2 years at DOE - by Charles Yang - Rough Drafts

2 years ago, I quit my job at an AI startup to join the Department of Energy. Last week was my final week at DOE - more to come on whats next, but this is meant to serve as some public retrospective on my time there. A few of the more impactful things I did at DOE on supply chains and critical minerals: created the portfolio and allocation strategy for ~$10B in investment tax credits for clean energy manufacturing and critical materials. articulated DOE’s stance on the 45X production tax credit for critical minerals. The final IRS rulemaking adopted our position, effectively doubling the value of 45X for critical mineral processors (almost) created a critical material price support program1 In December 2023, DOE created a new coordination office for critical and emerging technologies, which included AI policy. A number of people around the building knew about my technical background in AI and so I got pulled in to help support this new office as well, where I: launched DOE’s Frontiers

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