"The promise of price stability amid a volatile market -- plus the need to meet green targets -- has given renewables a competitive edge over fossil fuels," says the reporter filing this December 10 story.
In this December 8 report, consultant Bruce Phillips and research scholar Dr. Melissa Lott show how corporations buy fossil supplies to fill gaps that renewables create, and how that practice can change. (Bruce, in his downtime, serves on CBEY's Advisory Board.)
A container ship on its way to a commercial port...or is it? (Photo by Ana Ulin, courtesy Creative Commons.)
With slowdowns affecting shipping and severe weather affecting demand, the price of natural gas soared and overwhelmed all other energy strategies across Asia and Europe this fall. The price crisis reveals how the world's decarbonizing economies remain tethered to fossil fuels and to the antidemocratic states that often control them...
Here's another broadly popular source of energy in Carmel, Indiana. (Photo courtesy Andy Montgomery via Creative Commons.)
The quick take says that Republicans dismiss the climate threat and refuse to see the upside in renewable energy. The deeper take shows more complexity and more finance for clean energy in ostensibly red states. Our reporter spoke with one Republican mayor to learn how solar, wind and efficiency can...
This August 11 analysis looks unblinkingly at the shaky equivalence between fossil fuel investments and offset projects. While those projects can form solution nodes, they can't cancel the carbon impact of new fossil supply, challenging investors to new diligence.
In June and July, we covered startups and accelerators as they work to nudge Indonesia's state-run utility. This July 17 roundup looks at how dormancy in Southeast Asia may be ending- and at the steep need for more capital and more deployment.
(Photo courtesy Yale Climate Connections.) China keeps using coal- but has today's coal crunch hastened the dirty fuel's decline?
More than a trillion dollars' worth of green bonds have found buyers around the world, but standards for defining what makes a bond green remain watery. How fast and how far can this technique extend before standards make it more reliably predictive of carbon savings- or before an investor loses...
United States Department of Energy Loan Program Office director Jigar Shah.
The federal Loan Program Office, within the Department of Energy, exists to help finance pioneering companies that can't yet draw hefty private capital. After a political upset sent the office into deep freeze, it revived in the past several years. Now, a new director with a reputation as an investor...
In New Jersey, there may be room for prioritizing both clean power and always-on power. (Courtesy NJ.gov)
Months after power supplies froze in Texas, rancor between fossil-fuel defenders and renewable advocates has yet to cool off. New Jersey's officials have been working to boost clean energy generation in the state without crimping the grid's reliability. A consulting firm's proposing a new kind of wholesale market to achieve...
When you fiddle with spreadsheet cells or engineering models all day in pursuit of clean energy, the sound of stasis can clang in your ears. So after local and national politicians blamed wind turbines for a power outage that interrupted water supplies and left people freezing for days across the...
