Clean Energy Finance Forum

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.

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.

Seven states – Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, South Carolina, and Vermont – have enacted legislation to promote pollinator-friendly solar development. A new white paper by the Clean Energy States Alliance provides an overview of these state efforts and offers suggestions for what other states can do to promote solar while also creating or preserving healthy habitats for pollinators.

The New York Public Service Commission directed the state's energy development authority to offer additional financial options beyond traditional fixed-price contracts when soliciting bids to build renewable energy projects.