Ben Eidelson
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Just trying to be helpful. Climate Papa. Stepchange Founder & GP. Ex-Stripe, Ex-Google product person. Recovering founder.
Seattle
Joined January 2009
The greatest energy story never told: It's time for Part II of our coal saga. We track how a humble rock became humanity's most consequential fuel—and why breaking up with it is so damn hard.
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RT @energysmartwv: Reddy Kilowatt!!. Just found this stuff at an auction, it’s such good marketing: . Be modern, cook electrically . Beat….
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The modern version of the Times Square guy yelling I've got a ROLEX! 50% OFF!
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Meanwhile, in Texas….
New data on solar, wind, and battery deployment just came out. Let's check in on the race between California and Texas to build clean energy.
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RT @kyeburchard: Fully agree with @patrickc and @mntruell here (32:40) — even the best LLMs end up writing flat, generic prose. We're build….
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RT @natpmanning: "LGND wants to make ChatGPT for the Earth" - great piece by @tdech in @TechCrunch on LGND AI, Inc. launch and $9m Seed ro….
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Meanwhile….
Some shocking, amazing, insane data. In just one month—May—China added 93 GW of solar power. That’s more than the entire electrical capacity of Mexico (83 GW). A country with a population of 132 million people. This is what exponential infrastructure looks like. Energy is the
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RT @ShanuMathew93: .@ember_energy nails it. Always impressed with this team's output and that it's free!. The energy transition involves tw….
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RT @JesseJenkins: It is far from the worse thing in the Senate's One Big Horrible Bill, but the fact that it tucks away a subsidy worth 2.5….
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RT @curious_founder: Right now the Senate is debating a bill that would increase electricity prices in every state. If this bill passes,….
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Good to see @elonmusk highlighting the likes of @JesseJenkins and @curious_founder. If more people listened to them we wouldn’t have the stupidity of the OBBB.
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Read the full letter here: Thanks to all the fellow travelers and peers who’ve joined in telling the world we are serious.
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Markets are fragile. Signals matter. If we pull back now—mid-deployment, mid-build—we don’t just pause progress. We send a message: that we’re not serious. The letter we signed isn’t a protest. It’s a reminder: policy creates markets. And if we want an energy system that meets.
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The consequences?. Fewer jobs. Higher energy costs. A smaller grid. Slower innovation. All while demand for electricity is growing faster than it has in decades.
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Each of those depends on energy. Cheap, abundant, resilient energy—not as an outcome, but as the substrate. And yet, Congress is considering tax code changes that would gut the very policies accelerating that future.
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Because the stakes are higher than they look on paper. This is about more than tax credits. It’s about whether the U.S. wants to lead in the 21st century—or watch others define it. We’re in the early innings of three simultaneous races:.- to decarbonize.- to reindustrialize.-.
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This week, we joined over 80 other energy investors in signing an open letter urging Congress to do better. At Stepchange, we spend our time looking for inflection points—where better infrastructure, smarter software, and clearer policy can move the arc of history. Lately,
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