Jesse D. Jenkins
Macro-energy systems engineering, optimization & policy. Assistant professor at Princeton University. Leads the ZERO Lab. Co-hosts SHIFT KEY podcast. Time100 Next & TIME100 Climate honoree. More at linkedin.com/in/jessedjenkins & zero.lab.princeton.edu
- Very timely: new Q1 2025 Clean Investment Monitor out today www.cleaninvestmentmonitor.org/reports/q1-2... Shows a cool half a trillion dollars in announced projects and more than 100,000 jobs across 2,217 facilities currently threatened by potential IRA repeal.
- Make no mistake: the House budget bill, as currently written, is effectively a full repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act clean energy measures. This renders all IRA tax credits as-good-as-dead. Goodbye nuclear industry. Goodbye US manufacturing investments. Hello higher energy prices.
- The fight over the future of the Inflation Reduction Act is here. This week on a special SHIFT KEY, we guide you through the budget reconciliation process & break down the biggest provisions in the House budget bill with former Senate & Treasury advisor Luke Bassett heatmap.news/podcast/shif... 🔌💡
- The fight over the future of the Inflation Reduction Act is here. This week on a special SHIFT KEY, we guide you through the budget reconciliation process & break down the biggest provisions in the House budget bill with former Senate & Treasury advisor Luke Bassett heatmap.news/podcast/shif... 🔌💡
- Good summary ⤵️ A couple friendly amendments 1. Clean electricity/storage tax credit deadlines are changed from commence construction (with 4 year safe harbor) to placed in service. Huge reduction in timeline & big increase in risk for project developers. (Say good bye advanced nuclear industry) 🔌💡
- The House Republican's budget bill is starting to drop. It extends trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy while effectively crippling US manufacturing & energy industries and raising energy costs. It's effectively full repeal of the IRA. Here's tax portion waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/u... 🔌💡
- Ontario greenlit construction of what will be the first small modular reactors to be completed in North America. The first of four 300 MW GE-Hitachi BWRX reactors should be finished by 2029, but at a cost of >US$18/W for Unit #1 falling to ~US$9.6/W for #4. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... 🔌💡
