Me when the press release says a company is going “100% renewable energy” but it’s just unbundled RECs.

🔋GRA calls on #EU policymakers to recognise #PPAs for reducing the #CarbonFootprint of electricity used in battery manufacturing, together with Cefic, EnergyTag, Eurelectric, smartEn - Smart Energy Europe, SolarPower Europe, & Wind in Europe, among others. euronews.com/green/2024/07/…

How a company cleans up its emissions is more important than how fast, which is why some experts are advocating a new approach that moves beyond net-zero goals. technologyreview.com/2024/07/17/109…

Renewable certificates are often unbundled from renewable electricity. This is a really important problem, highlighted brilliantly by the FT:

“The basic fact is you can be solar powered all night long with today’s accounting, and that’s absurd" -A superbly well reported piece by FT on the grand debate amongst the biggest tech companies on how to account for electricity purchases & emissions ⤵️ ft.com/content/2d6fc3…

My team Google leads long-term modeling for our 24/7 carbon-free energy and related goals, and the team is growing. Folks with experience in modeling & technoeconomics in the energy sector, check it out! linkedin.com/jobs/view/3994…

Excited to share Google’s new deal to purchase carbon removal credits from Holocene, at the lowest price on record for direct air capture (DAC). Learn more 👇 blog.google/outreach-initi…

Excellent piece.

It was a privilege to join the International Energy Agency and EPRI week at their annual electricity #decarbonization workshop. I shared some thoughts about 24/7 carbon-free energy as a new paradigm for reliable clean #electricity transitions. My article here has more: linkedin.com/posts/devonswe…

This is great news. A clear example of AI demand spurring additional clean energy capacity. We need a national framework to reward and encourage this kind of investment at scale. nytimes.com/2024/09/20/cli…

This is amazing. Kudos Microsoft and Constellation ! 👏👏👏

Love this from the Climate Group, launched yesterday.. theclimategroup.org/247-coalition-…

Huge move from Google. It’s one thing to reopen old plants, quite another to commit to new build of advanced non-LWR SMR. A big boost to the future of nuclear. wsj.com/business/energ…

1/ Today, Google signed the world’s first corporate agreement to purchase clean nuclear energy from a series of small modular reactors (SMRs), to be developed by Kairos Power - our first-ever advanced nuclear deal. ⚛ Our blog: blog.google/outreach-initi…

Today, Google signed the world’s first corporate agreement to purchase nuclear energy from a series of small modular reactors, to be developed by Kairos Power. Learn how this will help bring new 24/7 clean power to the US electricity system. Read more from my colleague Michael⬇️

Google continues to use its purchasing power to create early market pull to help commercialize advanced clean firm power technologies. Google has agreed to buy 500 MW from Kairos Power, helping Kairos finance not just their first demo but the first 6-8 reactors. This follows

Great interview on how nuclear and other firm clean energy technologies can help achieve 24/7 carbon-free power even as we rapidly scale solar, wind, and storage.

Hey all - after more 14 years, I am leaving Twitter. It's been real...f*ing terrible lately. You can find me on Bluesky under my full name (Devon Swezey) or at the link below. Hope to continue interacting with many of you good people over there! bsky.app/profile/devons…