Elder millennials are coming to save the grid.
New episode of Energy Empire is out — how a totaled Tesla ended up powering homes in Ukraine, and why millions of EV batteries are sitting unused in American driveways.
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Jamie Nolan 🦋
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Jamie Nolan 🦋
@dcjams
Solo cleantech + energy comms strategist with hustle. Podcaster @EnergyEmpirePod. Former chief media strategist @ENERGY Loan Programs Office.
Alexandria, VA Katılım Kasım 2007
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My dad's a trucker. Electric semis sound "farfetched" to him.
But in Long Beach, there's a waitlist of drivers wanting to switch to electric trucks.
Why? No fumes, no vibrations, quiet cab, one-pedal driving.
Once truckers actually drive these things, they get it.
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Today, I am creating a new position in my administration focused on tackling high energy costs — Virginia's Chief Energy Officer.
As Virginians across the Commonwealth are feeling the squeeze of rising bills, we are working to deliver affordable, reliable energy.
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Iran might accidentally make Trump the renewable energy president.
When oil gets weaponized, suddenly EVs and solar stop looking like ideology and start looking like independence.
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Do you want to be right or do you want to be effective?
My golden rule for clean energy: customize the message to the room.
Some audiences respond to "climate." Others prefer "environmental protection" or "conservation."
Meet people where they are. 🎯
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How do you deploy gigawatts of distributed batteries across the US grid?
Nobody actually knows yet.
@XcelEnergy and @sparkfunder are running one of the most interesting experiments to find out.
@timothyhade and @JigarShahDC break it down 👇
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Energy podcasts are so bro-y.
Someone had to say it. 😄
Glad to be bringing a different energy to the conversation—literally.
#EnergyEmpire
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Arnab Pal helped pass the IRA when everyone in the room would have bet against it.
Now he's the founder of @DeployAction — and he's trying to figure out why states that want clean energy can't seem to build it.
New @EnergyEmpire episode out now.
@JigarShahDC @dcjams
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Your followers trust you more than your company's logo ever will.
Jamie Nolan makes the case for executives to stop hiding behind corporate accounts — and start showing up as themselves.
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The solar revolution is driven not by green ambitions but by falling prices, says Simon Kuper: ft.trib.al/ZFTMi9e
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Read more in today's @axios -- Exclusive: Google, Tesla unite to fight energy costs axios.com/2026/03/10/goo… #gridutilization
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Utilize is bringing together companies including Carrier, Google, Renew Home, Sparkfund, SPAN, Verrus, and Tesla to help make this a real policy and market priority. This is one of the most important energy ideas in the country right now, and we’re just getting started. 5/
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Today we launched @UtilizeCoalition: a new industry-led effort focused on a simple idea with huge implications for affordability, reliability, and economic growth: getting more out of the electric grid we already have. 1/
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The U.S. is one of the largest oil producers on the planet and a net exporter — and most people still don't know that.
The "it's about the oil" argument hasn't aged well since 2003.
@dcjams
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President Trump’s campaign promised voters lower prices, higher wages and a massive deportation campaign. What has he achieved? Bloomberg Opinion analyzed 12 metrics to cut through the political noise bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-…
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China’s emissions are falling as they build the future.☀️
Meanwhile, the US props up failing coal plants.💨 One leads, the other pays to preserve the past.😑
Read the full analysis on @WeDontHaveTime👇
app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/0bbae5b3…
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