James Hewett
@JamesHewettDC
@Breakthrough Power Sector Policy; My Views: Transmission is Beautiful & Bang Screw.
We need to "build more high-voltage transmission lines that can carry electricity long distances, and use those transmission lines to better connect regions and communities to one another." Check out the latest GatesNotes from @Breakthrough founder: gatesnotes.com/Energy/Transmi…
I'm back and with a promotion to Carbon Upper Middle Management I'll be running the Carbon Management Research Initiative at @ColumbiaUEnergy as a Global Fellow Thank you @JasonBordoff and team for bringing me on
.@AndreasenJack joins CGEP's Carbon Management Research Initiative after leading carbon management policy at @Breakthrough and serving on the White House CCUS Task Force.
In the @nytimes today. Era of bipartisan clean firm.
I think the real energy policy issue we should be discussing rn is the Jones Act..
This is my quant... @ddpaolella talking about the new @Breakthrough GRIDS initiative to help speed up grid modeling and get study times down to weeks not months or years. Thanks @gurobi for having us in Berlin!
HOT NEW DRILLING RESULTS: ⏬ 15,765 feet 🔥 520°F ⏱️ 16 days @fervoenergy keeps proving the power of deployment-led innovation in EGS. linkedin.com/posts/timlatim…
Whether we want EGS, new nukes, and LDES to deploy at GW-scale this decade to meet AI demand or next decade while ceding global leadership is what is at stake in Congress right now. Was luck enough to visit @fervoenergy site in UT, and it’s truly impressive. Here’s how it works:
The growth rate of a Bill Gates-backed geothermal project partly hinges on whether Republicans can salvage billions of dollars in clean-energy tax credits on.wsj.com/43qd20K
Kudos to Texas Legislature for passing an energy abundance agenda while sidelining populist anti-electron bills that had momentum. Passed: large load management, nuclear fund, energy waste reduction Failed: firming requirements, 50% gas gen mandate, wind/solar permitting hurdles
There is no change to tax incentives for oil & gas, just EV/solar
There is no change to tax incentives for oil & gas, just EV/solar
"Will DAC cross the chasm from pilot facilities to meaningful deployment? Or fall off the hype wagon into the dustbin of cool ideas that were always 10 years away?" DAC doesn't work too well yet. That doesn't make it a scam, @AndreasenJack argues: heatmap.news/ideas/climewor…
We fully support the administration’s goal of ushering in a nuclear renaissance. But the proposed reconciliation package from the House would make that goal impossible. New from me and @ppavnr in the Post: 🧵
my brother in Christ, draped up and dripped out in the bang screwbaru… know what I’m talking bout?
in Jesus name, amen
"don't blame renewables, blame management of renewables" is actually a reasonable take. A highly interconnected grid has a lot of failure modes and we learned this the hard way as we were building the grid in the 1900s. We learned with big generators how to avoid them. We need to…
Two days ago, Spain lost 55% of its power, most from solar Perception: Everyone wants to blame anything but renewables Reality: With renewables, the grid gets vulnerable (missing inertia, mainly from fossil fuels) so we need more costly renewable management So Reuters…
before anyone starts blaming [insert fav reason] for the Iberian blackout, I’d like to point out that the US usually has double the number of annual blackout hours compared to other high-income countries…
Confirmed Electricity is down in entire Portugal and Spain peninsula! Crazy!
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Transmission is the WHOLE ball game. 1 big thing: A power titan calls transmission key to Trump's agenda axios.com/newsletters/ax…
New in @techreview: We need smart, targeted tariffs—not blunt trade wars—to win the race for energy dominance. Let’s put America’s workforce to work building batteries and heat pumps, not toasters. My latest: technologyreview.com/2025/04/17/111… #manufacturing #tariffs #energyinnovation