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On September 6, this story spotlighted utilities' shoddy record at restoring and sustaining electricity for low-income communities of color.

This July 14 nugget points up how anti-renewable state officials plan to pounce on the United States Supreme Court's recent ruling upending EPA regulations to squelch rules on disclosure of climate risk.

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...

Don't let the sun go down on price reliability, our author urges — (Photo by Don and Suzan Weller, via Flickr Creative Commons.) As the sun sets over Waterford, CT, an expert proposes a price floor in wholesale electricity markets.

As New England states progress towards decarbonization goals, the electricity spot market will see offers from solar and wind generators that incur no marginal cost. That can harm reliability and put some operators hastily out of business. To retain existing resources and the stability they bring, we need to set...

Utility Solar in Spotsylvania County VA — (Photo by Hugh Kenny, Piedmont Environmental Council.) A solar array in Virginia stands for the kinds of investment that could crowd in with a properly targeted federal carbon price.

Climate scientists in the latest Report warned that without immediate large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, climate change will cause devastating economic and human losses. Policymakers must come together to implement a comprehensive climate change strategy in the United States.

The Loan Program Office at the Department of Energy announces its first conditional commitment. If private investors also commit, a firm called Mammoth will expand production of hydrogen and carbon black, for agriculture and for hard-to-decarbonize manufacturing, from fossil gas.

In a December 2 news article, the local paper for a West Virginia city hands the mic to the head of the BlueGreen Alliance, who shares talking points for the clean manufacturing incentives in the Build Back Better bill.

This October 28 feature holds a wind project bound for Texas up to the light - and sees too much torpor in the progress of the United States' grid updating. (Do you see a theme here?)

We wrote last year about Beam, the startup with plans to run electric-vehicle charging stations on on-site solar and pay for itself with advertising. Amid a call for a national mandate that would electrify half of the United States' cars, Beam kept reporting orders from cities and ran a test EV aircraft flight. This July 17 TV dispatch offers some details.

Can these Louisiana workers find prosperity making offshore wind equipment? — Workers, investors and policymakers peer into the Gulf Coast's future. (Courtesy the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.)

Some have tried and none have managed to sync America’s clean energy ambitions with its fossil-based heritage through federal policy. The current administration is trying in many industries, including offshore wind manufacturing. That warrants a look at the Gulf Coast. Known as a longtime oil and gas cluster, the Gulf...

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