Sitemap - 2024 - Volts

The energy transition's 5 supervillains and 5 superheroes

Making geothermal heat pumps work for big buildings

Rising electricity demand requires new gas plants? Not so fast.

Why "transferable" tax credits are such a big deal

What's going on with China these days?

Volts Community Thread #05

Fashion's climate impact and how to reduce it

How much can urban land use policy do for the climate?

How the EPA will spend $27 billion in carbon-reduction funds

Now is the time for distributed energy

Mailbag episode - March 2024

Biden sets out to supercharge industrial decarbonization

What's the deal with these methane satellites?

What's the deal with "scope 3" emissions?

Getting ready for IRA 2

How's IRA doing?

Volts Community Thread #04

Industrial policy: what it is, how Biden's doing it, and how it could be done better

The obscure but extremely important battle over building codes

Mailbag episode - February 2024

So you want to electrify your home

The transition to electric vehicles will be inevitable, not irreproachable

Important puppy update!

Nuclear? Perhaps!

The Democrats' new consensus bill would supercharge transmission

Volts Community Thread #03

The current state of unions in America

Another hot rocks company gets in the storage game

One easy way to boost the grid: upgrade the power lines

Mailbag episode - January 2024

Electrifying battery recycling

Volts Community Thread #02

Michigan targets clean electricity and faster permitting

Transitioning off of fossil gas in Australia

Send me questions for the mailbag!

The Chevron Doctrine: what it is and why it matters that the Supreme Court might kill it

A Connecticut reformer is shaking up utility regulation

Decarbonizing a sprawling university system