A New Chapter for the Energy Adventure(r)
India was an eye-opener, now the wider world awaits.
Apologies for the hiatus in posting. Just a quick update with some personal news: I’ve joined Cipher, a news outlet laser focused on covering the energy transition, particularly the technology side of things. This is very exciting.
Cipher is supported by a Bill Gates initiative known as Breakthrough Energy, a broad-based energy transition initiative that includes a research and analysis arm, as well as funds that invest in potentially big-impact clean energy and decarbonization technologies. You can read more about it here.
Cipher is set up to cover the energy transition as an independent journalistic organization. We’re led by Amy Harder, a first-rate energy and climate journalist I worked with at The Wall Street Journal back in 2015-16. She’s put together a terrific team over the past two years, and Cipher has ambitious plans to expand coverage in the coming months. The aim is to become the premier news outlet for tracking the energy transition’s technology side, in all its scientific, policy and societal facets.
As Cipher’s senior global correspondent. I’ll be focused on covering the critical energy transition in Asia, the Middle East and Africa. So I’ll be building on the work I did in India over the past two years, including on this substack.
As for the Energy Adventure(r), I’m still fleshing out ways to continue the journey, as I move into the wider world of climate impacts and energy transition beyond India. I’ll post a bit more sporadically, but I hope to be able to keep up the same on-the-ground, here-what’s-really-happening approach to energy and climate journalism. I’m in the field as I write, but I’ll keep the location as a surprise for now. I’ll post about it soon.
Before that, though, there’s one last post from the India trip to come, a little journey-capping surprise. So please bear with the pause, and know I’m puzzling out a future for the Energy Adventure(r).
More soon! Here’s a hint about the upcoming adventure:
Congratulations Bill! Excited to see what your next chapter brings.
Congratulations on the new role.