Next-gen geothermal energy shows increasing promise as a reliable, ready-to-use source of energy in the US — if the equipment supply chain can be built. Manufacturing expertise from the oil and gas industry, targeted policy, and better data can help: https://ow.ly/lVzs50YWaob

If next-generation geothermal power is to achieve liftoff and scale in the United States, we’ll need a whole lot more geothermal hardware, and we’ll need to harden that hardware for higher-temperature conditions. That’s an opportunity for new manufacturing, and the United States should seize it.

The future is embarrassing www.ft.com/content/657d...

1/9 Thread: Pleased to share publication of “Financing the Missing Middle: Mobilizing Investment to Scale Emerging Energy Technologies” by @cfr.org This essay collection offers insights on the #MissingMiddle challenge from several perspectives. www.cfr.org/reports/fina...

8/9 Regional collaborations involving all sectors could implement ED strategies that fill the missing middle. Read @aaronbrickman.bsky.social @benfeshbach.bsky.social & Whitney Mann @rockymtninst.bsky.social “Energy Technology Commercialization Can Power Regional Economic Strategy—and Vice Versa”

a lot of energy/climate policy events i've been to lately have stressed that states can pick up the slack for the federal government thanks to "federalism" and states being "laboratories of democracy" but i feel like this take crashes really hard against a bunch of states' balanced budget rules

Early inspiration for this fall's high-holiday-sermon bingo card.

I’m glad I no longer work in social-media rapid response. My thoughts are with everyone who’s forced to spend their evening waiting for the right moment to post someone else’s tepid takes.

Today on Volts: meat! Bruce Friedrich argues that a) the dire environmental & social impacts of meat cultivation are rising, but b) so is meat consumption, so the only solution is c) plant-based or cultivated meat. We talk about the state of the market, the tech, & the future possibilities.

Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.

The National Labs are part of the foundation of U.S. science and innovation. They should be strengthened, not gutted.

love all my fellow nerds but I'm using IRA here is a generic stand-in for a big policy swing, not a specific future approach necessarily focused on revenue and credits because of reconciliation. It was great btw, the next five will be much better.

Bad Bunny is telling the world that the people in Puerto Rico are American citizens and deserve reliable and resilient electricity and infrastructure investment from the U.S. government.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

Bezos fucked the paper and instead of fixing it he’s destroying it despite the fact that he could spend the money to make things right without even noticing its absence.

“The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone.” 🔥🔥🔥

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

Delightful.

2025 be 2025-ing!

This has such uncomfortable Holocaust vibes, and they should be ashamed of it. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

So much of what I read these days is slop devoid of soul. This @michael-thomas.bsky.social piece is a crisp, refreshing reprieve. Thanks @volts.wtf for amplifying it. I’m glad it hit my feed.

Good news out of Pennsylvania with Eos Energy announcing an expansion of their battery manufacturing and creation of 735 new jobs. #energysky www.pa.gov/governor/new...

This is wild.

I guess Neal Caffrey really is in Paris! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/w...

Possibly the day’s best sign

I’m so glad nothing happened in the Yankees-Red Sox game until after Yom Kippur ended. It was relieving to just turn on my phone and tune into 0-0.

New @rockymtninst.bsky.social article with my colleagues Ellie Garland and Meredith Cowart: What's next for advanced energy manufacturing in the United States in the wake of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA)? It's undeniable that the law creates new challenges for many manufacturers.

One thought on this entire year: It's sad if not totally shocking to see that for many folks in public life, their principles are—at best—merely preferences.

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

Motherfucking wind farms…

Analysis by @jayturner.bsky.social and his team at The Big Green Machine shows roughly the same thing as what I found around a month ago with Clean Economy Tracker data, but his team's sum is even larger: $31.3 billion.

Montgomery County will always feel like home to me, and more people should be able to afford to live in this wonderful community. I wish Marc Elrich felt the same way. wtop.com/montgomery-c...

ah yes those famously unreliable foreign controlled energy sources the wind and the sun

Today, the President will sign the OBBBA into law, repealing and and modifying many clean energy tax credits. Last night we finished updating our analysis of OBBBA at the state-level to see what this bill means for Americans. The results are ugly. Full dataset here: zenodo.org/records/1580...

We've surpassed $20 billion in cancelled cleantech manufacturing investment this year. Really sad stuff.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is one signature away from becoming law, and now the clean energy industry is asking itself: Where do we go from here? @zeitlin.bsky.social and @emilypont.bsky.social checked in and found that while the mood is not great, there are still policy solutions to be tried.

FIRST IN HEATMAP: Republican holdouts on the megabill are asking Trump to “deal” with IRA solar and wind credits beyond what the legislation would do, in exchange for a yes vote Raising specter of additional Trump action to choke off credits @heatmap.news h/t @ericmgarcia.bsky.social

Our grid can’t handle this blackout bill. Also, climate change

🎵there is a crack, a crack, in everything. That’s how the posts get in.

Could someone on #EnergySky with the right software please clip that Tillis speech?

“There isn’t going to be a gas fired generator any time soon,” Tillis said. “You can’t get that online and the same time that [renewable] pipeline’s going down.” First time GOP opposition over this made public in Senate debate on the reconciliation bill.

Sen Thom Tillis now on the Senate floor railing against the repeal of the ITC and PTC !!!

Republicans are now suddenly planning to TAX renewable energy, transforming the repeal of the IRA from a challenge to a full-blown crisis for American solar and wind. I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why. Please share! This is really important!!! @heatmap.news

This bill is economic self-immolation.