Niklas Laabs

Comms consultant with @VOXGlobal, specializing in ESG/sustainability. German now living in the US. Opinions are my own, RTs are not endorsements.

[Myles McCormick @mylesmccormick_]

The @FT is looking for someone to cover Texas while I'm in DC. Awesome beat reporting on everything from Big Oil and the LNG boom to the border and the thriving TX economy. Drop me a message if you want to talk. https://t.co/8rw01LChgR

[Ari Natter @AriNatter]

Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6 billion to restart dormant Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to power Microsoft data centers.
https://t.co/eWfxXtlaaK via @willwwade @dinabass

[Allison Prang @AllisonPrang]

A new group launched today to help with the more back-end technical work related to carbon removal policy. The Carbon Removal Standards Initiative is being supported by Carbon180, along with Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy and others. https://t.co/1feEnqhYER via @POLITICOPro

[Simon Mundy @simonmundy]

Clean tech start-ups are facing funding constraints — especially around the stage where they need to build their first full-scale plant. But investors and government institutions are starting to rise to the challenge.

Today's @ftmoralmoney newsletter:

https://t.co/y5SYenYp4m

[Matt Hill @mattstephenhill]

Africa's vast miombo woodlands -- covering an area nearly three times bigger than Texas -- are a critical carbon sink for the planet, a new study finds, holding twice as much CO2 as previously estimated https://t.co/GNfOZvRD73 via @climate

[Jennifer McDermott @JenMcDermottAP]

A milestone for next-gen geothermal: CA utility backs the largest new geothermal power development in the US — enough clean electricity from the Earth’s heat for some 400,000 homes. @SCE will purchase electricity from @fervoenergy. @AP_Climate https://t.co/d1qvzWu4OP

[Maria Gallucci @mariagallucci]

Southern California is poised to add hundreds of megawatts of geothermal energy to its grid — only instead of drawing from local geysers and hot springs, the 24/7 power will come from @fervoenergy’s cutting-edge project in Utah. Me for @CanaryMediaInc https://t.co/jBDMP6HJdL

[Julian Spector @JulianSpector]

The biggest tech giants want 24/7 clean energy, but they can't just go out and buy it.

@DukeEnergy has a new plan to let big corporate customers pick the clean energy portfolio they want, and pay for its construction, w/out raising rates for anyone else https://t.co/CBu6V3ye9e

[Amy Harder @AmyAHarder]

NEW! We just updated our @CipherClimate Cleantech Tracker to include critical minerals, & @amenasaiyid traveled to a proposed lithium site in North Carolina to tell the story of the dominance of "white gold." https://t.co/n7Zyf5pgz2

[Ben Geman @Ben_Geman]

Axios is a great workplace! I've been here 7+ years and highly recommend exploring this opening.

[Niklas Laabs @NiklasLaabs]

Fascinating story by @JulianSpector about how @FormEnergyInc figured out that its energy storage tech could potentially be used to help decarbonize the steel sector as well.

[Julian Spector @JulianSpector]

Startup @FormEnergyInc launched to tackle a huge climate challenge: storing clean energy for many days.

Now they're adapting their iron-air battery tech for another huge challenge: Cleaning up iron & steel production. I got the details from @mateojaramill
https://t.co/fyP7qwek5k

[katie brigham @katie_brigham]

Today @Climeworks opened the world's largest direct air capture facility in Iceland! It's both way smaller than what we ultimately need, and way bigger than anything that currently exists. Here's what ya need to know about it. https://t.co/4kbFldy5ZF

[Pippa Stevens @PippaStevens13]

#Wind generation declined in 2023 for the first time since the 1990s, via @EIAgov

"Slower wind speeds than normal affected wind generation in 2023, especially during the first half of the year when wind generation dropped by 14% compared with the same period in 2022."

[Andrew Freedman @afreedma]

No, generative AI won't overwhelm the US grid. But it presents major challenges when combined with re-shoring manufacturing, EVs, home/biz electrification and more. https://t.co/3ssTVvi4uy

[Andrew Freedman @afreedma]

Well known carbon removal company, Climeworks, branches out with removal portfolio business known as Climeworks Solutions. https://t.co/xtU763pn73

[Amy Harder @AmyAHarder]

“You could do the @Airbnb of transmission," says @AndresGluski of @TheAESCorp about getting more out of power lines otherwise going unused some of the time.

Read more from @CatClifford in @CipherClimate ⤵️
https://t.co/AIKZi2W3wb

[Coco Liu @cocojournalist]

Infinium, backed by @BillGates and counting Amazon among its early adopters, wants to make #alternative #fuels from water and captured #CO2 on an industrial scale. Here is a deep dive into the so-called #efuel 🎁 FREE to read via @climate #climatetech https://t.co/dtKYYfZIYl

[Tim McDonnell @timmcdonnell]

In today's @semafor Net Zero, we talk with @ErnestScheyder about his new book The War Below and the tough, uncomfortable choices on domestic mineral mining that US politicians and voters aren't fully grappling with https://t.co/YIVSGQlj2N

[Ari Natter @AriNatter]

Scoop: Biden is set to issue a $1.5B loan to restart a closed Michigan nuclear power plant, paving the way for a shuttered U.S. reactor to reopen for the first time.

Biden to Offer $1.5 Billion Loan to Restart Michigan Nuclear Power Plant | Bloomberg
https://t.co/mZHkZBa4h5

[Simon Mundy @simonmundy]

Leaders in business and finance are now grappling with a question that probably wouldn't have occurred to most of them until recently: what does a responsible approach to AI look like?

@seremony's latest excellent report for the FT Moral Money Forum:

https://t.co/SodNz8JJKU