24/7 carbon-free electricity matching accelerates adoption of advanced clean energy technologies

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Iegor Riepin is a postdoctoral researcher specializing in energy systems at the Technische Universität Berlin. His work focuses on energy system modeling, energy economics and policy, and operations research. Iegor’s expertise and research interests encompass mathematical models, their applications to real-world problems, their limitations, and their impacts on decision-making. He contributes to advancing open and reproducible research practices and is a member of the Python for power system analysis (PyPSA) maintainers group.Tom Brown leads a group of energy system modelers at the Technische Universität Berlin, where he holds the professorship for digital transformation in energy systems. His group researches future pathways for the energy system, with a particular focus on revealing the trade-offs between energy resources, network expansion, flexibility, and public acceptance of new infrastructure. He is a supporter of openness in research and is one of the lead developers of the widely used open-source software PyPSA. Tom holds a PhD from Queen Mary, University of London, and a BA and MMath from the University of Cambridge.Jesse D. Jenkins is an assistant professor at Princeton University in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. He leads the Princeton ZERO Lab, which focuses on improving and applying optimization-based macro-energy system models to evaluate low-carbon energy technologies and generate insights to guide policy and planning decisions. Jesse earned a PhD and SM from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was previously a postdoctoral environmental fellow at Harvard University.Devon Swezey is senior manager for global energy and climate at Google, where he leads global clean energy advocacy. He is an author of numerous Google publications on 24/7 carbon-free electricity, including Google’s 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) policy roadmap and paper on the corporate role in accelerating advanced clean electricity technologies. Devon earned a MA in international economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a BA in international relations from Stanford University.