Thanks to everyone who reached out to ask about my next professional chapter in response to today’s article Update: I’m heading west and will be publicly sharing details on my new role just before Halloween 🎃 🤐 www.ft.com/content/b2a3...

Dr. Melissa Lott@mclott.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 Professional News 🚨 Friday marked my last day at Columbia University. The past 5 years have been transformational for me, full of impact & major milestones. Reflections on the past 5 years + a preview of my next professional chapter 👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/meliss...

🚨 Professional News 🚨 Friday marked my last day at Columbia University. The past 5 years have been transformational for me, full of impact & major milestones. Reflections on the past 5 years + a preview of my next professional chapter 👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/meliss...

Melissa C. Lott, PhD on LinkedIn: ❗❗ 📰 Transitions and Exciting Professional News 📰 ❗❗ The past 5 years… | 51 comments

❗❗ 📰 Transitions and Exciting Professional News 📰 ❗❗ The past 5 years Columbia University have been transformational for me, full of impact and major… | 51 comments on LinkedIn

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Sales of heat pump water heaters surged in 2023 in the USA (hello Inflation Reduction Act??), and gas heaters continue to lose market share cleantechnica.com/2024/09/24/s... 🔌💡

Soaring Sales for Heat Pump Water Heaters in 2023. Let the Party Begin! - CleanTechnica

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Heat pump water heater sales saw their largest increase ever in 2023, according to the latest data released by ...

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🚨 New SHIFT KEY episode just dropped 🚨 This week, @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social and @jessejenkins.bsky.social bring you a user’s guide to new green banks, with help from the EPA's Jahi Wise and Elemental Impact's Dawn Lippert. Listen below, or wherever you get your podcasts.

The Hardest Working $27 Billion in the IRA

Inside season 2, episode 7 of Shift Key.

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"The U.S. solar manufacturing boom could be big enough to allow the country to soon become a net exporter of solar panels for the first time in decades." www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol... via Eric Wesoff

US solar manufacturing capacity has quadrupled thanks to climate law

The Inflation Reduction Act has sparked a boom in domestic solar panel manufacturing, though the U.S. still depends on China for certain steps of the supply chain.

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Just discovered these extended clips from Chasing Carbon Zero on PBS NOVA. Fun memories recording this with Miles O’Brien and the whole NOVA team + our team at Columbia including Natalie Volk and Jen Wu. #netzero #energytransition youtu.be/x-oFuAgnzkk?...

"Chasing Carbon Zero" Extended Interview with Melissa Lott - NOVA | PBS

YouTube video by NOVA PBS Official

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US EIA: Combined US sales of hybrid vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and battery electric vehicles increased from 17.8% of total new light-duty vehicle sales in 1Q 2024 to 18.7% in 2Q 2024, according to estimates from Wards Intelligence: www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

Good deep dive into the state of local permitting barriers and what states can do to address them 🔌💡: www.utilitydive.com/news/states-...

Carrots, sticks or both: State efforts to combat anti-renewables NIMBYs

In pursuit of zero-emissions electricity goals and tax windfalls from utility-scale renewables, states are taking a range of approaches to disarm opponents.

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Some nice copy here …apparently California now has batteries roughly equivalent to 5 Diablo Canyons (in capacity, not run time…)

Justin Mikulka@justinmikulka.bsky.social · 2y ago

"No rolling blackouts or grid emergencies as California continues on path to a carbon free grid. Several strategies, including upgrades to vulnerable parts of the grid at play here, but key enabler is more clean energy, especially solar, and above all, battery storage..." 😀

“The increasing number of days with above-average temperatures means that the lack of air-conditioning can be a matter of life and death,” said Sheila Foster, a professor at the Columbia Climate School. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/n...

New York City Tenants Are Entitled to Heat. What About Air-Conditioning?

Landlords have to keep tenants warm in the winter, but can leave them sweating in the summer. A city councilman wants to change that.

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California ISO on managing this month's heat wave: "California’s power grid held up against prolonged record temperatures because of new clean energy resources, more battery storage, and enhanced coordination with state government." www.caiso.com/about/news/m... h/t Wes Venteicher

Managing the July 2024 heat wave with our partners in California and the West | California ISO

Extreme weather like the extended heat wave California and much of the West have experienced this July can pose a reliability challenge for even the most resilient electric grid. Such prolonged heat e...

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“Human bodies tend to use sleep time to lower temperatures and recover from a brutally hot day; if temperatures don’t drop enough, people sleeping without air conditioning — or, say, people in major cities that didn’t get their power back for a week after a storm — don’t get that chance”

Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · 2y ago

Daytime high temps have risen fast. Nights are worse.

The drivers of climbing electricity rates are… 1. spikes in gas prices 2. rising costs to maintain and rebuild grid infrastructure 3. a utility business model that incentivizes big capital investments that customers have to pay off over decades www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti...

Don’t blame clean energy for rising electric bills

A new report links rising U.S. power bills to fossil gas price spikes and utility incentives — not solar, wind, and batteries, as clean energy foes suggest.

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It can be cheaper for a utility to pay to electrify homes rather than updating gas pipelines that serve those homes. Enjoyed speaking with James Ford at WPIX-New York about why electrification can make a lot of economic sense for utilities like ConEdison pix11.com/news/local-n...

All-new appliances for free? How a new Con Ed program provides them

WAKEFIELD, The Bronx (PIX11) — A new program promising brand-new, super-efficient appliances, lower monthly bills, and a smaller carbon footprint has left some utility customers skeptical. Ho…

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“The damage to human health, agriculture and the global economy is just beginning to be understood.” www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/c...

Well Beyond the U.S., Heat and Climate Extremes Are Hitting Billions

People all over the world are facing severe heat, floods and fire, aggravated by the use of fossil fuels. The year isn’t halfway done.

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Great (and very interesting) thread by @katharinehayhoe.com 👇

Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · 2y ago

Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. 🧵

4 hours and counting… ⏰📺 Excited to go live with Dr. Nee on PBS NOVA today - will be streaming on Twitch and YouTube if you want to join the conversation live! www.youtube.com/live/hFmAOrA...

Building Stuff with NOVA Livestream with Dr. Melissa Lott

Subscribe to our Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/novabuildingstuff/Tune in to our stream today as our host Dr. Nehemiah Mabry is joined by energy syste...

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Ecuador was plunged into a nationwide blackout on Wednesday afternoon, the country’s public work minister said, blaming the emergency on a failure of a key transmission line. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/w...

Driving in Tennessee this week — and each of our last 3 Tesla charging stations have increased in size by 2-3x since our August ‘23 trip Can’t help but wonder how much this region’s history (read: TVA) is influencing the build out @joshdr83.bsky.social #energytransition #electrification

Really enjoyed diving into these two books with @edcrooks.bsky.social and @josephmajkut.bsky.social on The Energy Gang last week! Happy listening, y'all!

Jeremy Wallace@jeremywallace.bsky.social · 2y ago

Proud of the Energy Gang going for it and just doing the two wolves of climate and capitalism book review on @akshatrathi.bsky.social and Brett Christophers. www.woodmac.com/podcasts/the...

For those who are also interested in reading Alon's latest --- Island Press just let me know that folks can use code TECH for 20% off islandpress.org/books/making...

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Dr. Melissa Lott@mclott.bsky.social · 2y ago

What an awesome start to the week! Just had coffee with Alon Tal. Thanks 🙏 for the great conversation and the copy of your latest book with @IslandPress, Alon! Can’t wait to dive into it 📖 😀 #climatetech #energytransition

What an awesome start to the week! Just had coffee with Alon Tal. Thanks 🙏 for the great conversation and the copy of your latest book with @IslandPress, Alon! Can’t wait to dive into it 📖 😀 #climatetech #energytransition

How do we make rooftop solar cheap in America? Here, it costs ~$4/watt to install a rooftop PV system, 4X as much as a similar system in Australia today! On today's Shift Key, we talk to Mary Powell, CEO of Sunrun, about how to unlock rooftop solar's full potential. heatmap.news/podcast/shif...

How to Unlock Super Cheap Rooftop Solar

Inside episode 17 of Shift Key.

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This looks really cool --- and, as the posting says "This is not an academic exercise—we’re looking for proposals with a near term path to implementation such that they could translate into real demand for carbon removal suppliers within the next 3-5 years." #netzero #speedandscale

Michael Wara@michaelwara.bsky.social · 2y ago

Cool job for folks interested in policy and carbon removal. Carbon removal fellow at Stripe. Plus you get to work with Nan, Jane, and Frauke. The CDR dream team. assets.ctfassets.net/fzn2n1nzq965...

Today --- while doing some paperwork --- I discovered that papers that I have (co-)authored have been cited in policy documents nearly 800 times. And thinking through what this number means got me thinking about broader conversations about "impact" and "success" in research and academia... 🧵

There’s a growing trend of replacing shuttered coal plants with solar, batteries, or other forms of clean energy. The ground is already cleared and the hookup to the electrical power grid is already there, so it makes all the sense in the world! More of this please 😊🌎 Here’s Nevada USA…

Former coal-fired power plant site now home to incredible new energy storage system: 'The infrastructure to connect the battery system to the grid at scale already exists'

"Throughout 2024, our customers are going to see their bills be between 15 and 20% lower by the end of the year."

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Awesome to see the trailer for #RisingTides drop! Enjoyed recording with Philip Boucher-Hayes on campus here at Columbia University last fall. And am excited to see how it all has come together. Huge thanks to Natalie Volk for all her hard work sorting the logistics for recording that day!

On Thursday 3/27 - C3E is hosting a rockstar panel on "Leveraging Data & Digitalization to Make the Grid More Visible, Resilient, & Clean” w/ Lisa Frantzis, Page Crahan, Alexina Jackson, Maria Pope, & Silvia Valerio c3e.org/webinars

Webinars — The Clean Energy Education & Empowerment (C3E) Initiative

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Yesterday, I spoke with Phaedra Trethan @usatoday.com about how April's eclipse will impact solar power in its path. #Eclipse2024 #solar www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Darkness from April's eclipse will briefly impact solar power in its path. What to know.

The eclipse isn't expected to disrupt the nation's power grid and power companies are planning to compensate for the temporary dip in solar power.

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