Jan 30, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
One of the most distressing aspects of today’s politics is the way it has reduced the willingness of people to come together in an emergency or disaster. Even as the wildfires in Los Angeles continued to devastate people and whole communities, some congressional some...
Jan 20, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
One source of frustration for the climate coalition – and the ideological left more generally – is the amount of money and coordinated effort that the ideological right has put into political and ideological persuasion over the last four decades. Chapter 4 of my book...
Jan 10, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
This month’s energy transition worries focus on AI servers and what energy sources will power them, the details of subsidizing clean hydrogen production, and how much damage the Trump Administration will do to the energy transition. In the heat of policy or...
Dec 20, 2024 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking
[Part 1 of this post is here.] This will be the last blog post for 2024, so here’s a gift suggestion for the holidays. Consider helping someone you love develop a greater appreciation for “option value” as a public good. It sounds complicated and...
Dec 15, 2024 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking
Because affordable, reliable electric service is an essential element of our lives, voters tend to worry about it, and to react strongly to the risk of its loss. The provision of energy services over a centralized network of transmission lines is a collective service,...
Nov 20, 2024 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking
I have learned that there is one sentence in Climate of Contempt that, more than any other, seems to grate on the the ears of some in the climate coalition. It is found on page 166: “[O]ur economy’s deep reliance on petroleum products is due less to that industry’s...
