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Renewable Energy Policy Expert
About James Larsen
In 2022, James Larsen co-drafted the EU’s Binding Renewable Procurement Directive, now adopted by 19 member states, which mandates that public infrastructure projects source at least 75% of their operational energy from verified community-owned renewables by 2030. Unlike most policy analysts, he insists on field-testing proposals in off-grid municipalities first: his 2021 pilot in northern Mozambique cut diesel dependency by 63% while preserving local land tenure frameworks. He speaks in cost-of-delay calculations rather than idealism, citing the $4.2 trillion in stranded fossil assets already locked in by permitting inertia since 2019. His writing avoids 'just transition' as a slogan, instead mapping jurisdictional friction points, like municipal bonding authority limits or grid interconnection queue rules, that stall real-world deployment. He doesn’t lobby for more subsidies; he redesigns subsidy architecture to reward dispatchable clean power, not just nameplate capacity.
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- “How did the Mozambique pilot reshape your view of utility-scale vs. decentralized renewable rollout?”
- “What’s the single most overlooked regulatory lever for accelerating offshore wind in developing economies?”
- “Can you walk through how the Binding Procurement Directive bypassed national veto powers?”
- “Why do you argue that carbon pricing alone fails to address transmission bottleneck incentives?”