🔌💡 Google's Clean Transition Tariff w/ NV Energy has been approved by the Nevada PUC. This paves the way for a new next-gen geothermal project to be deployed by 2030, and serves as a model for other utilities and energy customers to advance decarbonization across the US: blog.google/feed/nevada-...

🔌💡Today, Google announced the first corporate geothermal energy deal in Taiwan. These first projects will add 10 MW of geothermal energy to the grid - nearly doubling its current installed geothermal capacity - and help catalyze the geothermal market across APAC. More: blog.google/around-the-g...

Great summary on the role of procurement in commercializing new technology from @jessedjenkins.com, @devonswezey.bsky.social and others. Also I’m glad the photo of Fervo’s drilling operations has become the de facto visual for 24/7 carbon free energy! www.latitudemedia.com/news/how-24-...

24/7 clean procurement catalyses learning for long-duration energy storage and clean dispatchable power - new op-ed in @latitudemedia.bsky.social! 🔌💡 www.latitudemedia.com/news/how-24-...

1/ 🚨New study alert!🚨 🔌💡 My DukeU colleagues and I just released a 1st-of-kind study on how the US grid could integrate up to 100 gigawatts of data centers w/out major new infrastructure, provided modest load flexibility (0.5%/yr). AI load growth can be managed faster, cheaper, & cleaner. 🧵👇

Today Google shared that we’ve contracted more than $100M in carbon removal credits in 2024 to help catalyze solutions that can remove CO2 from the atmosphere at scale and help maximize their impact on the planet. 🔌💡 Learn more: blog.google/outreach-ini...

🔌💡 Google released a novel study on the lifecycle emissions of AI accelerator chips, showing a 3x improvement in the carbon-efficiency of AI workloads over two generations. We also report average market-based electricity emissions calculated on a 24/7 basis. More: cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

With government support uncertain, how can we catalyse investment in the new energy technologies we need? 🔌 💡 One option: companies committing to 24/7 carbon-free power (CFE), who don't just reduce their own emissions, but trigger technology learning and emissions reductions in the wider system. 🧵

Excited to contribute to this commentary, which describes how even a relatively small number of companies targeting 24/7 #cleanenergy procurement can have outsized #decarbonization impact by accelerating learning and cost reductions in advanced CFE technologies, speeding their wider adoption. 🔌💡

Excited to share @Google’s new partnership with carbon removal companies Varaha and Charm Industrial to remove 200,000 tons of carbon from the atmosphere via biochar and bring us closer to a net zero future. Learn more: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Energy & climate researchers, want a little hope on policy impact? Wilson, Qingyu, and Jesse had deep policy impact with their work on hydrogen. How? 🔌💡 1. Timely, peer-reviewed work in a respected journal 2. Open access & free to read 3. Once published, talk about it publicly in an accessible way

Such a huge win for the climate, and also for developing for advancing the technologies, tools and contracting structures that will enable 24/7 carbon-free electricity for everyone. Congrats and kudos to all the public servants and advocates that fought for this outcome. 🔌💡

Policy is key. No Green H₂ without it. It's why today's 45v tax rules are so important. For a deep dive into Green H₂: business.columbia.edu/insights/cli... For a good early read on today's 45v policy details, via @heatmap.news's @emilypont.bsky.social: heatmap.news/climate/fina...

It's the moment you've been waiting for... a new 2,000 words (ok its a bit more) from me on the 45V hydrogen tax credit. Except this time we have final rules! "3 Pillars" are still in...sort of. Path for existing nuclear, w/ 200 mw cap per reactor. More details inside ⤵️ heatmap.news/climate/fina...

2024 was a big year for Google's efforts to progress toward 24/7 carbon-free energy. Our new blog describes 6 unique ways that Google worked advanced the transaction, regulatory, and technological innovations needed to accelerate electricity decarbonization: blog.google/outreach-ini... #energysky

Nice message from @offgridian.bsky.social in this NYT story on Trump's new energy secretary

Today, Google published our procurement principles and criteria for a wide array of advanced clean electricity technologies needed to fully decarbonize electricity grids. Learn more on pg. 25 of our 2023 white paper (and attached 1-pager): sustainability.google/reports/acce... 🔌💡

NEW: Big tech firms and the nuclear power industry think they can solve each other's problems. But can they? I dug into budding love affair between AI and nuclear, and here's what I found... (+ lil 🧵 here) www.npr.org/2024/12/09/n...

Excited to share Google's new partnership with startup Terradot to accelerate help catalyze and scale their enhanced rock weathering approach for carbon removal. Learn more here: blog.google/outreach-ini... 🔌💡

Granular energy procurement tools are critical to a carbon-free transition. Today LevelTen Energy launched the Registry Accelerator Fund to help registries modernize their software to support hourly, local energy tracking. Learn more and check out the RFP: www.leveltenenergy.com/registry-acc... 🔌💡

When you have a goal to supply your operations with 24/7 carbon-free energy, it requires you to think about partnerships and portfolios of technologies that can provide clean electricity around the clock. #energysky

Indeed, here is what Meta's spokesperson told RTO Insider... "Meta’s 100% clean energy commitment uses methodologies from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. Annually, Meta matches its electricity use with 100% clean and renewable energy on an annual basis based on megawatt-hours,"

🔌💡A new Aurora study finds that “local matching” of GOs to electricity demand in Europe would significantly boost revenues to wind and solar projects by 18 billion EUR by 2030 (1/) www.auroraer.com/insight/100-local-an-analysis-of-local-matching-in-the-european-guarantees-of-origin-market/ (1/)

We're so proud of Dr. Ricks! Our first ZERO Lab doctorate. And an outstanding set of research on the potential of enhanced geothermal energy and rules to guide clean electricity procurement by hydrogen producers, data centers are more. See below for links to @wilsonar.bsky.social's excellent work...

An new report released today by BNEF, in collaboration with the Global Renewables Alliance, examines the opportunity for 24/7 #Carbonfree #Energy procurement to accelerate the #clean energy transition in the Asia Pacific region: globalrenewablesalliance.org/news/24-7-ca... #energysky

Past/ongoing: EVs Future: maybe electrification of industrial heat Other thoughts #energysky?

Very interesting new research on 24/7 #carbon-free #electricity procurement. What happens if you don't have access to your hourly electricity demand data, and need to use a proxy instead? Turns out, the positive impacts of 24/7 procurement are relatively consistent even when using approximations 🔌💡

What if you want to procure clean electricity to meet your demand, hour-by-hour, but you don't know precisely what your demand profile is? Can it still work? A new Princeton University ZERO Lab report on 24/7 carbon-free electricityu procurment led by @wilsonar.bsky.social finds out... 🔌💡

Super interesting visualizations that may be of interest to #energysky. And if you aren't following Killian yet I highly recommend!

💡🔌What is the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Scope 2 Guidance? Why is it being updated for the first time in a decade? And what are the implications for the nuclear power industry? I'm speaking alongside Katie Ott (Constellation) about the updates and what they could mean: www.youtube.com/@NZNGlobal/l...

🔌💡Tomorrow I'll be joining experts to talk about 24/7 Carbon-free Energy. In September, the Climate Group launced the 24/7 Carbon-free Coalition, a group of companies working toward local and hourly power decarbonization. Check out the webinar for more info! www.theclimategroup.org/247-webinar-3

Enhanced geothermal isn't so dark of a horse anymore. Great writeup on the state and promise of the technology from Nature (www.nature.com/articles/d41...), including references to our recent paper on the long-run value of flexible geothermal power in Nature Energy www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Surprising how bad putative climate leader California is on this issue of low-carbon fuel standards.

My first post on Bluesky is to share that Project InnerSpace has expanded the GeoMap tool to India, helping reveal untapped #geothermal potential across the country. Google is thrilled to support the GeoMap tool and help advance geothermal development globally. Check it out here: lnkd.in/euvbz_rv