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CEO of @EnergyInnovLLC, before that Special Assistant to @POTUS for Climate Policy, Innovation, and Deployment
Sep 9, 2020 10 tweets 4 min read
So is 100% zero carbon electricity by 2035 doable?

If we squint, we can see some possible paths, and what's most exciting - we might just be able to do it without raising electricity rates from today's.

Yeah, you read that right. I was surprised too.

THREAD ALERT! 🚨

(1/10) My friends @phadkeamol @oboylemm @Nikit_Abhyankar @EricGimon and I did some back of the envelope calculations to explore affordable paths to 100%:

reuters.com/article/us-usa… - a great piece by @ValerieVolco

Blog: energyinnovation.org/2020/09/09/a-1…

Research: energyinnovation.org/wp-content/upl…

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Dec 16, 2019 16 tweets 6 min read
THREAD (1/16)

What Will It Take to Clean Up the Electric Grid?
It's a huge undertaking to slow climate change, but we've done big things before.

The latest from me and @JustinHGillis in the @nytimes: nytimes.com/2019/12/16/opi… (2/16) #energytwitter is out there sharpening pencils to check our math as we speak. So here's some help.

We used the Energy Policy Simulator (us.energypolicy.solutions) to look at a scenario that hits ~90% clean by 2030. "Net zero" by 2030 could include offsets for the last ~10%