Jigar Shah
@jigarshahdc.bsky.social
husband, dad, focused on elevating American entrepreneurs and innovators to achieve energy abundance by deploying at scale. It's simple, not easy. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jigarshahdc/
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11) Open Circuit @open-circuit.bsky.social
Discussions about major dynamics and developments in US climate policy. Can include guests!
Weekly episodes
🔌💡 @jigarshahdc.bsky.social @stephenlacey.bsky.social @cleangridview.bsky.social @latitudemedia.bsky.social
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Discussions about major dynamics and developments in US climate policy. Can include guests!
Weekly episodes
🔌💡 @jigarshahdc.bsky.social @stephenlacey.bsky.social @cleangridview.bsky.social @latitudemedia.bsky.social
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Open Circuit
News Commentary Podcast · Updated Weekly · The energy transition, decoded. Every week, three industry veterans explore the tech breakthroughs, market shakeups, and policy shifts that are driving the b...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
11) Open Circuit @open-circuit.bsky.social
Discussions about major dynamics and developments in US climate policy. Can include guests!
Weekly episodes
🔌💡 @jigarshahdc.bsky.social @stephenlacey.bsky.social @cleangridview.bsky.social @latitudemedia.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
Discussions about major dynamics and developments in US climate policy. Can include guests!
Weekly episodes
🔌💡 @jigarshahdc.bsky.social @stephenlacey.bsky.social @cleangridview.bsky.social @latitudemedia.bsky.social
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If they wanted to be an energy superpower in nuclear they could actually do that. But right now they are not on track to leveraging their $100B in nuclear investments to accomplish that.
Mark Carney Is Wrong: Canada Cannot Become an Energy Superpower
Canada can produce a lot more oil, LNG, and electricity.
That won't make us an energy superpower.
Ever.
@MarkJCarney @timhodgsonmt @ABDanielleSmith @BrianJeanAB
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/mark-carne...
Canada can produce a lot more oil, LNG, and electricity.
That won't make us an energy superpower.
Ever.
@MarkJCarney @timhodgsonmt @ABDanielleSmith @BrianJeanAB
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/mark-carne...
Mark Carney Is Wrong: Canada Cannot Become an Energy Superpower
Canada can produce more oil, more LNG, and more electricity—but production alone will never make us an energy superpower
markhamhislop.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
If they wanted to be an energy superpower in nuclear they could actually do that. But right now they are not on track to leveraging their $100B in nuclear investments to accomplish that.
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Clean Energy accounted for all electricity growth this year. Gas/Coal were basically a wash and will be for years to come for electricity generation.
We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.
We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Clean Energy accounted for all electricity growth this year. Gas/Coal were basically a wash and will be for years to come for electricity generation.
We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.
We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.
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Tech companies are turning to natural gas to help power U.S. data centers.
Jigar Shah, a former top Energy Department official, explains how installing batteries instead can strengthen the power grid, trim electric bills, and help curb emissions.
Jigar Shah, a former top Energy Department official, explains how installing batteries instead can strengthen the power grid, trim electric bills, and help curb emissions.
How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom
Tech companies are turning to natural gas to help power the growing number of U.S. data centers. Jigar Shah, a former top Energy Department official, explains how installing batteries instead can help...
e360.yale.edu
November 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Tech companies are turning to natural gas to help power U.S. data centers.
Jigar Shah, a former top Energy Department official, explains how installing batteries instead can strengthen the power grid, trim electric bills, and help curb emissions.
Jigar Shah, a former top Energy Department official, explains how installing batteries instead can strengthen the power grid, trim electric bills, and help curb emissions.
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@jigarshahdc.bsky.social you shared this on LI, is this something 🇨🇦 do their own liftoff report series on? My concern is that there's no coordination of getting these operation regs. Stakeholders like Gov, regulator(s), IPE, etc should get this into the curriculum, equivalency.
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
@jigarshahdc.bsky.social you shared this on LI, is this something 🇨🇦 do their own liftoff report series on? My concern is that there's no coordination of getting these operation regs. Stakeholders like Gov, regulator(s), IPE, etc should get this into the curriculum, equivalency.
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Epic rant from @jigarshahdc.bsky.social on Bill Gates. If you think you’ve heard enough about the memo already, you probably have. But you should listen to this. Deploy. Deploy. Deploy. (13:20 start)
overcast.fm/+ABNVEX5fJfc
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Bill Gates caused a climate meltdown — Open Circuit
After Bill Gates dropped a new climate manifesto, the internet did what it always does: lost its mind. Conservatives claimed victory, progressives accused him of selling out, and somewhere in the midd...
overcast.fm
November 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Epic rant from @jigarshahdc.bsky.social on Bill Gates. If you think you’ve heard enough about the memo already, you probably have. But you should listen to this. Deploy. Deploy. Deploy. (13:20 start)
overcast.fm/+ABNVEX5fJfc
overcast.fm/+ABNVEX5fJfc
Clean Energy accounted for all electricity growth this year. Gas/Coal were basically a wash and will be for years to come for electricity generation.
We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.
We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Clean Energy accounted for all electricity growth this year. Gas/Coal were basically a wash and will be for years to come for electricity generation.
We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.
We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.
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HELLO. REALLY SPECIAL JOB ALERT at @climatecabinet.org
We’re looking for a Senior Development Director. Maybe it is you. Maybe it is someone you know.
Details here 👇👇👇
We’re looking for a Senior Development Director. Maybe it is you. Maybe it is someone you know.
Details here 👇👇👇
Senior Development Director
San Francisco, California, United States
job-boards.greenhouse.io
November 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
HELLO. REALLY SPECIAL JOB ALERT at @climatecabinet.org
We’re looking for a Senior Development Director. Maybe it is you. Maybe it is someone you know.
Details here 👇👇👇
We’re looking for a Senior Development Director. Maybe it is you. Maybe it is someone you know.
Details here 👇👇👇
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More of this please! Great example of how an emissions mitigation investment can also help with adaptation and resilience.
After Jamaica’s Disastrous Storm, Solar Power Is a Bright Spot
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
More of this please! Great example of how an emissions mitigation investment can also help with adaptation and resilience.
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Illinois: $1 billion in battery investment will save consumers $13 billion in capacity costs.
This is what @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and I have been talking about the past years. As capacity costs rise while battery costs plummet, we will see more of this.
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/i...
This is what @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and I have been talking about the past years. As capacity costs rise while battery costs plummet, we will see more of this.
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/i...
Illinois to add 3 GW of batteries, saving consumers $12 billion over 20 years
Illinois is set to issue procurements for 3 GW of battery storage, under a bill expected to be signed by Governor JB Pritzker. Transmission improvements to speed renewable deployment are also in the w...
pv-magazine-usa.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Illinois: $1 billion in battery investment will save consumers $13 billion in capacity costs.
This is what @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and I have been talking about the past years. As capacity costs rise while battery costs plummet, we will see more of this.
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/i...
This is what @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and I have been talking about the past years. As capacity costs rise while battery costs plummet, we will see more of this.
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/i...
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"Bill Gates can get f*cked and we should stop listening to him on climate."
True - and no billionaire can try to dictate form any longer. A reckoning of centralised versus decentralised power is coming.
True - and no billionaire can try to dictate form any longer. A reckoning of centralised versus decentralised power is coming.
This is an absolute banger of a takedown of Bill Gates' latest memo from an apoplectic @jigarshahdc.bsky.social, who brought a box full of receipts.
[tl;dl version - 'Bill Gates can get f*cked and we should stop listening to him on climate']
It's my fave so far of a lot of excellent reax.
1/n
[tl;dl version - 'Bill Gates can get f*cked and we should stop listening to him on climate']
It's my fave so far of a lot of excellent reax.
1/n
Bill Gates caused a climate meltdown
open.spotify.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"Bill Gates can get f*cked and we should stop listening to him on climate."
True - and no billionaire can try to dictate form any longer. A reckoning of centralised versus decentralised power is coming.
True - and no billionaire can try to dictate form any longer. A reckoning of centralised versus decentralised power is coming.
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This is an absolute banger of a takedown of Bill Gates' latest memo from an apoplectic @jigarshahdc.bsky.social, who brought a box full of receipts.
[tl;dl version - 'Bill Gates can get f*cked and we should stop listening to him on climate']
It's my fave so far of a lot of excellent reax.
1/n
[tl;dl version - 'Bill Gates can get f*cked and we should stop listening to him on climate']
It's my fave so far of a lot of excellent reax.
1/n
Bill Gates caused a climate meltdown
open.spotify.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This is an absolute banger of a takedown of Bill Gates' latest memo from an apoplectic @jigarshahdc.bsky.social, who brought a box full of receipts.
[tl;dl version - 'Bill Gates can get f*cked and we should stop listening to him on climate']
It's my fave so far of a lot of excellent reax.
1/n
[tl;dl version - 'Bill Gates can get f*cked and we should stop listening to him on climate']
It's my fave so far of a lot of excellent reax.
1/n
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Billie Eilish. "Why are you a billionaire?" Damn good question Billie, damn good question.
"If you are a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but give your money away, shorties"
consequence.net/2025/10/bill...
consequence.net/2025/10/bill...
Billie Eilish Calls Out Billionaires After Announcing Her Own $11.5 Million Charitable Donation
The pop star put her money where her mouth is while calling on billionaires to do the same during the WSJ. Innovator Awards on Wednesday night.
consequence.net
October 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Billie Eilish. "Why are you a billionaire?" Damn good question Billie, damn good question.
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Sunday 11/9 at 10am on Climate Chat "What Politics Can & Can't Do for climate" with @jigarshahdc.bsky.social. We will cover a wide range of topics from new energy sources to why administrations find it so hard to act on climate.
#ClimateCrisis #ClimatePolitics
youtube.com/live/P7W2aAN...
#ClimateCrisis #ClimatePolitics
youtube.com/live/P7W2aAN...
What Politics Can & Can't Do for Climate with Jigar Shah
YouTube video by Climate Chat
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November 8, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Sunday 11/9 at 10am on Climate Chat "What Politics Can & Can't Do for climate" with @jigarshahdc.bsky.social. We will cover a wide range of topics from new energy sources to why administrations find it so hard to act on climate.
#ClimateCrisis #ClimatePolitics
youtube.com/live/P7W2aAN...
#ClimateCrisis #ClimatePolitics
youtube.com/live/P7W2aAN...
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The Light Won't Dim | Solar Power & Clean Energy Documentary – with leaders like Senator Bernie Sanders, climate activist Bill McKibben, clean energy innovator Jigar Shah, revealing both obstacles and growing momentum for clean energy — resilience, equity, future hope www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDK-...
The Light Won't Dim | Solar Power & Clean Energy Documentary
YouTube video by Fossil Free Media
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October 31, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The Light Won't Dim | Solar Power & Clean Energy Documentary – with leaders like Senator Bernie Sanders, climate activist Bill McKibben, clean energy innovator Jigar Shah, revealing both obstacles and growing momentum for clean energy — resilience, equity, future hope www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDK-...
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This week on Open Circuit, Stephen Lacey, Jigar Shah and Caroline Golin, CEO of Envision Energy Advisors, explore a surprising trend: in some states, big new loads have actually lowered retail electricity rates. Can data centers do the same? 🎧 Listen here: www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...
If large loads lower rates, how can data centers do the same?
In some states, big new loads have moderated prices — even as grid hardening and extreme weather costs drive them up elsewhere.
www.latitudemedia.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This week on Open Circuit, Stephen Lacey, Jigar Shah and Caroline Golin, CEO of Envision Energy Advisors, explore a surprising trend: in some states, big new loads have actually lowered retail electricity rates. Can data centers do the same? 🎧 Listen here: www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...
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easy to miss in the punditry about Musk's pay package:
he only becomes a trillionaire if he meets *a bunch* of milestones
payouts begin at $2 trillion market cap + other conditions
here's a handy graphic
www.wsj.com/business/aut...
he only becomes a trillionaire if he meets *a bunch* of milestones
payouts begin at $2 trillion market cap + other conditions
here's a handy graphic
www.wsj.com/business/aut...
![graphic: Tesla proposed a $1 trillion pay package with 12 tranches [now passed by shareholders] and for Musk to get the first tranche, Tesla must achieve:
* $2 trillion in market capitalization PLUS any one of
* $50 billion Ebitda (a measure of earnings)
* 20 million cars delivered
* 1 million robots sold
* 1 million robotaxis in operation
* 10 million Full Self Driving subscriptions](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fwks525g7gw5wc7ul2wg4wj5/bafkreie4ria67kwkysdoelkwmh2ol4kphfem6umc4oakwtfhvt25jxskcm@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
easy to miss in the punditry about Musk's pay package:
he only becomes a trillionaire if he meets *a bunch* of milestones
payouts begin at $2 trillion market cap + other conditions
here's a handy graphic
www.wsj.com/business/aut...
he only becomes a trillionaire if he meets *a bunch* of milestones
payouts begin at $2 trillion market cap + other conditions
here's a handy graphic
www.wsj.com/business/aut...
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Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.
Bill Gates has a new memo out calling for a “strategic pivot” on climate change, downplaying “doomsday” talk to focus on filling enormous post-USAID budget gaps in global health and vaccine funding. I got an early glimpse of his thinking last week:
7 New Takes From Bill Gates on Climate ‘Doomsday’ Talk and Global Health
“I mean, God bless the Europeans for caring about climate.”
heatmap.news
October 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.
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@jigarshahdc.bsky.social please do a podcast with Tim Echols. Do an odd couple style thing. It would be great!
November 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
@jigarshahdc.bsky.social please do a podcast with Tim Echols. Do an odd couple style thing. It would be great!
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🗳️ It's election day on Tuesday! This may be an an off-off-cycle year, but there are still a handful of important races for the climate.
@emilypont.bsky.social points out a handful for you to pay attention to tomorrow ⤵️:
@emilypont.bsky.social points out a handful for you to pay attention to tomorrow ⤵️:
The Climate Races to Watch on Tuesday
It’s an off-off-cycle election year, but there are still a handful of key elections going on in Georgia, New Jersey, and Virginia.
heatmap.news
November 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🗳️ It's election day on Tuesday! This may be an an off-off-cycle year, but there are still a handful of important races for the climate.
@emilypont.bsky.social points out a handful for you to pay attention to tomorrow ⤵️:
@emilypont.bsky.social points out a handful for you to pay attention to tomorrow ⤵️:
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Excellent from @jigarshahdc.bsky.social: “Why Commercial Real Estate Must Lead on Electricity Affordability”
www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-co...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-co...
November 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Excellent from @jigarshahdc.bsky.social: “Why Commercial Real Estate Must Lead on Electricity Affordability”
www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-co...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-co...
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Interesting take on Gates from a real insider: this comparison between China's deployment-focused approach and Western innovation focus (pushed by Gates) paints a real picture for why the two countries have looked so different in terms of, well deployment.
His worst offense was reorienting the entire Paris agreement away from affordability toward innovation through his Mission Innovation side show in 2015. China went the route of deployment, we decided that we needed to focus on innovation instead.
www.wsj.com/articles/oba...
www.wsj.com/articles/oba...
Obama and Bill Gates to Launch Clean Energy Initiative
President Barack Obama and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will launch a multi-billion-dollar initiative Monday to accelerate clean-energy research and development as part of a global effort to fight ...
www.wsj.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Interesting take on Gates from a real insider: this comparison between China's deployment-focused approach and Western innovation focus (pushed by Gates) paints a real picture for why the two countries have looked so different in terms of, well deployment.
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Illinois will becoming the 5th state to eliminate local parking requirements for new development projects near transit, after:
—California (assembly bill 2097, 2022)
—Colorado (house bill 24–1304, 2024)
—Oregon (Land Conservation and Development Commission, 2022)
—Washington (house bill 1491, 2025)
—California (assembly bill 2097, 2022)
—Colorado (house bill 24–1304, 2024)
—Oregon (Land Conservation and Development Commission, 2022)
—Washington (house bill 1491, 2025)
Illinois will effectively eliminate parking minimum requirements in ~all of Chicago and much of its suburbs thanks to the transit funding bill that passed last night.
Also contains parking reform! This is a preliminary map of Chicagoland based on the People Over Parking Act provision.
It would also apply downstate though!
It would also apply downstate though!
October 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Illinois will becoming the 5th state to eliminate local parking requirements for new development projects near transit, after:
—California (assembly bill 2097, 2022)
—Colorado (house bill 24–1304, 2024)
—Oregon (Land Conservation and Development Commission, 2022)
—Washington (house bill 1491, 2025)
—California (assembly bill 2097, 2022)
—Colorado (house bill 24–1304, 2024)
—Oregon (Land Conservation and Development Commission, 2022)
—Washington (house bill 1491, 2025)
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Bill Gates wrote an... odd letter about how we don't need to focus on climate change anymore. @jigarshahdc.bsky.social @leahstokes.bsky.social and Rachel Cleetus from @ucs.org dismantle his straw man arguments: www.fastcompany.com/91432291/bil...
Bill Gates is just plain wrong about climate change
After 20 years positioning himself as a climate expert, Gates is now making straw man arguments and exposing the 'audacity' of a billionaire who thinks he can lecture the world.
www.fastcompany.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Bill Gates wrote an... odd letter about how we don't need to focus on climate change anymore. @jigarshahdc.bsky.social @leahstokes.bsky.social and Rachel Cleetus from @ucs.org dismantle his straw man arguments: www.fastcompany.com/91432291/bil...