Welcome to Climate 101, Heatmap's primer on the key technologies of the energy transition — from lithium-ion batteries to solar panels to geothermal. Here's the full rundown 🧵 heatmap.news/climate-101

perhaps soon, going solar need not involve tens of thousands of dollars and an onslaught of logistics. here's how small, simple, plug-in solar arrays - and the laws to support them - are beginning to gain traction in the U.S. heatmap.news/energy/plug-in…

the big question in energy is affordability, can climate advocates convince the public that they care about rising prices and have the solutions to lower them?

I made a timeline of everything the Trump admin has done to try to kill U.S. offshore wind. Pretty much every action was explicitly requested by anti-offshore wind groups in a memo to the Trump transition team in Jan, as reported by jael holzman. heatmap.news/politics/trump…

If you want to understand utility regulatory policy and the economics of why our damn electric bills are so damn high - listening to this this is a pretty damn good way to do it!

Late-breaking news: The Trump administration’s attempt to kill an important EPA climate database may gut the carbon capture tax credit. heatmap.news/energy/epa-gre…

Electricity prices are rising twice as fast as inflation. Who do Americans blame for it? It isn’t Trump — not yet, at least. According to our new Heatmap Pro polling, nearly half of RVs say that rising demand, their utility, and their state government bear “a lot” of the blame.

the renewables industry has a lot to gain from cheaper financing, but they may have bigger issues to deal with right now heatmap.news/economy/fed-ra…

Utilities serve everyone in a territory because with more users they can split up fixed costs among a wider base and use that base to make a guaranteed return on infrastructure to serve them. But what happens when data centers strain our grids?

Only in Heatmap News can you get Matthew Zeitlin explaining why electricity markets as they exist may no longer be fit for purpose, and how we can look to industries that regulate scarce resources, like water, for reforms. heatmap.news/energy/electri…

NEW from Robinson Meyer: House Democrats Sean Casten and Rep. Mike Levin just introduced a new package of proposals aimed at tackling rising electricity prices. heatmap.news/politics/energ…

somehow hadn’t seen an Impulse stove til now. so sick to have them at our Heatmap House event today in union square.

There's a great case for climate investing, but can you bank it? heatmap.news/climate-tech/h…

Can Democrats really become the party of cheap energy? Live at NYC Climate Week, I spoke with Sean Casten about his new “Cheap Energy Act,” how he thinks utilities could work better for consumers, and whether the US should ever export more natural gas: heatmap.news/podcast/shift-…

If you missed Heatmap House at Climate Week (or the livestream of it), here's a quick recap of highlights: heatmap.news/climate/heatma…

Happy Shift Key day, Jesse D. Jenkins Robinson Meyer Heatmap News

This was such a fun Shift Key. We had our first ever Heatmap reporter roundtable with Matthew Zeitlin, Jillian Goodman, Emily Pontecorvo, and we talked about (1) electricity inflation, (2) the new Dem energy affordability politics, and (3) Paul Wellstone, NIMBY. shows.acast.com/65bac3af03341c…

Really good episode. Be sure to listen!

Other news outlets are repeating the Trump administration's narrative that DOE cancelled grants in blue states. Well, that's not really true. Here's my analysis of the list: heatmap.news/politics/doe-c…

With all this talk about electricity price increases, I wonder if utilities will bring back Reddy Kilowatt to make the rate increases an easier pill to swallow (that's one way he was used in the first half of the 20th century) More via Heatmap News : heatmap.news/culture/reddy-…