David is a consultant to RMI, specializing in evaluating the impact of tax policies on the clean energy transition.
Before RMI, David was a Consultant at CPI Energy Finance in San Francisco, working on a team that developed innovative financing tools to accelerate the retirement of coal-fired power plants. Before moving to the Bay Area, he was a policy analyst in Washington, DC, where he spent five years at the U.S. Department of Energy in the Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy. David has a PhD in history and has taught at Yale University, the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, and the Universität Mannheim.
B.A. History, Cornell University 1989
Ph.D. History, Yale University, 1997
MBA Finance, The Wharton School, 2003
San Francisco
Coal economics have eroded dramatically in recent years, so much so that the continued use of existing coal-fired power often imposes a cost burden on electricity customers that exceeds the cost of newer and cleaner sources of power. Resource planning analyses performed by utilities across the country—including PacifiCorp in…
Meeting the United States’ NDC target of reducing emissions 50–52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 will require rapid action from companies, governments, and other entities across the country. These actors must accelerate the retirement and clean replacement of long-lived assets and infrastructure that support carbon-intensive economic activity (or,…
According to the latest US government inventory, solar will account for 39 percent of the electric generation capacity added in 2021, and wind will constitute a further 31 percent. With current technology costs and policy incentives, renewables are now unquestionably the cheapest generation assets to build and operate.
Replacing Prairie State Energy Campus with renewable energy and energy efficiency will save money for both customers and plant owners.