Scaling grid innovation @heronpower 🌎 formerly senior advisor @ClimateEnvoy, venture capital @EnergyImpact_, policy @CFR_org, & fellow @Energy_Leaders
Santa Cruz, CA
Joined November 2014
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Some personal news!! Tomorrow will be my last day as an advisor to the @ClimateEnvoy.
I’m headed to @Stanford as a @KnightHennessy Fellow, pursuing an MBA + MS in the brand-new climate school.
american.edu/sis/news/202205…
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Really great looking seminar on FOAK project financing and development featuring @MadisonCFreeman and @FervoEnergy's own Gabe Malek. April 18, 12pm PT.
Open to the public, sign up here: events.stanford.edu/event/sf…
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Excited to support @MadisonCFreeman’s seminar on financing First of a Kind climate projects through the Stanford Sustainable Finance Institute. Please join next week!
events.stanford.edu/event/sf…
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The European Union officially adopts a clean hydrogen definition, grounded on the "Three Pillars" assessed in @wilson_ricks & my paper (iopscience.iop.org/article/1…):
1. New supply
2. Deliverability
3. Hourly matching.
The US must follow suit and adopt rules at least as stringent.
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I spoke about this a few weeks ago at NREL. We need a more robust capital ecosystem this time around, not just VCs and mainstream infra.
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*Another* exciting industrial heat announcement for the day -- @rondoenergy is building a factory in Thailand that will be 2.5x the size of Tesla's gigafactory to produce heat batteries with widely available materials
🚀Big News in #cleanenergy! Rondo Energy is set to operate the world's largest battery factory in partnership with Siam Cement Group. This facility will have a staggering 90 GWh/year capacity! A game-changer for decarbonizing the industrial sector! 🔋
pv-magazine-usa.com/2023/06/…
Making your next beer more electric -- congratulations @AddisonKStark and the rest of the @AtmosZeroSteam team on the public announcement of their exciting new industrial decarbonization tech!
Soon your bottle of Fat Tire Ale could be made using steam from an electric-powered heat pump — not a fossil-fueled boiler. @jeffsaintjohn on AtmosZero's newly unstealthed technology that could to fill a niche in the industrial decarbonization landscape 🍻
canarymedia.com/articles/hea…
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A must read for anyone working in climate tech. We need more creative approaches to capital to scale new and existing climate solutions. ctvc.co/project-finance-bank…
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Whats missing from the narrative is SVB is a climate bank
heatmap.news/technology/svb-…
A massive backlog of interconnection requests is blocking the🌞solar deployments we need to decarbonize our grid -- and the problem is getting worse each year. Great analysis out of @climatetech_vc
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stories on America's political divide:
- tired
- see it every day
stories on America's HOME HEATING divide:
- wow, new information
- relevant to decarbonization
- how did it get like this??
Very proud of this piece w/ @JohnMuyskens and @NaemaAhmed
washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
Very exciting -- @Universal_H2 just flew the largest plane powered by hydrogen!
UH2's hydrogen modules are loaded on the plane like cargo instead of requiring traditional fueling (== safer, greener, & more economic) & the jet size can serve real regional routes
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US EV manufacturing is now on track to reach 4.5 million vehicles a year, with more projects in the pipeline. Once preliminary plans announced by Ford, Honda, Volvo, and BMW are finalized, production levels could meet the Biden administration’s goal of 50% EV sales by 2030. 3/8
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Four years ago today, John & I built up enough conviction to start @WeaveGrid
Even back then, I remember us talking about "how do we attract the best talent to solve these hairy problems in climate?"
And now we're doing it, as I say in @washingtonpost
washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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Want to help scale carbon removal technologies?
We’ve identified 100+ research and innovation gaps that need filling:
Here are 15 of them that need attention. 👇🏻
frontierclimate.com/writing/…
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A typical highway car and truck stop that is fully electrified will need about as much power as a small town...
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Read the full release on the new announcements👇🏽. Huge thank you to our partners @wef (@Antoniagawel and your whole climate team), to @BCG, and to my amazing USG partners @DLinDC, @Annie_K_H (& alums @SagatomSaha @MadisonCFreeman over the last year!)
weforum.org/press/2022/11/fi… (3/3)
in the (very few) studies that have been done, around 1/4 to 1/3 of EV chargers are broken at any time — and often it takes 3+ weeks to fix them
Huge opportunity for companies like @ChargerHelp @KamealeC to fix this and make our EV infrastructure actually work for everyone
Broken chargers are a big problem for EV adoption. We don’t have national data on this yet, but nearly 1/4 of chargers in the San Francisco area were broken, according to a recent study from the non-profit Cool the Earth. 🧵👇
nytimes.com/2022/08/16/busin…
Had an amazing time visiting @antoraenergy on Friday! Here’s CEO Andrew Ponec and I dressed in our most stylish outfits in their lab, where Antora is developing a new way to decarbonize industrial heat and power
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New investigation by Reuters finds "the nation’s ethanol plants produce more than double the climate-damaging pollution, per gallon of fuel production capacity, than the nation’s oil refineries."
We need to end the disasterous Renewable Fuels Standard. reuters.com/business/sustain…
