‘Anecdotal evidence’ that CBAM is spurring carbon pricing initiatives worldwide, EU official says - Carbon Pulse carbon-pulse.com/277897

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The American EV market has a big Tesla problem.

We talk to Corey Cantor🌕, analyst at BNEF, about slumping sales in Q1, about whether we’re hitting a ceiling on consumer demand for EVs, and about whether hybrids/PHEVs could work with a net-zero strategy.

Important piece on generating research useful to policymakers. What was useful to us in the White House on climate & energy econ & policy was cogent open access peer-reviewed research in high-quality journals w/quantified ranges of monetized impacts & emissions, w/ good titles.

If folks wonder why the GenX Model team use The Julia Language (not Python), here's a good hint: julialang.org/benchmarks/
GenX is currently the only fully-featured open-source electricity system planning model built in Julia+JuMP genxproject.github.io/GenX.jl/

The term 'hard to decarbonize' has the same problem as 'alternative energy'. It prejudices thinking and quickly becomes outdated.

'Today I wouldn't get an academic job. It's as simple as that. I don't think I would be regarded as productive enough.'

Nobel Laureate Peter Higgs explains how the focus on quantified indicators (number of publications, citations) harms scientific progress.

Happy eclipse fellow umbraphiles!

Alright #EnergyTwitter and #TRBAM Twitter: maybe you wanted to get involved with the energy transition at the Federal level, but didn't know where to look. Well, here's your chance to work with an amazing leadership team and have a big impact on transportation electrification ⬇️

Renewable hydrogen projects are struggling as “the risk profile of power purchase agreements are killing investment decisions.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Renewable investment tax credits may cost less than believed, because renewables provide risk-mitigation benefits that we rarely think about.

An excellent critique of effective altruism and with the “earning-to-give” strategy epitomized by Sam Bankman-Fried. wired.com/story/deaths-o…

A dataset of 2.4 mill. Norwegian households shows inequities in #ElectricVehicle adoption.

More than 50% of BEV-owning households had 3 or more BEVs in 2022, “indicating an unbalanced ownership distribution concentrating on the wealthiest” Davood Qorbani nature.com/articles/s4324…

I'm looking for a job from 04/24 onward, Berlin or remote.
I worked on IT-project management, data engineering and machine learning for reinforcement learning until now, but am quite open-ended rn.
If you think I could be your data wizard, contact me - looking forward to it!

An uncanny description of academia’s focus on the number of publications/citations.

'There’s a massive imbalance between the limited number of parties on the purchasing side [of long-term contracts] and the huge number of developers on the other side'

A big issue w/ current markets being raised by Brett Christophers, via Aaron Clark bloomberg.com/news/articles/…