A sleeper political issue of the next few years is the rising costs of electricity. AI & data centers are driving up demand & the Trump Administration is making it harder to add clean energy supply. I joined @chrislhayes on #WITHpod to talk about it:

Also, when we enable more mobility to economic, education, & leisure opportunities by public transit & active transport, we reduce the risks to consumers & businesses during an oil price spike. As an important bonus, diversifying transport energy cleans & the air & cuts GHGs. Thx

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The price of oil is set globally, & the high concentration of oil powering US transport puts us at risk during a price spike no matter how much oil we produce. Since we use almost no oil to make electricity, when we power transport by clean electricity, we reduce these risks.

Turned my tweets about what should go into the next Inflation Reduction Act into slides for my Energy Week keynote @CMUenergy part 2:

Here’s a thread about transformers and some info on the Defense Production Act. Title VII of the DPA can be used to enable agreements and understand the industrial base. Although supply crunch is severe so Title I and Title III should be considered and funded.

Turned my tweets on needs for the Inflation Reduction Act 2 into slides for my @CMUenergy keynote at CMU Energy Week.

Everyone should have the opportunity for safe biking/ebiking/walking/rolling. In the next IRA for climate policy, we need: - e-bike rebates available for all, when you buy the bike - cash & mobility for clunkers - green & protected infrastructure - accessible transit stations

And just like the IRA and the BIL are the largest investments in carbon pollution mitigation in history, they are also the largest investment in climate resilience in history. We need more of both, for the rest of our lives. We can do it & it will make people’s lives better.

And By The Way: did you know the White House released a National Climate Resilience Framework last year? It's good. We need IRA2. We also need a Bipartisan Infrastructure Law 2 for climate resilience. Nature-based. Engineering-based. People-based. Based.

Why should one of the next climate bills be named the DieWorkWear Act? Because when we talk about “opportunities for everyone to have safe and affordable housing in places where they have employment and leisure opportunities — that's a climate policy”

This loss is a shock to all of us. Jerry was on several dissertation committees of current students I work with, and was providing great advice on Friday. He came to a talk I gave last week and followed up with an email saying good job. He showed up and he cared. Be like that.

Jerry shaped CMU into the leader it us today. When he stepped down as President, he could have done anything he wanted. He returned to our depts & taught undergrad classes on water & systems—and was great at it. He also devoted his time mentoring early career researchers like me.

Connect and manage, with aligned incentives from all parties. Pretty clear current process will not deliver electrification fast enough, and will hurt consumers. In the Inflation Reduction Act 2, need to recognize we’re trying to build a national highway system for transmission.

Since the start of the Biden Administration, more than $369 billion in private sector clean investments have been announced, including $161 B in EVs & battery manufacturing $133 B in clean power plants $75 B in clean energy manufacturing Map here:

Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will double the amount of emissions reductions and clean electricity generation we have by 2030. Let me say it again: double. Still more to do, but a lot of climate action that we wanted to do forever, got done 👇

Thanks to these policies, clean electricity is projected to increase from 43% of power generation in 2022 to up to 80% in 2030. Seems good! Is good.

Thanks to these climate policies, US greenhouse gas emissions are projected to decrease to 33-41% below 2005 levels in 2030. This is a near doubling in emissions reductions compared to what was projected before these policies. BIL and IRA alone doubled our emissions reductions

This is just another one of the dozens of climate policy ideas that we in the climate policy community were saying that somebody should do over the last 2+ decades. With the President's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law & Inflation Reduction Act, they got done

Here's my theory of change: for decades we in the climate community had a bunch of ideas that should get done. Then, the Biden-Harris Administration did a lot of those things. So we should celebrate those wins & connect those dots, & build space for #IRA2.

We can do big things.