnorris.bsky.social · 21/05/2025This is the deepest journalism I’ve seen yet on AI’s impact on the US power sector. I’m honored to be included w/ David Victor, Ari Peskoe, Costa Samaras, EPRI, and others. 🔌💡 www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1... 614352
Reposted by Paul DVJames Temple @jtemple.bsky.social · 20/05/2025One of the world's biggest data center booms is quietly underway just outside of Reno. Some projects have been covered, but few outlets have recognized the full scope of the plans. The developments will require gigawatts of new electricity generation & could consume billions of gallons of water.technologyreview.comThe data center boom in the desertThe AI race is transforming northwestern Nevada into one of the world's largest data-center markets—and sparking fears of water strains in the nation’s driest state. 1011485
Paul DV @paul-dv.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Thank you for confirming that Lake Champlain is a Great Lake! 010
Reposted by Paul DVMatt Zeitlin @zeitlin.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Wall Street read the Ways and Means IRA language and thought it was "better than feared": tax credits still only phased out intead of being cancelled immediately. Some clean energy stocks even went up. Then they realized the langauge would kneecap the storage industry heatmap.news/economy/wall...heatmap.newsIs Wall Street Wrong About the IRA?Investors are only just now starting to digest what the proposed cuts will mean, especially for energy storage. 34814
Reposted by Paul DVJesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 15/05/2025Let's be real: if Republicans pass the House budget bill as is, it will murder the US nuclear industry, ruin our chances of winning the AI race (by constraining power supply), concede the global auto sector to China, and vaporize about half a trillion dollars of US manufacturing investment... 29606171
Paul DV @paul-dv.bsky.social · 16/05/2025DOE's super useful guides to commercializing key technologies are back! You can find the collection of "Pathways to Commercial Liftoff" reports here: yardsale.energy/liftoff-reports Plus check out my amazing graphic design skillz! 3247
Paul DV @paul-dv.bsky.social · 14/05/2025I think my jaw hit the floor with this line: "As greenhouse gas emissions exacerbate hurricanes and wildfires that level whole U.S. communities spanning North Carolina down to southern California, the effects resemble those if China or Indonesia were to launch missiles at the United States." 031
Reposted by Paul DVJohn Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 14/05/2025🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨 In the largest multi-model study of U.S. decarbonization strategies to date, we explore technology and policy implications for reaching net-zero emissions using 14 energy-economic models. A thread of key takeaways in 10 charts... 13918
Reposted by Paul DVRobbie Orvis @robbieorvis.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Every single investor memo I’ve seen so far has completely misread the “material assistance” FEOC language from Ways and Means and drastically understated its potential impact. @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social got it dead on in his piece today. Suggest everyone read it. heatmap.news/politics/hou...heatmap.newsHow a House GOP Proposal Would Essentially Gut the IRA’s Biggest Tax CreditsIt’s not early phase-out. These 3 changes could overhaul the law’s clean electricity supports. 1265
Paul DV @paul-dv.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Proposed changes to the Inflation Reduction Act's tax credits, along with recissions to DOE's Loan Program Office funds would, would ultimately kill new nuclear projects in the US and put the nuclear industry resurgence at risk. See more at: yardsale.energy?p=43yardsale.energyReconciliation Tax Proposal Kills New Nuclear – Yardsale Energy 1166
Reposted by Paul DVGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 13/05/2025What a heart-rending, beautiful, enraging piece by #KseniiaPetrova as told to #AlexEllerbeck at the @nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The Science I Would Be Doing if I Weren’t in ICE Detention 08145
Reposted by Paul DVBrian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 12/05/2025This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-... 28351692750
Reposted by Paul DVEmily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Here is a rundown of exactly how the GOP proposal would change every clean energy tax credit. While it looks like a bunch of nips and tucks, it's probably more akin to a full repeal. More analysis from us to come. heatmap.news/politics/way...heatmap.newsThe House GOP Tax Proposal Would Effectively Kill The IRAThe Ways and Means Committee released its proposed budget language, and it’s not pretty for clean energy. 9360180
