DAC developers who make it to FID for facilities >500,000 tons/year are going to struggle to access clean energy at that scale, unless they start planning now. A lot of competition for clean electrons. If they pivot to just using grid power ~20-50% of the CO2 benefit is gone

What are the #climate stakes of the #2024Elections? How many gigatons of CO2 are at stake? On Shift Key, we get quantitative w/Energy Innovation Policy & Technology LLC®'s sonia aggarwal to unpack how far we've come, how far we still need to go, and how bad #Project2025 would be. Today, wherever you get

Always good to keep this in mind. Our common maps lie and have probably permanently messed up our sense of geographic scale...

So excited for this — THE FIGHT, Heatmap’s new premium newsletter led by Jael Holzman, will dive into the effort to build new zero-carbon energy and what’s standing in its way nationwide. Interviews, investigations, tips. This is the next stage of Heatmap’s climate journalism.

The UAW said Wednesday that a battery manufacturing joint venture between General Motors and LG Energy Solutions has agreed to recognize the union at a Tennessee plant producing Ultium batteries for GM EVs. freep.com/story/money/ca…

Remarkable chart from BloombergNEF's EV Outlook: EVs are covering significantly more ground on average than combustion vehicles in almost every country. The US is a notable exception for now.

The paper describing the revamped CICERO Simple Climate Model (SCM) is now published: a new open-source version in Python as opposed to closed-source in Fortran. Feel free to use and contribute! gmd.copernicus.org/articles/17/65…

.President Biden "will unveil $7.3 billion in grants for the clean energy transition in rural America during a trip to Wisconsin today, in what administration officials called the largest investment in rural electrification since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal." semafor.com/newsletter/09/…

.The Associated Press: President Biden will "make good on his promise to provide new investments in rural electrification" The Biden-Harris IRA invests "roughly $13 billion in rural electrification...and will create 4,500 permanent jobs and 16,000 construction jobs" apnews.com/article/wiscon…

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Changing the EV tax credit to allow for a point of sale rebate was an underrated policy change in the IRA - even though the max credit didn't change. Easier for consumers to use the credit right away than wait for tax time 👇

USDA is announcing the first set of awards to support rural electric co-ops transition to clean energy. $7.3 billion to 16 co-ops, leveraging over $29 billion in co-op and private capital for clean energy investments. usda.gov/media/press-re…

Major news for NEPA reform! 🚨🚨 Chair Westerman’s discussion draft is out! This is important because the Manchin-Barrasso permitting bill did not address NEPA and this draft may become the basis for House-led bipartisan NEPA reform. 🧵 on what’s in the bill: (1/18)

That's a lot of money... Another huge investment in America from the Inflation Reduction Act.