(he/him) Uday Varadarajan is a senior principal in the Carbon-Free Electricity Practice at RMI and a precourt energy scholar at the Sustainable Finance Initiative (SFI) at Stanford University, where he applies cutting edge data and analytics to develop new approaches to achieve an affordable and fair transition to zero-carbon energy system. His team’s work helped catalyze the development and passage of just transition financing bills in 10 coal-heavy states and spurred the inclusion of key changes to federal tax incentives and the inclusion of over $260 billion in financing programs in the Inflation Reduction Act that could enable a more just and equitable transition.