Archive - James’s Newsletter

DW Empower Keynote - From the electrodollar to the petrodollar: America, money, and the grid

I gave this talk for the Digital Wildcatters Bitcoin Conference back in March.

Dec 29, 2022 •

James McGinniss

31:35

July 2022

AOE Part II: The God of Efficiency is Dead, and Electrification Has Killed It

DERs and the need for local resilience will drive radical changes in how users interact with the power grid

Jul 7, 2022 •

James McGinniss

May 2022

Part I: The Age of the Electron

Electricity is supplanting oil as the most important commodity in the world

May 12, 2022 •

James McGinniss

April 2022

Age Of the Electron Part IV: The ElectroDollar, a Possible Answer to the Fraying US Global Currency Reserve System

What do China, Bitcoin, Renewables, and the US Petro-Industrial Complex have to do with each other?

Apr 19, 2022 •

James McGinniss

March 2022

David Energy Announces $20.5M Series A

Accelerating our mission to build a cleaner, cheaper, more resilient grid

Mar 28, 2022 •

James McGinniss

November 2021

This is James’s Newsletter, a newsletter about trying to figure out how to build new institutions in the energy transition.

Nov 28, 2021 •

James McGinniss

March 2021

AOE Part III: A Cultural Awakening for Electricity

On average, people spend just six minutes a year thinking about their electricity bills. And when they do, it’s probably not because they…

Mar 12, 2021 •

James McGinniss

February 2021

Spot on! I’ve certainly drawn a lot from Taleb… You’re right in that I should reframe this a bit: a…

Feb 22, 2021 •

James McGinniss

March 2020

Introducing David Energy: A New Kind of Energy Company

In conjunction with our recently announced $1.5 million Pre-Seed financing round led by Box Group and Greycroft with Great Oaks, Oceans…

Mar 4, 2020 •

James McGinniss

September 2018

PART IV An Introduction to Blockchain and Retail Electricity Markets

The conversation surrounding blockchain in energy seems to recycle the same tired arguments for or against without much nuance. We know…

Sep 20, 2018 •

James McGinniss

July 2018

PART III Creating the Modern Electricity Provider: The David Energy Roadmap

A distributed future with retail electricity markets means offering the electric consumer something previously thought unimaginable —…

Jul 9, 2018 •

James McGinniss

June 2018

PART II Collocation and Franchise Rights: Infrastructure on the Modern Electric Grid

It is said that towards the end of his life, Nikola Tesla was attempting to use the acoustic frequencies of the earth in order to transmit…

Jun 19, 2018 •

James McGinniss

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