Paul DV
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Energy nerd. Weird coffee person. Telemark skier.
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Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out.
Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.
Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.
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On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding. In response, over 85 scientists have come together to write a comprehensive review, which is
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September 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out.
Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.
Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.
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Yesterday I wrote about how far the Inflation Reduction Act didn’t go, as comprehensive climate policy, even as it transformed how the state shaped markets.
On the third anniversary of the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act, @heatmap.news contributor @advaitarun.bsky.social mourns what U.S. climate policy has lost — but more importantly, charts a course to what comes next:
Now We Decide the Future of U.S. Climate Policy
On the third anniversary of the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act, Heatmap contributor Advait Arun mourns what’s been lost — but more importantly, charts a path toward what comes next.
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August 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Yesterday I wrote about how far the Inflation Reduction Act didn’t go, as comprehensive climate policy, even as it transformed how the state shaped markets.
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"Free D.C.! Free D.C."
Chants of protest against Trump break out in the 51st minute of tonight's Washington Spirit game at Audi Field.
Chants of protest against Trump break out in the 51st minute of tonight's Washington Spirit game at Audi Field.
August 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
"Free D.C.! Free D.C."
Chants of protest against Trump break out in the 51st minute of tonight's Washington Spirit game at Audi Field.
Chants of protest against Trump break out in the 51st minute of tonight's Washington Spirit game at Audi Field.
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🚨 REPORTERS: Join Our DOE Climate Report Media List 🚨
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We're building a list of reporters and communicators who want timely updates on our comments regarding the DOE climate report. This will help us share embargoed releases, background materials, and follow-up opportunities with you.
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August 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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If you're a reporter or communicator, sign up for updates on comments regarding the DOE climate report. We will share embargoed releases, background materials, and follow-up opportunities with you.
If you're a reporter or communicator, sign up for updates on comments regarding the DOE climate report. We will share embargoed releases, background materials, and follow-up opportunities with you.
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In addition to the AI Action Plan, a few new AI-related EOs out this evening. The most interesting for energy nerds is the Data Center Infrastructure EO.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Policy and
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July 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
In addition to the AI Action Plan, a few new AI-related EOs out this evening. The most interesting for energy nerds is the Data Center Infrastructure EO.
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It’s hard to find a trend in the electricity system right now that *doesn’t* point to near-term rate hikes if not a broad affordability crisis. That’s a serious problem for climate policy, but also the American economy writ large. I wrote about it: heatmap.news/politics/ele...
July 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
It’s hard to find a trend in the electricity system right now that *doesn’t* point to near-term rate hikes if not a broad affordability crisis. That’s a serious problem for climate policy, but also the American economy writ large. I wrote about it: heatmap.news/politics/ele...
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"There is a way to apply a set of carefully crafted restrictions to wean us off Chinese supply chains, but . . . if we scatter rakes across the floor for companies to step on, they will just throw up their hands and send their investments overseas, leaving us more reliant on China than before."
a red car is parked next to a trailer that says u-tow on it
ALT: a red car is parked next to a trailer that says u-tow on it
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June 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
"There is a way to apply a set of carefully crafted restrictions to wean us off Chinese supply chains, but . . . if we scatter rakes across the floor for companies to step on, they will just throw up their hands and send their investments overseas, leaving us more reliant on China than before."
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🚨New Report🚨
🔌💡 The U.S. Senate's “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” #Energy Provisions, will cost America 300GW of new power, $960 billion in GDP, and 770,000 lost jobs.
Check out the other economic impacts of the bill 👇
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#greensky #energysky
🔌💡 The U.S. Senate's “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” #Energy Provisions, will cost America 300GW of new power, $960 billion in GDP, and 770,000 lost jobs.
Check out the other economic impacts of the bill 👇
energyinnovation.org/report/econo...
#greensky #energysky
Economic Impacts of U.S. Senate “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Energy Provisions • Energy Innovation
The Senate's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" will cost America 300GW of new power, $960 billion in GDP, and 770,000 lost jobs.
energyinnovation.org
June 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🚨New Report🚨
🔌💡 The U.S. Senate's “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” #Energy Provisions, will cost America 300GW of new power, $960 billion in GDP, and 770,000 lost jobs.
Check out the other economic impacts of the bill 👇
energyinnovation.org/report/econo...
#greensky #energysky
🔌💡 The U.S. Senate's “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” #Energy Provisions, will cost America 300GW of new power, $960 billion in GDP, and 770,000 lost jobs.
Check out the other economic impacts of the bill 👇
energyinnovation.org/report/econo...
#greensky #energysky
Senate Finance Committee bill maintains tax credits for nuclear, geothermal, energy storage, and hydropower... but immediately terminates this other tax benefit?
It's not clear that there's any replacement for MACRS elsewhere in the proposed text.
#💡 🔌
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It's not clear that there's any replacement for MACRS elsewhere in the proposed text.
#💡 🔌
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Removing Accelerated Depreciation is Bad and Counter-Productive – Yardsale Energy
yardsale.energy
June 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Senate Finance Committee bill maintains tax credits for nuclear, geothermal, energy storage, and hydropower... but immediately terminates this other tax benefit?
It's not clear that there's any replacement for MACRS elsewhere in the proposed text.
#💡 🔌
yardsale.energy/removing-acc...
It's not clear that there's any replacement for MACRS elsewhere in the proposed text.
#💡 🔌
yardsale.energy/removing-acc...
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Killing MACRS depreciation for clean energy forces all credit-eligible energy projects into transferability markets rather than into tax equity transactions. Fine for S/W. But seems bad for nuclear and geothermal... which have no transferability markets bc they're emerging tech.
June 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Killing MACRS depreciation for clean energy forces all credit-eligible energy projects into transferability markets rather than into tax equity transactions. Fine for S/W. But seems bad for nuclear and geothermal... which have no transferability markets bc they're emerging tech.
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The infrastructure investments of the past four years represent the most significant progress since the Eisenhower era. But they are neither guaranteed nor permanent. If Congress and the Trump administration don’t act now, we won’t just cede economic advantage. We’ll see energy costs spike…
June 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The infrastructure investments of the past four years represent the most significant progress since the Eisenhower era. But they are neither guaranteed nor permanent. If Congress and the Trump administration don’t act now, we won’t just cede economic advantage. We’ll see energy costs spike…
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Implications of the US LNG export boom for domestic gas prices - from EIA's latest Short-Term Energy Outlook: "Higher natural gas prices in 2025 and 2026 are the result of strong export growth that persistently outpaces U.S. natural gas production." www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/ 🔌💡
June 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Implications of the US LNG export boom for domestic gas prices - from EIA's latest Short-Term Energy Outlook: "Higher natural gas prices in 2025 and 2026 are the result of strong export growth that persistently outpaces U.S. natural gas production." www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/ 🔌💡
Electricity demand is growing. New natural gas capacity will take time to ramp up, likely 2030. Why kill support for the only resources that could actually scale deployment in the next few years?
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Republican’s HR1 Would Sledgehammer U.S. AI and Manufacturing Investments – Yardsale Energy
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June 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Electricity demand is growing. New natural gas capacity will take time to ramp up, likely 2030. Why kill support for the only resources that could actually scale deployment in the next few years?
yardsale.energy/republicans-...
yardsale.energy/republicans-...
Finally, a good picture of DOE HQ! Really captures the feeling of being nestled within a forest of concrete and glass. So soothing.
Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many federal employees dismissed under DOGE’s staff-slashing initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process.
Trump races to fix a big mistake: DOGE fired too many people
Across the government, the administration is rehiring federal workers who were forced out or encouraged to resign.
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June 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Finally, a good picture of DOE HQ! Really captures the feeling of being nestled within a forest of concrete and glass. So soothing.
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There has been a lot of questions about the Loan Programs Office and the work that they did over the last four years to process a record $108B of loans to help commercialize technology across the United States. A 🧵
May 29, 2025 at 12:41 AM
There has been a lot of questions about the Loan Programs Office and the work that they did over the last four years to process a record $108B of loans to help commercialize technology across the United States. A 🧵
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I wrote about a scandal in the Big Beautiful Bill that should really be shocking even if it isn’t surprising. Replacing jet fuel with corn and soybeans doesn’t pencil out for the climate, so Congress wants to take away the government’s pencils. @yalee360.bsky.social
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The ‘Green’ Aviation Fuel That Would Increase Carbon Emissions
The U.S. agriculture lobby has long promoted ethanol for cars. If President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” becomes law, the industry would be given tax credits for producing crop-based fuel for planes, ...
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May 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I wrote about a scandal in the Big Beautiful Bill that should really be shocking even if it isn’t surprising. Replacing jet fuel with corn and soybeans doesn’t pencil out for the climate, so Congress wants to take away the government’s pencils. @yalee360.bsky.social
e360.yale.edu/features/cor...
e360.yale.edu/features/cor...
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Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.
They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.
France also gave us this land as American soil.
They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.
France also gave us this land as American soil.
May 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.
They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.
France also gave us this land as American soil.
They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.
France also gave us this land as American soil.
MC stands for "Master Class." I would definitely listen to her thoughts!
I put together some very initial thoughts on the four nuclear executive orders today. A lot of heavy lifting for LPO to do in there (10 AP1000s anyone?)
President Trump’s Nuclear Executive Orders: What Clients Should Know
The Orders cover a wide array of nuclear energy issues, from invoking the Defense Production Act to revitalize the nuclear fuel cycle to fast-tracking small modular reactor (SMR) deployment, with a st...
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May 24, 2025 at 1:45 AM
MC stands for "Master Class." I would definitely listen to her thoughts!
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DOE issues first order attempting to keep a coal plant online that was slated to retire. The JH Campbell plan in Michigan.
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www.energy.gov
May 23, 2025 at 11:41 PM
DOE issues first order attempting to keep a coal plant online that was slated to retire. The JH Campbell plan in Michigan.
www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...
www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...
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Highly doubtful that nuclear ITC phaseout for all post-2028 reactor starts will be sufficient to achieve industry liftoff, and it almost certainly kills most advanced reactor companies and the emerging US fusion industry.
May 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Highly doubtful that nuclear ITC phaseout for all post-2028 reactor starts will be sufficient to achieve industry liftoff, and it almost certainly kills most advanced reactor companies and the emerging US fusion industry.
What if big clean energy projects could earn the ITC while under construction?
What if this existed and nobody knew about it?
Qualified Progress Expenditures were added in the IRA and majorly benefit big projects like nuclear... if the credits survive.
More at: yardsale.energy/qualified-pr...
What if this existed and nobody knew about it?
Qualified Progress Expenditures were added in the IRA and majorly benefit big projects like nuclear... if the credits survive.
More at: yardsale.energy/qualified-pr...
May 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
What if big clean energy projects could earn the ITC while under construction?
What if this existed and nobody knew about it?
Qualified Progress Expenditures were added in the IRA and majorly benefit big projects like nuclear... if the credits survive.
More at: yardsale.energy/qualified-pr...
What if this existed and nobody knew about it?
Qualified Progress Expenditures were added in the IRA and majorly benefit big projects like nuclear... if the credits survive.
More at: yardsale.energy/qualified-pr...
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Capacity accreditation is deep and nerdy and super important. What happened last PJM auction cycle was an ironic shift: gas underperformed in winter storm Elliot, so PJM assigned much lower capacity values to gas - dropping from ~90% to %60%.
Now we had less capacity, so prices shot up
#EnergySky
Now we had less capacity, so prices shot up
#EnergySky
May 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Capacity accreditation is deep and nerdy and super important. What happened last PJM auction cycle was an ironic shift: gas underperformed in winter storm Elliot, so PJM assigned much lower capacity values to gas - dropping from ~90% to %60%.
Now we had less capacity, so prices shot up
#EnergySky
Now we had less capacity, so prices shot up
#EnergySky
Coupled with the existing FEOC and "material support" restrictions it seems like there are projects which are already under construction that now won't even qualify...
There is no new development that could make use of 48E on these terms. Any project that fits into the narrow window is either already under construction or is days away from starting.
May 22, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Coupled with the existing FEOC and "material support" restrictions it seems like there are projects which are already under construction that now won't even qualify...