Greg Nemet
@gregnemet.net
Energy climate tech innovation policy for inclusive well-being.
U.Wisc Prof @UWLaFollette @uw_eap 🍁
How Solar Got Cheap http://www.amzn.com/1032597496
U.Wisc Prof @UWLaFollette @uw_eap 🍁
How Solar Got Cheap http://www.amzn.com/1032597496
Unique opportunity here to serve as a Chapter Scientist for IPCC 7th Assessment Report.
Apply by 18 October
IPCC seeking highly motivated early-career researchers from developing countries and economies in transition to be Chapter Scientists for AR7.
Details below…
www.ictp.it/opportunity/...
Apply by 18 October
IPCC seeking highly motivated early-career researchers from developing countries and economies in transition to be Chapter Scientists for AR7.
Details below…
www.ictp.it/opportunity/...
IPCC AR7 Chapter Scientists | ICTP
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is in the process of preparing its Seventh Assessment report (AR7). The IPCC Working Groups are seeking highly motivated early-career researchers f...
www.ictp.it
September 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Unique opportunity here to serve as a Chapter Scientist for IPCC 7th Assessment Report.
Apply by 18 October
IPCC seeking highly motivated early-career researchers from developing countries and economies in transition to be Chapter Scientists for AR7.
Details below…
www.ictp.it/opportunity/...
Apply by 18 October
IPCC seeking highly motivated early-career researchers from developing countries and economies in transition to be Chapter Scientists for AR7.
Details below…
www.ictp.it/opportunity/...
Join our team working on Environmental Policy at U.Wisconsin.
Delighted to announce The La Follette School of Public Affairs at University of Wisconsin-Madison has just launched a search for an Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy.
Deadline: October 24, 2025.
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Delighted to announce The La Follette School of Public Affairs at University of Wisconsin-Madison has just launched a search for an Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy.
Deadline: October 24, 2025.
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
jobs.wisc.edu
September 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Join our team working on Environmental Policy at U.Wisconsin.
Delighted to announce The La Follette School of Public Affairs at University of Wisconsin-Madison has just launched a search for an Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy.
Deadline: October 24, 2025.
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Delighted to announce The La Follette School of Public Affairs at University of Wisconsin-Madison has just launched a search for an Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy.
Deadline: October 24, 2025.
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
New book coming out July 18:
2nd ed. of How Solar Energy Became Cheap, now titled, “Pathway to a Solar Centric Economy.”
New focus on long term implications of continued trends in PV:
1. Solar becomes the core of global energy system
2. Need to prepare to take advantage of it
gregnemet.net/book
2nd ed. of How Solar Energy Became Cheap, now titled, “Pathway to a Solar Centric Economy.”
New focus on long term implications of continued trends in PV:
1. Solar becomes the core of global energy system
2. Need to prepare to take advantage of it
gregnemet.net/book
June 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
New book coming out July 18:
2nd ed. of How Solar Energy Became Cheap, now titled, “Pathway to a Solar Centric Economy.”
New focus on long term implications of continued trends in PV:
1. Solar becomes the core of global energy system
2. Need to prepare to take advantage of it
gregnemet.net/book
2nd ed. of How Solar Energy Became Cheap, now titled, “Pathway to a Solar Centric Economy.”
New focus on long term implications of continued trends in PV:
1. Solar becomes the core of global energy system
2. Need to prepare to take advantage of it
gregnemet.net/book
New paper led by Prof. Lena Neij "Beyond Market Failures" for solar policy. Focuses on the roles that policy can play in enabling residential adoption. Case study of Sweden.
academic.oup.com/ooenergy/adv...
academic.oup.com/ooenergy/adv...
Beyond market failures: understanding the need for dedicated deployment policy for solar PV in Sweden
Abstract. The urgency of decarbonization calls for a deeper understanding of PV deployment in terms of planning, acquisition and installation, and of the j
academic.oup.com
May 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
New paper led by Prof. Lena Neij "Beyond Market Failures" for solar policy. Focuses on the roles that policy can play in enabling residential adoption. Case study of Sweden.
academic.oup.com/ooenergy/adv...
academic.oup.com/ooenergy/adv...
Reposted by Greg Nemet
It should be more well known that @solarchase.bsky.social and @gregnemet.net and Erica Fuchs are quoted in the chapter, very much at the heart of what makes it excellent.
May 26, 2025 at 3:25 AM
It should be more well known that @solarchase.bsky.social and @gregnemet.net and Erica Fuchs are quoted in the chapter, very much at the heart of what makes it excellent.
The State of CDR team is hiring. The Head of Partnerships position will help us advance international collaboration on scaling carbon dioxide removal.
Come work with an international team.
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/head-of...
Come work with an international team.
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/head-of...
Head of Partnerships - State of Carbon Dioxide Removal - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Job Summary:
This is an exciting opportunity to lead the CDR institution building activities for the ground- breaking State of Carbon Dioxide Removal (SoCDR) initiative as it enters into a new phase...
jobs.wisc.edu
May 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The State of CDR team is hiring. The Head of Partnerships position will help us advance international collaboration on scaling carbon dioxide removal.
Come work with an international team.
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/head-of...
Come work with an international team.
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/head-of...
I am hiring a 2-year post doc at U.Wisconsin on “technological innovation and climate change“ as part of the GENIE project:
genie.ece.iiasa.ac.at/about
Priority deadline is 14 March 2025 and start is spring/summer 2025.
More details at:
uwmadison.box.com/v/techchange...
genie.ece.iiasa.ac.at/about
Priority deadline is 14 March 2025 and start is spring/summer 2025.
More details at:
uwmadison.box.com/v/techchange...
GENIE
genie.ece.iiasa.ac.at
February 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I am hiring a 2-year post doc at U.Wisconsin on “technological innovation and climate change“ as part of the GENIE project:
genie.ece.iiasa.ac.at/about
Priority deadline is 14 March 2025 and start is spring/summer 2025.
More details at:
uwmadison.box.com/v/techchange...
genie.ece.iiasa.ac.at/about
Priority deadline is 14 March 2025 and start is spring/summer 2025.
More details at:
uwmadison.box.com/v/techchange...
Reposted by Greg Nemet
Thanks to @gwagner.com, @gregnemet.bsky.social and @cleanenergywire.bsky.social for sharing insights about what the new secretary of energy missed when talking about German energy policy.
I wrote about Chris Wright's introductory speech, and his tangent about Germany's energy transition. To boil Germany's experience down to a cautionary tale is missing the plot.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1302202...
#energysky
insideclimatenews.org/news/1302202...
#energysky
Trump’s New Energy Secretary Called Germany’s Energy Transition ‘Unreliable.’ But He Missed All the Nuance - Inside Climate News
Chris Wright spent part of his introductory speech criticizing German policies and championing natural gas. Experts in and out of the country say he oversimplified a complex process.
insideclimatenews.org
February 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Thanks to @gwagner.com, @gregnemet.bsky.social and @cleanenergywire.bsky.social for sharing insights about what the new secretary of energy missed when talking about German energy policy.
Reposted by Greg Nemet
Not every technology has the same learning rate—and some technologies don’t even have a learning curve. There has been some good research into what traits make a technology better for learning curves. We’d do a lot better as a society if that work was applied more readily to public policy.
December 30, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Not every technology has the same learning rate—and some technologies don’t even have a learning curve. There has been some good research into what traits make a technology better for learning curves. We’d do a lot better as a society if that work was applied more readily to public policy.
Reposted by Greg Nemet
Thank you kindly!
Check out also John Perlin’s from Space to Earth and/or Let it Shine.
@gregnemet.bsky.social How Solar Energy Became Cheap. www.routledge.com/How-Solar-En...
and @solarchase.bsky.social ‘s Solar power finance w/o jargon book.
Check out also John Perlin’s from Space to Earth and/or Let it Shine.
@gregnemet.bsky.social How Solar Energy Became Cheap. www.routledge.com/How-Solar-En...
and @solarchase.bsky.social ‘s Solar power finance w/o jargon book.
How Solar Energy Became Cheap: A Model for Low-Carbon Innovation
Solar energy is a substantial global industry, one that has generated trade disputes among superpowers, threatened the solvency of large energy companies, and prompted serious reconsideration of elect...
www.routledge.com
December 1, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Thank you kindly!
Check out also John Perlin’s from Space to Earth and/or Let it Shine.
@gregnemet.bsky.social How Solar Energy Became Cheap. www.routledge.com/How-Solar-En...
and @solarchase.bsky.social ‘s Solar power finance w/o jargon book.
Check out also John Perlin’s from Space to Earth and/or Let it Shine.
@gregnemet.bsky.social How Solar Energy Became Cheap. www.routledge.com/How-Solar-En...
and @solarchase.bsky.social ‘s Solar power finance w/o jargon book.
Reposted by Greg Nemet
Not so much about the history of solar technologies in my memory, but the book "Solar Power" (www.ucpress.edu/books/solar-...) and the great work by @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social 🔆
Solar Power by Dustin Mulvaney - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
December 1, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Not so much about the history of solar technologies in my memory, but the book "Solar Power" (www.ucpress.edu/books/solar-...) and the great work by @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social 🔆
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❓How to achieve high wellbeing with low impacts: Our seminar at #COP29 shows demand-side solutions for green transformation.
👉 What's your example?
🕘15 Nov., 15:45 -17:00 local time
Moderated by Joyashree Roy, talks by @dianaurge.bsky.social, @KeigoAkimoto, @BasvanRuijven, @gregnemet.bsky.social
👉 What's your example?
🕘15 Nov., 15:45 -17:00 local time
Moderated by Joyashree Roy, talks by @dianaurge.bsky.social, @KeigoAkimoto, @BasvanRuijven, @gregnemet.bsky.social
November 14, 2024 at 4:05 PM
❓How to achieve high wellbeing with low impacts: Our seminar at #COP29 shows demand-side solutions for green transformation.
👉 What's your example?
🕘15 Nov., 15:45 -17:00 local time
Moderated by Joyashree Roy, talks by @dianaurge.bsky.social, @KeigoAkimoto, @BasvanRuijven, @gregnemet.bsky.social
👉 What's your example?
🕘15 Nov., 15:45 -17:00 local time
Moderated by Joyashree Roy, talks by @dianaurge.bsky.social, @KeigoAkimoto, @BasvanRuijven, @gregnemet.bsky.social
For those at #COP29 join us at the Japan Pavilion on Friday 15:45 for a session on:
“Pathway to the Green Transformation of Society”
on our work on low energy demand with:
Joyashree Roy, AIT
Bas van Ruijven, IIASA
Keigo Akimoto, RITE
Greg Nemet, U.Wisconsin
Diana Urge-Vorsatz, IPCC
Also streamed:
“Pathway to the Green Transformation of Society”
on our work on low energy demand with:
Joyashree Roy, AIT
Bas van Ruijven, IIASA
Keigo Akimoto, RITE
Greg Nemet, U.Wisconsin
Diana Urge-Vorsatz, IPCC
Also streamed:
Pathway to the Green Transformation of Society - EDITS at COP29
Diffusion of novel digital technologies and major social innovation trends are expected to bring about changes on the demand-side that roll-out GX in the entire socio-economy. A comprehensive evaluati...
iiasa.ac.at
November 11, 2024 at 7:54 PM
For those at #COP29 join us at the Japan Pavilion on Friday 15:45 for a session on:
“Pathway to the Green Transformation of Society”
on our work on low energy demand with:
Joyashree Roy, AIT
Bas van Ruijven, IIASA
Keigo Akimoto, RITE
Greg Nemet, U.Wisconsin
Diana Urge-Vorsatz, IPCC
Also streamed:
“Pathway to the Green Transformation of Society”
on our work on low energy demand with:
Joyashree Roy, AIT
Bas van Ruijven, IIASA
Keigo Akimoto, RITE
Greg Nemet, U.Wisconsin
Diana Urge-Vorsatz, IPCC
Also streamed:
Reposted by Greg Nemet
🚨 Join the COP29 seminar
📆 On 15.Nov. at 15:45 (local time)/12:45CET/20:45JST
📈 Pathway to the Green Transformation of Society
▶️ how novel digital technologies diffuse and what major social innovation trends are seen that positively influence our common future. iiasa.ac.at/events/nov-2...
📆 On 15.Nov. at 15:45 (local time)/12:45CET/20:45JST
📈 Pathway to the Green Transformation of Society
▶️ how novel digital technologies diffuse and what major social innovation trends are seen that positively influence our common future. iiasa.ac.at/events/nov-2...
November 11, 2024 at 8:49 AM
🚨 Join the COP29 seminar
📆 On 15.Nov. at 15:45 (local time)/12:45CET/20:45JST
📈 Pathway to the Green Transformation of Society
▶️ how novel digital technologies diffuse and what major social innovation trends are seen that positively influence our common future. iiasa.ac.at/events/nov-2...
📆 On 15.Nov. at 15:45 (local time)/12:45CET/20:45JST
📈 Pathway to the Green Transformation of Society
▶️ how novel digital technologies diffuse and what major social innovation trends are seen that positively influence our common future. iiasa.ac.at/events/nov-2...
Important report heading into COP29:
The 2024 Climate Technology Progress Report from the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre.
Follows up on where we are after the commitments made at COP28 last year.
Report launch and webinar this Friday November 1
register.gotowebinar.com/register/120...
The 2024 Climate Technology Progress Report from the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre.
Follows up on where we are after the commitments made at COP28 last year.
Report launch and webinar this Friday November 1
register.gotowebinar.com/register/120...
register.gotowebinar.com
register.gotowebinar.com
October 29, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Important report heading into COP29:
The 2024 Climate Technology Progress Report from the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre.
Follows up on where we are after the commitments made at COP28 last year.
Report launch and webinar this Friday November 1
register.gotowebinar.com/register/120...
The 2024 Climate Technology Progress Report from the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre.
Follows up on where we are after the commitments made at COP28 last year.
Report launch and webinar this Friday November 1
register.gotowebinar.com/register/120...
Cat Clifford captures challenges of the energy transition in a purple swing state, Wisconsin
“Shared revenue programs” key to getting communities on board
Large solar preferable to CAFO
(Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation) w water quality concerns and others
www.ciphernews.com/articles/wha...
“Shared revenue programs” key to getting communities on board
Large solar preferable to CAFO
(Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation) w water quality concerns and others
www.ciphernews.com/articles/wha...
What it takes to build green energy in fossil fuel-dependent Wisconsin - Cipher News
For Wisconsin to lower its reliance fossil fuels, it will need a lot more solar farms. But in politically-purple Wisconsin, government pressure to pursue more clean energy has been middling.
www.ciphernews.com
October 29, 2024 at 9:26 AM
Cat Clifford captures challenges of the energy transition in a purple swing state, Wisconsin
“Shared revenue programs” key to getting communities on board
Large solar preferable to CAFO
(Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation) w water quality concerns and others
www.ciphernews.com/articles/wha...
“Shared revenue programs” key to getting communities on board
Large solar preferable to CAFO
(Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation) w water quality concerns and others
www.ciphernews.com/articles/wha...
Paul Haavardsrud on CBC "Cost of Living" on the future of solar
Solar is sneaking up on people
It’s 6% of global electricity, growing at 30%/yr,
and it's been growing like that for 30 years.
It won’t take many more years of that to make an impact Revolutionary? maybe
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Solar is sneaking up on people
It’s 6% of global electricity, growing at 30%/yr,
and it's been growing like that for 30 years.
It won’t take many more years of that to make an impact Revolutionary? maybe
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
The solar power revolution is coming | Cost of Living with Paul Haavardsrud | Live Radio | CBC Listen
Solar power is at the dawn of a quiet revolution. Costs are coming down fast and technology is only getting better. By 2035, solar could make up half of the world's electricity generation. So what could boundless cheap energy mean for us?
www.cbc.ca
September 26, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Paul Haavardsrud on CBC "Cost of Living" on the future of solar
Solar is sneaking up on people
It’s 6% of global electricity, growing at 30%/yr,
and it's been growing like that for 30 years.
It won’t take many more years of that to make an impact Revolutionary? maybe
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Solar is sneaking up on people
It’s 6% of global electricity, growing at 30%/yr,
and it's been growing like that for 30 years.
It won’t take many more years of that to make an impact Revolutionary? maybe
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Reposted by Greg Nemet
Read this fascinating Science|Business article on the origins of #SolarPower featuring research from Sugandha Srivastav and @gregnemet.bsky.social :
sciencebusiness.net/news/how-che...
@inetoxford.bsky.social @universityofoxford.bsky.social
sciencebusiness.net/news/how-che...
@inetoxford.bsky.social @universityofoxford.bsky.social
How cheap solar power could have arrived decades ago
If there’s a good news climate change story right now, one to counteract the grim daily scroll of reports about wildfires, droughts, dying coral reefs, and deadly heatwaves, it’s the stunning rise of ...
sciencebusiness.net
September 6, 2024 at 8:26 AM
Read this fascinating Science|Business article on the origins of #SolarPower featuring research from Sugandha Srivastav and @gregnemet.bsky.social :
sciencebusiness.net/news/how-che...
@inetoxford.bsky.social @universityofoxford.bsky.social
sciencebusiness.net/news/how-che...
@inetoxford.bsky.social @universityofoxford.bsky.social
Good overview by @catclifford.bsky.social of clean energy policy in midwestern swing states: MI, PA, WI.
- MI clear leader
- WI has lagged, can look to MI
- PA a fossil-state producer, but 35% RPS possible
www.ciphernews.com/articles/loo...
- MI clear leader
- WI has lagged, can look to MI
- PA a fossil-state producer, but 35% RPS possible
www.ciphernews.com/articles/loo...
Here's how cleantech stacks up in three swing states - Cipher News
We take stock of cleantech and the election in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
www.ciphernews.com
September 5, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Good overview by @catclifford.bsky.social of clean energy policy in midwestern swing states: MI, PA, WI.
- MI clear leader
- WI has lagged, can look to MI
- PA a fossil-state producer, but 35% RPS possible
www.ciphernews.com/articles/loo...
- MI clear leader
- WI has lagged, can look to MI
- PA a fossil-state producer, but 35% RPS possible
www.ciphernews.com/articles/loo...
New paper
“Lessons for scaling direct air capture from the history of ammonia synthesis”
Led by Cameron Roberts
in short:
If high temp DAC can grow like ammonia it can meet 2050 targets,
but needs strong social consensus and support, currently missing
authors.elsevier.com/c/1jdqo7tZ6a...
“Lessons for scaling direct air capture from the history of ammonia synthesis”
Led by Cameron Roberts
in short:
If high temp DAC can grow like ammonia it can meet 2050 targets,
but needs strong social consensus and support, currently missing
authors.elsevier.com/c/1jdqo7tZ6a...
August 27, 2024 at 7:38 PM
New paper
“Lessons for scaling direct air capture from the history of ammonia synthesis”
Led by Cameron Roberts
in short:
If high temp DAC can grow like ammonia it can meet 2050 targets,
but needs strong social consensus and support, currently missing
authors.elsevier.com/c/1jdqo7tZ6a...
“Lessons for scaling direct air capture from the history of ammonia synthesis”
Led by Cameron Roberts
in short:
If high temp DAC can grow like ammonia it can meet 2050 targets,
but needs strong social consensus and support, currently missing
authors.elsevier.com/c/1jdqo7tZ6a...
Nice overview of the challenges of upscaling Direct Air Capture to become big enough to be relevant to the climate challenge by Alec Kuhn in Scientific American
“Can Pulling Carbon from Thin Air Slow Climate Change?”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-...
“Can Pulling Carbon from Thin Air Slow Climate Change?”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-...
Can Thousands of Huge Machines Capture Enough Carbon to Slow Climate Change?
Tech firms, oil companies and the U.S. government are investing billions of dollars in carbon capture technology to suck greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. Can it save the warming world?
www.scientificamerican.com
August 23, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Nice overview of the challenges of upscaling Direct Air Capture to become big enough to be relevant to the climate challenge by Alec Kuhn in Scientific American
“Can Pulling Carbon from Thin Air Slow Climate Change?”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-...
“Can Pulling Carbon from Thin Air Slow Climate Change?”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-...
Reposted by Greg Nemet
“It’s now a sexy topic if you’re in Silicon Valley to have a CDR startup, which like five years ago would have been a crazy idea,” @gregnemet.bsky.social
But is this a good or bad thing?
Read on: eenews.net/articles/car...
1/
But is this a good or bad thing?
Read on: eenews.net/articles/car...
1/
December 19, 2023 at 1:37 PM
“It’s now a sexy topic if you’re in Silicon Valley to have a CDR startup, which like five years ago would have been a crazy idea,” @gregnemet.bsky.social
But is this a good or bad thing?
Read on: eenews.net/articles/car...
1/
But is this a good or bad thing?
Read on: eenews.net/articles/car...
1/
www.eenews.net/articles/car...
@chelseaeharvey.bsky.social reports on the implications of mainstreaming carbon removal
@chelseaeharvey.bsky.social reports on the implications of mainstreaming carbon removal
Carbon removal isn’t weird anymore. That worries scientists.
Tech fixes for sucking climate pollution from the air are gaining ground globally. It was never supposed to happen.
www.eenews.net
December 18, 2023 at 9:50 PM
www.eenews.net/articles/car...
@chelseaeharvey.bsky.social reports on the implications of mainstreaming carbon removal
@chelseaeharvey.bsky.social reports on the implications of mainstreaming carbon removal
@mrmattsimon.bsky.social in Wired on assessing COP28 and the future role of carbon removal as an enabler of -- and as a distraction from -- net zero emissions. tldr: it's both.
www.wired.com/story/why-de...
www.wired.com/story/why-de...
Why Deleting Carbon From the Atmosphere Is So Controversial
Delegates just agreed on a historic climate deal at COP28. But without more ambition, humanity will have to rely ever more on a contentious strategy: carbon removal.
www.wired.com
December 14, 2023 at 4:19 PM
@mrmattsimon.bsky.social in Wired on assessing COP28 and the future role of carbon removal as an enabler of -- and as a distraction from -- net zero emissions. tldr: it's both.
www.wired.com/story/why-de...
www.wired.com/story/why-de...