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Energy climate tech innovation policy for inclusive well-being. U.Wisc Prof @UWLaFollette @uw_eap 🍁 How Solar Got Cheap http://www.amzn.com/1032597496

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Greg Nemet @gregnemet.net · 13d

Unique opportunity here to serve as a Chapter Scientist for IPCC 7th Assessment Report.

Apply by 18 October

IPCC seeking highly motivated early-career researchers from developing countries and economies in transition to be Chapter Scientists for AR7.

Details below…

www.ictp.it/opportunity/...

IPCC AR7 Chapter Scientists | ICTP

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is in the process of preparing its Seventh Assessment report (AR7). The IPCC Working Groups are seeking highly motivated early-career researchers f...

Greg Nemet @gregnemet.net · 29d

Join our team working on Environmental Policy at U.Wisconsin.

Delighted to announce The La Follette School of Public Affairs at University of Wisconsin-Madison has just launched a search for an Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy.

Deadline: October 24, 2025.

jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

Greg Nemet @gregnemet.net · Jun 9

More soon…

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Greg Nemet @gregnemet.net · Jun 9

Updated with new data and chapters, this 2nd edition describes an array of driving forces leading us toward a solar-centric energy system, one where solar power lies at the core rather than at the edge.

Greg Nemet @gregnemet.net · Jun 9

The climate problem is getting worse but the solutions are getting better.
So far, no technology has done more for improving the solutions available to address climate change than PV.

Greg Nemet @gregnemet.net · Jun 9

New book coming out July 18:
2nd ed. of How Solar Energy Became Cheap, now titled, “Pathway to a Solar Centric Economy.”

New focus on long term implications of continued trends in PV:
1. Solar becomes the core of global energy system
2. Need to prepare to take advantage of it

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Greg Nemet @gregnemet.net · May 27

New paper led by Prof. Lena Neij "Beyond Market Failures" for solar policy. Focuses on the roles that policy can play in enabling residential adoption. Case study of Sweden.

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Beyond market failures: understanding the need for dedicated deployment policy for solar PV in Sweden

Abstract. The urgency of decarbonization calls for a deeper understanding of PV deployment in terms of planning, acquisition and installation, and of the j

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · May 26

It should be more well known that @solarchase.bsky.social and @gregnemet.net and Erica Fuchs are quoted in the chapter, very much at the heart of what makes it excellent.

Greg Nemet @gregnemet.net · May 13

The State of CDR team is hiring. The Head of Partnerships position will help us advance international collaboration on scaling carbon dioxide removal.

Come work with an international team.

jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/head-of...

Head of Partnerships - State of Carbon Dioxide Removal - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Job Summary: This is an exciting opportunity to lead the CDR institution building activities for the ground- breaking State of Carbon Dioxide Removal (SoCDR) initiative as it enters into a new phase...

Greg Nemet @gregnemet.net · Feb 19

I am hiring a 2-year post doc at U.Wisconsin on “technological innovation and climate change“ as part of the GENIE project:
genie.ece.iiasa.ac.at/about

Priority deadline is 14 March 2025 and start is spring/summer 2025.

More details at:
uwmadison.box.com/v/techchange...

genie.ece.iiasa.ac.at

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Dan Gearino @dangearino.bsky.social · Feb 14

Thanks to @gwagner.com, @gregnemet.bsky.social and @cleanenergywire.bsky.social for sharing insights about what the new secretary of energy missed when talking about German energy policy.

Dan Gearino @dangearino.bsky.social · Feb 13

I wrote about Chris Wright's introductory speech, and his tangent about Germany's energy transition. To boil Germany's experience down to a cautionary tale is missing the plot.

insideclimatenews.org/news/1302202...
#energysky

Trump’s New Energy Secretary Called Germany’s Energy Transition ‘Unreliable.’ But He Missed All the Nuance - Inside Climate News

Chris Wright spent part of his introductory speech criticizing German policies and championing natural gas. Experts in and out of the country say he oversimplified a complex process.

insideclimatenews.org

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Tim Latimer @timlatimer.bsky.social · Dec 30

Not every technology has the same learning rate—and some technologies don’t even have a learning curve. There has been some good research into what traits make a technology better for learning curves. We’d do a lot better as a society if that work was applied more readily to public policy.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · Dec 1

Thank you kindly!
Check out also John Perlin’s from Space to Earth and/or Let it Shine.

@gregnemet.bsky.social How Solar Energy Became Cheap. www.routledge.com/How-Solar-En...

and @solarchase.bsky.social ‘s Solar power finance w/o jargon book.

How Solar Energy Became Cheap: A Model for Low-Carbon Innovation

Solar energy is a substantial global industry, one that has generated trade disputes among superpowers, threatened the solvency of large energy companies, and prompted serious reconsideration of elect...

www.routledge.com

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Valentin Goujon @vgoujon.bsky.social · Dec 1

Not so much about the history of solar technologies in my memory, but the book "Solar Power" (www.ucpress.edu/books/solar-...) and the great work by @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social 🔆

Solar Power by Dustin Mulvaney - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

www.ucpress.edu

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Energy Demand changes Induced by Technological-Social innovation @edits-community.bsky.social · Nov 14

❓How to achieve high wellbeing with low impacts: Our seminar at #COP29 shows demand-side solutions for green transformation.
👉 What's your example?
🕘15 Nov., 15:45 -17:00 local time
Moderated by Joyashree Roy, talks by @dianaurge.bsky.social, @KeigoAkimoto, @BasvanRuijven, @gregnemet.bsky.social

Greg Nemet @gregnemet.net · Nov 11

For those at #COP29 join us at the Japan Pavilion on Friday 15:45 for a session on:
“Pathway to the Green Transformation of Society”
on our work on low energy demand with:

Joyashree Roy, AIT
Bas van Ruijven, IIASA
Keigo Akimoto, RITE
Greg Nemet, U.Wisconsin
Diana Urge-Vorsatz, IPCC

Also streamed:

Pathway to the Green Transformation of Society - EDITS at COP29

Diffusion of novel digital technologies and major social innovation trends are expected to bring about changes on the demand-side that roll-out GX in the entire socio-economy. A comprehensive evaluati...

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Energy Demand changes Induced by Technological-Social innovation @edits-community.bsky.social · Nov 11

🚨 Join the COP29 seminar
📆 On 15.Nov. at 15:45 (local time)/12:45CET/20:45JST
📈 Pathway to the Green Transformation of Society
▶️ how novel digital technologies diffuse and what major social innovation trends are seen that positively influence our common future. iiasa.ac.at/events/nov-2...

Greg Nemet @gregnemet.net · Oct 29

Important report heading into COP29:

The 2024 Climate Technology Progress Report from the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre.

Follows up on where we are after the commitments made at COP28 last year.

Report launch and webinar this Friday November 1

register.gotowebinar.com/register/120...

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Greg Nemet @gregnemet.net · Oct 29

Cat Clifford captures challenges of the energy transition in a purple swing state, Wisconsin

“Shared revenue programs” key to getting communities on board

Large solar preferable to CAFO
(Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation) w water quality concerns and others

www.ciphernews.com/articles/wha...

What it takes to build green energy in fossil fuel-dependent Wisconsin - Cipher News

For Wisconsin to lower its reliance fossil fuels, it will need a lot more solar farms. But in politically-purple Wisconsin, government pressure to pursue more clean energy has been middling.

www.ciphernews.com

Greg Nemet @gregnemet.net · Sep 26

Paul Haavardsrud on CBC "Cost of Living" on the future of solar

Solar is sneaking up on people

It’s 6% of global electricity, growing at 30%/yr,
and it's been growing like that for 30 years.

It won’t take many more years of that to make an impact Revolutionary? maybe

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

The solar power revolution is coming | Cost of Living with Paul Haavardsrud | Live Radio | CBC Listen

Solar power is at the dawn of a quiet revolution. Costs are coming down fast and technology is only getting better. By 2035, solar could make up half of the world's electricity generation. So what could boundless cheap energy mean for us?

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OxfordSmithSchool @smithschool.ox.ac.uk · Sep 6

Read this fascinating Science|Business article on the origins of #SolarPower featuring research from Sugandha Srivastav and @gregnemet.bsky.social :
sciencebusiness.net/news/how-che...
@inetoxford.bsky.social @universityofoxford.bsky.social

How cheap solar power could have arrived decades ago

If there’s a good news climate change story right now, one to counteract the grim daily scroll of reports about wildfires, droughts, dying coral reefs, and deadly heatwaves, it’s the stunning rise of ...

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