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Managing Director for clean energy, @ClimateEnvoy John Kerry // Prev CTO @ReNew_Power @ColumbiaUEnergy @CFR_org. Husband to @laxmisarathy. Tweets mine
Sep 15, 2020 13 tweets 9 min read
🚨🚨Today we're publishing Energizing America: A Roadmap to Launch a National Energy Innovation Mission! You can download it for free from @ColumbiaUEnergy or order the paperback on Amazon (#1 clean energy new release!). 🧵👇🏽on what it's all about (1/10) bit.ly/energizingamer… The US has a storied history of launching national innovation missions. They've delivered life-saving drugs, spawned the computer & internet revolutions, and put a man on the Moon. But we've never launched a serious, sustained innovation mission to combat climate change (2/10)
Jul 30, 2018 8 tweets 5 min read
THREAD: Tired of sifting hype from reality about blockchain & energy? So were we. So @DLatAC, @madisoncfreeman, @fiege_max, & I created the largest, freely-available dataset of global blockchain ventures & dug into the data in our NEW @CFR_org report: cfr.org/report/applyin… The least radical blockchain applications (think enhanced wholesale markets; NOT replacing centralized grid w P2P) are most likely to succeed & have meaningful impact by helping system operators manage increasingly complex grid. Our quick take on @Axios: axios.com/in-energy-sect…
Jun 25, 2018 15 tweets 9 min read
THREAD: Our new book, "Digital Decarbonization," is OUT TODAY!! Read on 👇for previews of what our thirteen expert authors had to say. Then pick up a copy in paperback or Amazon Kindle (amazon.com/Digital-Decarb…) or download the whole book for free (cfr.org/report/digital…) (1/15) Will the digital revolution speed a clean energy transition? @MichelsonEvan and I convened ~40 experts @CFR_org to discuss. In my book intro, I pull back the curtain on the vibrant debate we had, in which many worried digitalization might raise, not lower, GHG emissions (2/15)