Power 100

The 100 most influential digital voices in US clean energy, ranked algorithmically.

Last updated: Week 14, 2026

How it works: Weighted LeaderRank methodology

Rankings are computed using Weighted LeaderRank (Li et al., Physica A, 2014), a variant of PageRank designed for social influence networks. The algorithm measures who influences the conversation based on real engagement patterns — not follower counts.

Input signals: Twitter replies/quotes/retweets, LinkedIn comments, Bluesky engagement, podcast guest appearances (editorial endorsement), and conference speaking invitations. Platform budgets are normalized so no single platform dominates.

1▲1

Jesse Jenkins

Associate Professor of Energy Policy at Princeton University

Research

2▼1

Jigar Shah

Former DOE LPO Director; Part-time Partner at Powerhouse Ventures; Co-Founder of Multiplier; Co-Host of Open Circuit and Energy Empire podcasts

Policy

3▲2

Shayle Kann

Managing Partner at Energy Impact Partners

Capital

Tyler Norris

Head of Market Innovation on Google Advanced Energy team; TIME100 Climate 2025

Projects

5▲6

Michael Liebreich

Founder of BloombergNEF; host of Cleaning Up podcast

Media

6▲6

Nico Johnson

Founder & Host, SunCast Podcast; Clean Energy Investor & Executive Coach

Media

7▲12

Laurent Segalen

Clean energy investor; co-host of Redefining Energy

Capital

8▼5

Michael Thomas

Founder of Clearview and Distilled; clean energy investigator

Technology

David Roberts

Energy journalist and host of the Volts podcast

Media

10▲5

Emily Kirsch

Founder of Powerhouse; host of Watt It Takes

Capital

11▲5

Jane Flegal

Director of the Searchlight Institute

Policy

12▲66

Joel Jean

CEO and Co-Founder of Swift Solar

Projects

13▲19

Brian Janous

Co-Founder and CCO of Cloverleaf Infrastructure

Projects

14▼6

Aniruddh Mohan

Energy Associate at The Brattle Group; Former Princeton Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow

Technology

15▲6

Doug Lewin

President of Stoic Energy; host of Energy Capital podcast

Media

16▼2

Shanu Mathew

SVP, Portfolio Manager/Analyst on US Sustainable Equity at Lazard Asset Management

Capital

17▲32

Rob Gramlich

President of Grid Strategies; Co-Founder of Americans for a Clean Energy Grid

Projects

18▼1

Stephen Lacey

Co-Founder and Executive Editor of Latitude Media

Media

19▼9

Alfred Johnson

Co-Founder and CEO of Crux Climate

Capital

20▲18

Saul Griffith

Founder of Rewiring America; author and inventor

Policy

21▲1

Robinson Meyer

Founding Executive Editor, Heatmap News; Co-Host, Shift Key

Media

22▲1

Jason Bordoff

Founding Director of Columbia CGEP; host of Columbia Energy Exchange

Research

23▲1

Zeke Hausfather

Climate Research Lead at Stripe; research scientist at Berkeley Earth

Research

24▲9

Amanda Peterson Corio

Global Head of Data Center Energy at Google; leads power procurement and energy infrastructure for Google data centers

Projects

25▼19

Richard Matsui

Founder, NewCo IPP

Capital

26▲3

Dana Guernsey

Co-Founder and CEO of Voltus; leading virtual power plant technology company

Projects

27▲7

Travis Kavulla

Head of Policy at Base Power Company; Former VP Regulatory Affairs at NRG; Former Montana PUC Chairman

Policy

28▲11

Michael Lee

Writer, Distributed Grid; Former CEO, Octopus Energy US

Technology

29▼11

Todd Alexander

Partner at Norton Rose Fulbright; host of NRF Currents

Media

30▼4

Azeem Azhar

Founder of Exponential View

Technology

31▼11

John Arnold

Co-Chair, Arnold Ventures; Co-Founder & Chairman, Grid United; Board, Breakthrough Energy Ventures

Capital

32▼25

Melanie Nakagawa

Chief Sustainability Officer, Microsoft; Former White House NSC Senior Director for Climate & Energy

Technology

33NEW

Jennifer Granholm

Senior Counselor, DGA Group; Former U.S. Secretary of Energy; Board, Edison International

Policy

34▲36

John Hanger

Former PA PUC Commissioner and DEP Secretary

Policy

35NEW

Simon Mahan

Executive Director of Southern Alliance for Clean Energy

Policy

36▲1

Sarah Kapnick

Global Head of Climate Advisory at J.P. Morgan

Research

37▲34

John Bistline

Research Scientist in Energy Systems and Climate Analysis at EPRI

Technology

38▼11

Tim Latimer

Co-Founder and CEO of Fervo Energy

Technology

39▼14

Ramez Naam

Author and clean energy investor

Media

Abigail Ross Hopper

Former President and CEO of SEIA

Projects

41▲26

Drew Savicki

Grid, energy, and political analyst

Media

42▲9

Sean Casten

Current U.S. Representative for Illinois 6th Congressional District; clean energy entrepreneur

Policy

43▼2

Miranda Ballentine

Former CEO of Clean Energy Buyers Alliance

Policy

44▲14

Sammy Roth

Energy Reporter, Los Angeles Times

Media

45▲3

Sheldon Kimber

Founder and CEO of Intersect Power

Projects

46NEW

Andres Gluski

President and CEO of AES Corporation

Projects

Allison Clements

Former FERC Commissioner; Principal at 804 Advisory

Policy

48NEW

Doreen Harris

President & CEO, NYSERDA

Policy

49▼36

Julia Pyper

VP Public Affairs, GoodLeap; Host & Creator, Political Climate Podcast

Policy

50▼5

Lauri Myllyvirta

Lead Analyst at Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air

Media

51▲6

Kim Zou

CEO of Sightline Climate

Capital

52▼10

Dan Stein

Co-Founder and Executive Director of Giving Green; evidence-based climate philanthropy

Policy

53NEW

Isabelle Boemeke

Nuclear energy advocate and influencer

Technology

54▼24

Casey Handmer

Founder and CEO of Terraform Industries

Technology

55▲31

Mark Z. Jacobson

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford

Research

56▼4

Julian Spector

Senior Reporter, Canary Media

Media

57▼26

Kate Brandt

Chief Sustainability Officer, Google; Former Federal Chief Sustainability Officer

Policy

58▼12

Emily Grubert

Associate Professor at University of Notre Dame

Research

59NEW

Michael Cembalest

Chairman of Market and Investment Strategy at J.P. Morgan

Capital

60▲24

Amy Harder

National Energy Correspondent, Axios; Journalism Fellow, University of Chicago

Media

61▲7

Deb Haaland

Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior

Policy

62▲19

Arushi Sharma Frank

Founder & CEO, Luminary Strategies; Senior Advisor, Emerald AI; CSIS Senior Associate

Technology

63▲16

Fatih Birol

Executive Director, International Energy Agency (IEA)

Policy

64▼28

Michael Skelly

Co-Founder and CEO of Grid United

Projects

65NEW

Scott Clavenna

Co-Founder & CEO, Latitude Media; Founder, Greentech Media

Media

66NEW

Andy Lubershane

Partner & Head of Research, Energy Impact Partners; Author, Steel For Fuel

Capital

67▼13

Varun Sivaram

Founder & CEO, Emerald AI; Former DOE Chief Commercialization Officer

Technology

68▲20

Nat Bullard

Co-Founder, Halcyon; Senior Contributor, BloombergNEF

Media

69▲23

Nan Ransohoff

Head of Climate, Stripe; Founder, Frontier

Technology

70▼20

John Kemp

Senior Energy Analyst and Columnist at Reuters

Media

71▼7

Dan Yergin

Vice Chairman of S&P Global; Pulitzer Prize-winning energy author

Projects

72▼6

Katharine Hayhoe

Chief Scientist at The Nature Conservancy

Research

73NEW

Rich Dovere

Founder & CEO, Dispatch Energy

Capital

74▼18

Michael Terrell

Global Head of Advanced Energy, Google; Board Chair, CEBA

Technology

75▼47

Yann Brandt

President & CEO, FTC Solar; Managing Editor, SolarWakeup

Projects

76NEW

Farhad Billimoria

Energy systems researcher at Oxford

Research

77▼15

Bill McKibben

Founder of 350.org and Third Act; climate author and activist

Policy

78▼15

Duncan Campbell

VP Data Center Solutions at Scale Microgrids

Projects

79▼3

Leah Stokes

Professor at UC Santa Barbara; climate policy researcher

Research

80▲15

Ari Peskoe

Director of the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard

Research

81NEW

Peter Davidson

CEO & Founder, Aligned Climate Capital; Former Executive Director, DOE Loan Programs Office

Capital

82▼27

Wilson Ricks

Energy systems researcher at Princeton and CATF

Research

83NEW

Jeh Vevaina

Managing Partner and Global CIO of Energy at Brookfield

Capital

84NEW

Sam Calisch

Head of Special Projects, Rewiring America; Founder & CEO, Copper

Technology

85NEW

Cully Cavness

Co-Founder, President & Chief Strategy Officer, Crusoe

Technology

86▲1

Jason Grumet

CEO of American Clean Power Association

Policy

87▼13

Chris Crosby

CEO of Compass Datacenters

Projects

88NEW

Caroline Golin

Co-Host of Open Circuit; Founder of Envision Energy Advisors

Technology

89▲8

Peter Kalmus

Climate Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Author, Being the Change; Climate activist (@ClimateHuman)

Projects

90▼55

Brandon Hurlbut

Co-Founder & Partner, Boundary Stone Partners; Co-Host, Political Climate Podcast

Policy

91▼47

Jason Kaminsky

CEO & Co-Founder, kWh Analytics

Capital

92NEW

Judy Chang

Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC); Former Undersecretary of Energy, Massachusetts

Policy

93NEW

Jonathan Silver

Co-Founder, Multiplier (with Jigar Shah); Chair Global Sustainability, Apollo; Former DOE LPO Director

Capital

94▼19

Kevin Book

Managing Director at ClearView Energy Partners

Policy

95▼26

Mary Powell

CEO and Director of Sunrun

Projects

96▼14

Cindy Taff

CEO of Sage Geosystems

Technology

97NEW

Noah Kaufman

Senior Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia SIPA; Former White House CEA Economist

Research

98NEW

Julien Jomaux

EU Energy Pricing Analyst; Clean energy data visualization

Media

99▼16

Lara Pierpoint

Partner at Energy Impact Partners

Capital

100NEW

Shashank Samala

CEO & Co-Founder, Heirloom Carbon Technologies

Technology

About this ranking: The DealFlow Power 100 identifies the most digitally influential voices in US clean energy based on algorithmic analysis of public social media engagement, podcast guest appearances, and conference participation. It does not measure institutional power, deal size, or policy impact. Rankings refresh weekly.