Happy to. DM forthcoming.

Please have at it. I welcome your “yes, and,” “yes, but,” and “no, actually.”

Crafting a plan for clean energy abundance requires precision, not abstraction.

We need to add industrial policies, end parochial restrictions, & use the labor/equity ingredients of the "everything bagel."

To actually deliver abundance, let's differentiate between those needs.

Delay #5: Workforce shortages

Solution: Use policies that ensure fair wages for construction workers, which also support workforce retention in a tight labor market. Wage standards were also part of the IRA "everything bagel," given they advance both jobs & deployment goals.

Delay #4: Community opposition

Solution: Community Benefits Agreements offer a proven tool for clean energy developers to obtain community support for projects, & for community & labor groups to secure wins. The IRA "everything bagel" encouraged CBAs as a pro-building solution.

Delay #3: Rising local restrictions on clean energy

Solution: "Abundance" proponents are right that we must end these problematic policies. But the map of the policies — across red & blue states — suggests the core problem isn't progressive overreach, but transpartisan NIMBYism.

Delay #2: A 137-week wait to obtain a large power transformer, due to dependency on imports for 4 out of 5 transformers

Solution: Enact industrial policies that stimulate domestic transformer production, including new manufacturing investments & a public stockpiling system.

Delay #1: A 5-year wait for clean energy projects to connect to the electrical grid

Solution: Fill the regulatory void that has enabled an inefficient, piecemeal approach to transmission buildout. Require proactive, systemic transmission planning to slash the long lag time.

If labor & equity incentives aren't holding up clean energy projects, what is?

Here are 5 of the biggest sources of delay, according to clean energy developers themselves.

Many of these delays point not to an excess of policymaking, but an absence.

Labor & equity incentives didn't deter clean energy firms from applying for up to 10x the available IRA funding.

And post-IRA data show potential for a win-win-win: ~100GW of clean energy built, unprecedented clean energy union density, AND 75% of investments going to low-income counties.

They taste good because they combine ingredients that go well together.

The question — whether for bagels or policies — is, are we using congruent ingredients?

Clean energy, union jobs, & equitable investments — like garlic, onion, & poppy seeds — can indeed pair well together.

A common "abundance" critique of the IRA is that the law's core strategy — uniting climate, jobs, & justice goals — tries to do too much.

Such "everything bagel" policymaking is said to slow clean energy deployment.

But here's the thing about everything bagels: They taste good.

The article names broadly-backed remedies for 5 major clean energy delays.

While some "abundance" fans call for policy rollbacks, fixing these delays often requires the opposite.

Here's the link. Come for the policy debate. Stay for the bagel metaphors.

heatmap.news/ideas/abunda...

Thanks, Mike. I'm in the UK, speaking at a convening, and just dropped the everything bagel metaphor. Thought about trying to find a scone equivalent, but turns out the bagel heuristic also works on this side of the Atlantic.