Recent News & Publications
- April 2025: We signed our first geothermal energy deal in Asia - and the first corporate power purchase agreement and investment for geothermal energy in Taiwan with Baseload Power.
- March 2025: CMU Energy Week Keynote: AI & Energy
- March 2025:
CERAWeek Panels:
- Nuclear Innovation - Advancements in SMRs and advanced reactors
- Women Leaders Accelerating Cleantech and Sustainability
- Tripling Nuclear Energy Capacity by 2050: Unleashing nuclear's potential to power data centers, refineries, manufacturing and beyond
- March 2025: MIT Energy Conference Panel: AI and Electricity Demand Growth as a Catalyst for Clean Energy Deployment
- January 2025: National Academy of Sciences Workshop on Pathways for New Nuclear Development
Coming Up
- April 2025: Data Center World Keynote Panel feat. Kairos Power
Links to Prior Work
Partnerships
- October 2024: Our team announced a ground-breaking partnership with Kairos Power to develop 500MW of advanced Small Modular Reactors, expected online 2030-2035. By procuring electricity from an “orderbook” of reactors, we will help accelerate commercialization of this clean-firm capacity, making nuclear technology more affordable and scalable.
- July 2024: We announced our commitment to offtake from RExus’s Waste Wood-to-Energy (WWtE) Plant in collaboration with PacificLight Energy. This first-of-its-kind sustainable biomass facility integrates circular synergy and best-in-class technology, delivering 10% higher efficiency than standard plants in Singapore.
- June 2024: We built on our pilot with Fervo Energy to scale to a 115MW offtake partnership for enhanced geothermal power with Fervo and NV Energy.
Publications
- December 2024: Updated clean energy procurement guidelines via an update to our paper: The Corporate Role in Accelerating Advanced Clean Electricity Technologies.
Talks
- November 2024: Listen to my panel on Clean Energy & AI at Princeton Andlinger Center as a podcast on Heatmap / Shift Key.
- October 2024: MIT Tech Review EmTech conference on Google's clean energy strategy to enable AI and data center growth.
- September 2024: New York Climate Week Sightlive Panel on deploying first-of-a-kind technologies, with a focus on geothermal power. Third Way Panel on powering the future with 24/7 carbon-free energy. NEI Nuclear Energy Assembly panel on partnerships to enable project launch.
U.S. Department of Energy
Reports
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DOE's Pathways to Commercial Liftoff, first published in March 2023, captured our commercial assessment for
each of several critical clean energy technologies.
- Introduction
- Clean Hydrogen
- Long Duration Energy Storage
- Advanced Nuclear (2024 Update)
- Carbon Management
- Innovative Grid Deployment
- Next-Gen Geothermal
- Offshore Wind
- Virtual Power Plants
- Industrial Decarbonization: Overview
- DOE's Adoption Readiness Level Framework, first published in February 2023 and used across DOE, National Labs, and industry, provides a systematic framework for assessing technology adoption risks in parallel with the familiar "TRL" scale. You can find the assessment tool here.
- Climate Tech VC: Founder's Guide to DOE helps start-ups discover the many opportunities in a complex government agency. August 2022.
- Microelectronics at the Department of Energy provides an overview of microelectronics capabilities across the DOE and its 17 National Labs. June 2022.
- Securing America’s Clean Energy Supply Chain included a pragmatic report on technology commercialization. February 2022.
Talks
- CERAWeek Panel: Achieving Liftoff: Investing with DOE to Commercialize Clean Energy Technologies. March 2024.
- Innovative Grid Deployment Liftoff Webinar. December 2023.
- Deploy23 plenary on the Pathway to Liftoff for Clean Hydrogen. September 2023.
- Bipartisan Policy Center Talk: Hydrogen Technology Explained & Scaling the Next Generation. September 2023.
- Industrial Decarbonization Liftoff Webinar. June 2023.
- Pathways to Commercial Liftoff Launch Webinar and Clean Hydrogen deep dive. March 2023.
ACLU
Reports
- Count Every Vote Report emphasised (with quantitative evidence) the importance of waiting to count every vote in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Also see blog post and At Liberty Podcast. October 2020.
- COVID-19 in Jails Report was one of the earliest analytical reports to estimate scenarios for the potential impact of COVID-19 in jails and at large. Also see blog post, explainer by fivethirtyeight & The Marshall Project, Op-Ed from Aaron Horowitz. April 2020.
- A Tale of Two Countries: Racially Targeted Arrests in the Era of Marijuana Reform drew on our team's research report to demonstrate racial disparities in marijuana arrests across the U.S. Also see data viz. April 2020.
Blogs
- Our ACLU Tech & Analytics Blog helped ACLU supporters better understand our work.
- An Introduction to ACLU Analytics.
- Updates Part 1 and Part 2.
Talks
- Behind the Scenes Briefing on ACLU's Redistricting Program. October 2021.
- UNC Charlotte School of Data Science Invited Webinar. October 2020.
- Yale Philanthropy Conference Panel on Data Driven Impact. February 2020.
Data Journalism & Advocacy
- Redistricting: States We're Watching. December 2021.
- Family Surveillance by Algorithm. September 2021.
- 1033 Program Analysis. May 2021.
- How Nursing Homes Got Away With Hiding Bodies During the COVID-19 Outbreak. July 2020.
- Decarceration and Crime During COVID-19. July 2020.
- Analysis of D.C. Stop-and-Frisk Data. June 2020.
- Clearing the Record: How Eviction Sealing Laws Can Advance Housing Access for Women of Color. January 2020.
- Wealth-Based Driver's License Suspensions: Driven to Poverty. November 2019.
- Oklahoma Victims Compensation Program Disproportionately Denies Funds for Black Victims. July 2019.
- Racial Disparities in D.C. Policing: Descriptive Evidence from 2013–2017. May 2019, Updated July 2019. 2020 Data Update. March 2021.