Kathryn Chelminski
@kathrynchelminski.bsky.social
Clean energy transitions, energy and environmental politics, clean tech and complex global governance. New book on Gov Energy Transitions with CUP is out now ⚡️🔌💡 @Brown CSL Fellow; Personal account, views are my own
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Governing Energy Transitions
Cambridge Core - Environmental Policy, Economics and Law - Governing Energy Transitions
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Thrilled to share my book "Governing Energy Transitions: A Study of Regime Complex Effectiveness on Geothermal Development in Indonesia and the Philippines" was published with Cambridge University Press at: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...! The book is available OA thanks to @snsf.ch support. 🔌💡
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This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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As millions of families face losing access to #SNAP benefits across the country tomorrow, reminder to donate to your local #foodbank or #foodpantry where you can: www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
This community fridge map is a great resource of free, community fridges: www.mutualaidhub.org.
This community fridge map is a great resource of free, community fridges: www.mutualaidhub.org.
Find Your Local Food Bank | Feeding America
Find the Feeding America member food bank nearest you. Over 200 member food banks can connect you with free food, food pantries, soup kitchens, and mobile pantries in your community.
www.feedingamerica.org
October 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
As millions of families face losing access to #SNAP benefits across the country tomorrow, reminder to donate to your local #foodbank or #foodpantry where you can: www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
This community fridge map is a great resource of free, community fridges: www.mutualaidhub.org.
This community fridge map is a great resource of free, community fridges: www.mutualaidhub.org.
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Meet the coal miner who just started a geothermal drilling business #energysky -- via Canary Media:
Meet the coal miner who just started a geothermal drilling business
A Colorado entrepreneur is going all in on a renewable energy source that will keep him digging — and could be a model for other miners looking beyond…
www.canarymedia.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Meet the coal miner who just started a geothermal drilling business #energysky -- via Canary Media:
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Come work with me and the great climate community at Brown University, incl @jenniferhadden.bsky.social @timmonsroberts.bsky.social
Please share widely! Deadline Jan 9, 2026.
Please share widely! Deadline Jan 9, 2026.
We're hiring! Postdoctoral Research Associate in Climate Solutions, Thomas J. Watson Jr. School of International and Public Affairs 2026-2028 apply.interfolio.com/176144
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October 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Come work with me and the great climate community at Brown University, incl @jenniferhadden.bsky.social @timmonsroberts.bsky.social
Please share widely! Deadline Jan 9, 2026.
Please share widely! Deadline Jan 9, 2026.
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New open-access book out on energy transitions in the Global South!
We are proud of its author, CSL affiliate and former postdoc
@kathrynchelminski.bsky.social
climate.watson.brown.edu/news/2025-10...
We are proud of its author, CSL affiliate and former postdoc
@kathrynchelminski.bsky.social
climate.watson.brown.edu/news/2025-10...
climate.watson.brown.edu
October 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
New open-access book out on energy transitions in the Global South!
We are proud of its author, CSL affiliate and former postdoc
@kathrynchelminski.bsky.social
climate.watson.brown.edu/news/2025-10...
We are proud of its author, CSL affiliate and former postdoc
@kathrynchelminski.bsky.social
climate.watson.brown.edu/news/2025-10...
Thrilled to share my book "Governing Energy Transitions: A Study of Regime Complex Effectiveness on Geothermal Development in Indonesia and the Philippines" was published with Cambridge University Press at: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...! The book is available OA thanks to @snsf.ch support. 🔌💡
Governing Energy Transitions
Cambridge Core - Environmental Policy, Economics and Law - Governing Energy Transitions
www.cambridge.org
October 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Thrilled to share my book "Governing Energy Transitions: A Study of Regime Complex Effectiveness on Geothermal Development in Indonesia and the Philippines" was published with Cambridge University Press at: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...! The book is available OA thanks to @snsf.ch support. 🔌💡
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Delighted and proud to share CSL affiliate @kathrynchelminski.bsky.social has a new book out! Available on open access climate.watson.brown.edu/news/2025-10...
Governing Energy Transitions: A Study of Regime Complex Effectiveness on Geothermal Development in Indonesia and the Philippines
Kathryn Chelminski's recently published book examines how the clean energy regime complex – the fragmented, complex sphere of governance in the clean energy issue area characterized by proliferating a...
climate.watson.brown.edu
October 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Delighted and proud to share CSL affiliate @kathrynchelminski.bsky.social has a new book out! Available on open access climate.watson.brown.edu/news/2025-10...
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What if companies disclosed climate risk the same way insurers analyze it: with event-based probabilistic models that show what could happen, when, and with what likelihood?
Check out our new paper in Environmental Research: Climate to learn more!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Check out our new paper in Environmental Research: Climate to learn more!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
August 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
What if companies disclosed climate risk the same way insurers analyze it: with event-based probabilistic models that show what could happen, when, and with what likelihood?
Check out our new paper in Environmental Research: Climate to learn more!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Check out our new paper in Environmental Research: Climate to learn more!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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We are on the ground, ready to help the countries affected by wildfires.
Through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, countries are deploying their firefighters, helicopters, and airplanes, alongside the EU's own rescEU firefighting fleet, working hand-in-hand with local teams to fight the flames.
Through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, countries are deploying their firefighters, helicopters, and airplanes, alongside the EU's own rescEU firefighting fleet, working hand-in-hand with local teams to fight the flames.
July 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
We are on the ground, ready to help the countries affected by wildfires.
Through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, countries are deploying their firefighters, helicopters, and airplanes, alongside the EU's own rescEU firefighting fleet, working hand-in-hand with local teams to fight the flames.
Through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, countries are deploying their firefighters, helicopters, and airplanes, alongside the EU's own rescEU firefighting fleet, working hand-in-hand with local teams to fight the flames.
Thrilled to share my article examining policy adaptation in DG #interconnection regimes in MA and NY is out in ERSS! shorturl.at/L7Xl1
I had the great opportunity to conduct this research during my postdoc at @climatesollab.bsky.social @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social. 🔌💡#energysky
I had the great opportunity to conduct this research during my postdoc at @climatesollab.bsky.social @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social. 🔌💡#energysky
Sparking adaptation: The politics of reforming effective interconnection regimes in Massachusetts and New York
As the U.S. grapples with the urgent need to speed clean energy deployment to meet net zero targets, interconnection delays are a major obstacle to ac…
shorturl.at
July 28, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Thrilled to share my article examining policy adaptation in DG #interconnection regimes in MA and NY is out in ERSS! shorturl.at/L7Xl1
I had the great opportunity to conduct this research during my postdoc at @climatesollab.bsky.social @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social. 🔌💡#energysky
I had the great opportunity to conduct this research during my postdoc at @climatesollab.bsky.social @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social. 🔌💡#energysky
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Delays in connecting to the electrical grid are a huge drag on the clean energy transition to solar and wind (aka interconnection queues). Congrats to CSL Fellow @kathrynchelminski.bsky.social on publishing her important new study on dealing with this challenge. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Sparking adaptation: The politics of reforming effective interconnection regimes in Massachusetts and New York
As the U.S. grapples with the urgent need to speed clean energy deployment to meet net zero targets, interconnection delays are a major obstacle to ac…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Delays in connecting to the electrical grid are a huge drag on the clean energy transition to solar and wind (aka interconnection queues). Congrats to CSL Fellow @kathrynchelminski.bsky.social on publishing her important new study on dealing with this challenge. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Proud of my former postdoc @kathrynchelminski.bsky.social for publishing on the U.S. interconnection queue, a niche but massively important topic for the green energy transition. 🌍🔌💡♻️
Delays in connecting to the electrical grid are a huge drag on the clean energy transition to solar and wind (aka interconnection queues). Congrats to CSL Fellow @kathrynchelminski.bsky.social on publishing her important new study on dealing with this challenge. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Sparking adaptation: The politics of reforming effective interconnection regimes in Massachusetts and New York
As the U.S. grapples with the urgent need to speed clean energy deployment to meet net zero targets, interconnection delays are a major obstacle to ac…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Proud of my former postdoc @kathrynchelminski.bsky.social for publishing on the U.S. interconnection queue, a niche but massively important topic for the green energy transition. 🌍🔌💡♻️
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A thoughtful blog post from our Legal Fellow, Sam Hudgens, regarding recent developments in insurance markets in Hawaii, Colorado, and New Mexico related to catastrophic risk.
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cepp.substack.com/p/tracking-r...
Tracking recent wildfire insurance developments in Western states
Attention to the creation, operation, and outcomes of programs across different states will help to identify which solutions are most effective in a rapidly evolving disaster insurance market
cepp.substack.com
July 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A thoughtful blog post from our Legal Fellow, Sam Hudgens, regarding recent developments in insurance markets in Hawaii, Colorado, and New Mexico related to catastrophic risk.
cepp.substack.com/p/tracking-r...
cepp.substack.com/p/tracking-r...
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As we confront recurring floods & fires, it's time to rethink risk.
"Privatising climate risks may backfire as people may resent bearing the costs of the collective failure to address the climate crisis...And privatising these risks spells trouble for public entities." 360info.org/burned-out-h...
"Privatising climate risks may backfire as people may resent bearing the costs of the collective failure to address the climate crisis...And privatising these risks spells trouble for public entities." 360info.org/burned-out-h...
Burned out: How privatised risk is failing victims of climate disasters - 360
Climate disasters have upended housing insurance markets in the US and globally. Policy solutions are now privatising climate change risks – with potentially disastrous consequences. Dramatic scenes o...
360info.org
July 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
As we confront recurring floods & fires, it's time to rethink risk.
"Privatising climate risks may backfire as people may resent bearing the costs of the collective failure to address the climate crisis...And privatising these risks spells trouble for public entities." 360info.org/burned-out-h...
"Privatising climate risks may backfire as people may resent bearing the costs of the collective failure to address the climate crisis...And privatising these risks spells trouble for public entities." 360info.org/burned-out-h...
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The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.
The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway
The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.
www.wired.com
July 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.
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Germany's Central Bank warned officials had previously “completely underestimated” the risks rising temperatures pose to the financial system.
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www.ft.com/content/c00c...
July 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Germany's Central Bank warned officials had previously “completely underestimated” the risks rising temperatures pose to the financial system.
www.ft.com/content/c00c...
www.ft.com/content/c00c...
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The International Court of Justice is about to deliver a landmark ruling on the Obligations of States in respect to #ClimateChange & legal consequences for failing to fulfill those obligations -- at 3 pm CEST, 9am ET -- 👀
Nations like Vanuatu are at the heart of this
Watch live on UN WebTV here:
Nations like Vanuatu are at the heart of this
Watch live on UN WebTV here:
THE HAGUE – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivers its Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivers its advisory opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change.
webtv.un.org
July 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The International Court of Justice is about to deliver a landmark ruling on the Obligations of States in respect to #ClimateChange & legal consequences for failing to fulfill those obligations -- at 3 pm CEST, 9am ET -- 👀
Nations like Vanuatu are at the heart of this
Watch live on UN WebTV here:
Nations like Vanuatu are at the heart of this
Watch live on UN WebTV here:
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Tim and I have been reading & talking about BRICS over the last few weeks. What is this group of countries really about? Not so much an anti-western or an anti-dollar bloc; these days it’s more a “remaking of the material basis of a new sovereignty, in a new era of globalization.”
“The postwar order rested on three pillars: American hegemony, the fossil-fuel energy system, and an open, multilateral trading order. America has now attacked each pillar at the foundation of its hydrocarbon global order.” —
New: @katemac.bsky.social & I
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
New: @katemac.bsky.social & I
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
July 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Tim and I have been reading & talking about BRICS over the last few weeks. What is this group of countries really about? Not so much an anti-western or an anti-dollar bloc; these days it’s more a “remaking of the material basis of a new sovereignty, in a new era of globalization.”
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Geothermal energy has lots of potential but still supplies less than 1% of the world's electricity.
Why are we not using more of it?
In this week's podcast we speak to Dr Marit Brommer, Head of the International Geothermal Association. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0rn0...
Why are we not using more of it?
In this week's podcast we speak to Dr Marit Brommer, Head of the International Geothermal Association. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0rn0...
June 24, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Geothermal energy has lots of potential but still supplies less than 1% of the world's electricity.
Why are we not using more of it?
In this week's podcast we speak to Dr Marit Brommer, Head of the International Geothermal Association. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0rn0...
Why are we not using more of it?
In this week's podcast we speak to Dr Marit Brommer, Head of the International Geothermal Association. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0rn0...
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Next-generation #geothermal technologies could become a vital part of #California’s clean energy portfolio – if there is a coordinated effort to reduce permitting barriers and modernize regulations.
www.catf.us/2025/06/perm...
www.catf.us/2025/06/perm...
Permitting and planning reforms key to unlocking California’s geothermal potential, argues new CATF report
A new report from Clean Air Task Force (CATF) outlines key policy actions California can take to accelerate geothermal energy.
www.catf.us
June 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Next-generation #geothermal technologies could become a vital part of #California’s clean energy portfolio – if there is a coordinated effort to reduce permitting barriers and modernize regulations.
www.catf.us/2025/06/perm...
www.catf.us/2025/06/perm...
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SMUD installing batteries at a former nuclear site. #energysky
www.energy-storage.news/smud-desri-p...
www.energy-storage.news/smud-desri-p...
SMUD and DESRI execute PPA for BESS on former California nuclear facility
Publicly owned California utility SMUD and developer DESRI have executed a long-term PPA for a 640MWh BESS in California.
www.energy-storage.news
June 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
SMUD installing batteries at a former nuclear site. #energysky
www.energy-storage.news/smud-desri-p...
www.energy-storage.news/smud-desri-p...
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Philippines reveals timeline for 10 GW renewables auction #energysky -- via pv magazine global: www.pv-magazine.com/...
Philippines reveals timeline for 10 GW renewables auction
The Philippines government has kicked off its fourth green energy auction (GEA-4), targeting more than 10 GW of solar and wind capacity.
www.pv-magazine.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Philippines reveals timeline for 10 GW renewables auction #energysky -- via pv magazine global: www.pv-magazine.com/...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/c...
"If a state gets hit by a hurricane or other extreme weather, 'the governor should be able to handle it,' Mr. Trump said. 'And frankly, if they can’t handle it, the aftermath, then maybe they shouldn’t be governor.'
"If a state gets hit by a hurricane or other extreme weather, 'the governor should be able to handle it,' Mr. Trump said. 'And frankly, if they can’t handle it, the aftermath, then maybe they shouldn’t be governor.'
Head of FEMA Command Center Quits After Trump Says He’ll Phase Out the Agency
www.nytimes.com
June 12, 2025 at 11:34 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/c...
"If a state gets hit by a hurricane or other extreme weather, 'the governor should be able to handle it,' Mr. Trump said. 'And frankly, if they can’t handle it, the aftermath, then maybe they shouldn’t be governor.'
"If a state gets hit by a hurricane or other extreme weather, 'the governor should be able to handle it,' Mr. Trump said. 'And frankly, if they can’t handle it, the aftermath, then maybe they shouldn’t be governor.'