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The MIT Energy Conference, which took place on March 3-4 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, explored the financial and social barriers to the major infrastructure projects that are required to support next-generation energy investments. Speakers analyzed the many changes that stakeholders face when they start expanding their use of renewable energy and...

Given the ongoing uncertainty about integrating renewable energy into the United States generation portfolio, investors will continue looking more and more to state governments and the private sector to lead the transition away from carbon-based fuels.

A July report by MIT Energy Initiative, “Venture and Cleantech: The Wrong Model for Clean Energy Innovation,” has compared the performance of venture capital (VC) in the software, medical and cleantech sectors. The results showed VC is not the right model for investments in the cleantech sector. Public funding...

Entrepreneurial advice from this March’s MIT Energy Conference is still full of insight for members of the solar energy industry a few months later. Key themes throughout the conference included the need for increased innovation, cheaper technology, and greater collaboration between companies, financiers and utilities.

Michael Bloomberg, CEO of Bloomberg LP, raised a provocative question at the 2016 Investor Summit on Climate Risk in New York City on Jan. 27. If certain states invest in clean energy proactively while others delay, will the slowest states experience an economic decline?

The attitude of speakers at the Secretary’s Climate and Clean Energy Investment Forum can be summarized in two words: guarded optimism. A conference hosted jointly by the United States Department of State, Google, and Georgetown University on Oct. 20-21, the forum focused on current and future efforts to funnel investments...

Until this year, no research had been published about how multifamily building owners across the United States can profitably install solar power and energy storage to make it possible for senior citizens and low-income apartment residents to survive extreme weather. Now, a new study from Clean Energy Group has revealed...

By January 2016, New York’s Westchester County will procure clean energy for around 75,000 of its residents, according to Glenn Weinberg, manager of special projects at Joule . Over 15 municipalities are banding together to aggregate their demand for cleaner power sources and lower their energy bills through competitive bidding...

In the United States, microgrids are concentrated in the Northeast, according to Katherine Tweed, a writer at Greentech Media. How can microgrids expand their footprint and reach other regions and cities?

In an interdisciplinary MIT study titled “The Future of Solar Energy,” leaders in technology, policy and economics evaluated multiple options for stimulating the United States solar industry. The authors asserted the current regime of subsidies at the federal, state and local levels is inefficient and has resulted in broad market...

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State Governments Can Emulate NY’s Energy Vision

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Advice for Solar Firms from the MIT Energy Conference

Will Regional Imbalances in Clean Energy Shape Our Economy?

Optimism at the Secretary’s Climate and Clean Energy Investment Forum

First Report on Multifamily Solar with Storage Shows Positive ROI

Clean-Energy Aggregation Opens States’ Imaginations

How Can Communities Finance Microgrids for Public Safety?

MIT Report Calls for Output-Based Solar Subsidies