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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...

This November 2 forecast of a referendum in Maine spells out the decarbonization case for and political case against a hydropower project. (Voters spurned the project on Election Day.)

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?)

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...

"The way Westar Energy runs its coal plants in Kansas unnecessarily costs consumers millions of dollars a year through an obscure, if common, practice known as self-committing generation."

A study examining the impact on property values where commercial wind farms have gone up in Kansas found no statistically significant changes in aggregate rural home values in a county within the three years of a wind development.

In January 2019, the District of Columbia passed the most ambitious clean energy legislation in the nation. However, local climate activists say the hard work is just beginning — they want to know who will lead the DC and whether the law will benefit the least-privileged residents of the District.

Some residents are concerned about environmental impacts from proposed transmission lines.

Georgia’s Debbie Dooley is a founding member of the Tea Party movement, as well as an advocate for renewable energy and president of Conservatives for Energy Freedom. In an interview with CEFF, Dooley discussed where alternative energy can fit into a conservative political philosophy, how to build bipartisan support for...

More than a dozen states are adopting “community solar” programs that are bringing solar power and lower energy bills to low-income households from New York to California.

Clean Energy Finance Forum

Policy Memo: How We Pay For Free Electricity

Did a Transmission Breakthrough Just Slip on a Banana?

Transmission Trouble Touches Texas- and Taints the Whole American Economy

Big, But Not Easy: Can Offshore Wind Spark Economic Transformation in the Gulf Coast?

Report: Kansas Utilities Run Coal Plants Year-Round Even Though It Costs Ratepayers Millions

Study: Wind Farms Don't Appear to Impact a County's Aggregate Rural Home Values

DC Passed the Most Ambitious Clean Energy Law in the U.S. Now What?

Effort to Trade Gas for Hydropower in Northeast Meets Resistance

Debbie Dooley on the Conservative Case for Clean Energy

Energy Equity: Bringing Solar Power to Low-Income Communities