This February 7 story tracks 100,000 announced hires to incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act, with tens of thousands in states whose senators voted against the bill.
On August 4, the publication quoted an Arizona bigshot supporting the climate bill currently before the Senate as catalytic for utility profits. A day later, Arizona's senior senator announced her support for the bill.
This July 24 nugget from a states-focused site declares "the state and local climate candidate" ascendant, with implications for public and private financial growth. (By way of disclosure, CEFF's editor has led a volunteer workshop for some Climate Cabinet candidates, not including the one this story profiles.)
The United States' Bureau of Land Management, says this July 16 story, approved a transmission line between Arizona and southern California that should support delivery of more renewable energy to those overheated markets.
This May 2 story ponders how extract can again wreak undue harms on tribal nations if the United States government mines uranium from those nations in a bid to squeeze Russia.
Each building owner, with a team of investors, needs to work out a particular electrification schedule. Broad public policies, though, can advance new technologies or marketing strategies that can help more buildings go electric sooner. This sequel to our earlier explainer sets out some scalable policies from across the United...
Activists in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood have explored whether Clean Peak Standards can address air quality and energy inequity. (Photo by Victoria Belanger via Flickr Creative Commons.)
One state has tried requiring power at peak demand periods to come from clean sources. This mandate can improve air quality in low-income communities. Critics question its effect on emissions, though, and its optimal design as clean-energy storage for utilities evolves.
(Courtesy Governor Phil Murphy's Flickr account.) A new capacity market framework for PJM could make offshore wind from this segment of New Jersey more competitive more quickly.
Now, to advance the buildout of renewable energy, FERC should set a process and timeframe for adopting a new market structure. That structure should be adaptable and transparent, advance state offshore wind policy goals, meet consumer clean energy and equity goals, and maintain reliability.
