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Mitchell Smith

Senior Associate for Grid Strategy

Mitchell is a clean energy and environmental policy expert focused on electricity transmission, permitting, and infrastructure delivery. Most recently, he worked for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Grid Deployment Office (GDO), where he helped accelerate federal permitting and environmental reviews for large-scale transmission projects and led the delivery of technology tools to improve infrastructure decision-making. He holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Xavier University, with concentrations in Biology, Economics, Environmental Studies, and Peace and Justice Studies.

Reports

The Firm Frontier

Read the full report here. Executive summary The western United States is entering a period of unprecedented electricity demand growth driven by data center expansion, electrification, and new manufacturing activity. Utilities preparing integrated resource plans (IRPs) face a fundamental question: what new sources of clean, firm, dispatchable power can come online fast enough to meet […]

Posts

BAAJA blasts through the geothermal-fossil permitting parity gap

For two decades, oil and gas on federal land have had a faster permitting track than geothermal. A new Senate bill includes provisions that would close most of that gap.