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
- Let's be real: if Republicans pass the House budget bill as is, it will murder the US nuclear industry, ruin our chances of winning the AI race (by constraining power supply), concede the global auto sector to China, and vaporize about half a trillion dollars of US manufacturing investment...
- #Upshift - Analysis by @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social @carbonbrief.org finds clean energy growth just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time, with national emissions down 1% over last 12 months despite strong power sector growth. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-cle... 🔌💡
- Come for the guide to how partisan budget reconciliation process works. Stay for the live interpretive prose reading of House Republican's draft legislation repealing nearly all of the Inflation Reduction Act clean energy programs... 🔌💡
- 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... 🔌💡
- 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... 🔌💡
