Clean Energy Finance Forum

A local paper reports out a 20-mile transmission project now underway to stream renewable electricity, and quotes NextEra executives on the yawning need for new transmission across the United States.

In this June 21 dispatch, UD tells how New York State has approved a 135mw storage project in Queens and reset transmission cost models to consider capacity costs and expansion models.

Evidently too excited to wait for our explainer on the subject, Robert Downey Jr. tweeted bullishly about carbon removal recently. This March 21 story places the pronoucement in context.

A March 18 news item peeks at a New York lawmaker's plan to fund training, incentives, greenspace and other bricks in the climate-justice foundation.

This March 4 compression of a complex announcement outlines the play: major American city strikes deal with partnership among self-reinventing energy companies to use municipal land for building wind turbines and construction jobs.

Venture investors and auto-company directors rarely take strategic pointers from urban-planning activists. In light of this November 19 essay pinpointing electric SUVs' sustainability failings, perhaps they should.

In upstate New York, an aggregator called Joule demonstrates the unglamorous but inexorable logic of adding solar capacity under constraints, as this October 21 article details.

This June 8 article, riffing off an architectural association's awards, shows how green engineering can lower a building's energy cost and improve its returns.

Putting at least some grantmaking where its goals seem to lie, the Biden Administration has committed $19 million to universities for research into methods for extracting rare-earth minerals in places with a history of coal mining. Does this slide the puck toward a diverse economy in these communities?

New York’s Long Island Power Authority upped the incentives offered to community solar projects in its territory, providing some concessions to solar developers but ultimately falling short of what the industry said it needed to provide the certainty to finance projects there.