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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...

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.

An electron electoral map — This map, courtesy of marketer Solstice and adapted by Kevin Cellucci, shows how far community solar can grow.

Community solar developers have a compelling idea for how to extend renewable energy to people who can't install panels on their rooftops. They also face a series of questions. These include: how to coexist with utilities, and how to tie in to utilities' grids, and how to buy land, and...

The community-solar business model — This image from a community-solar vendor documents how individuals who normally can't access the solar market can build a revenue stream.

Community solar can provide more energy to more people - especially people currently shut out of the market for residential rooftop panels. Energy developers and marketplace makers have taken note of the potential for community solar programs to drive revenue- and the White House's promise to steer energy infrastructure toward...

How SunZia closes in on California — Drawing a line in the sand, SunZia worked for 14 years on its transmission progress.

When planning to decarbonize the grid, many analysts see transmission lines as analogous to "political will." It's necessary and it's rarely possible to summon it from scratch. In the Southwest, though, a private enterprise has pushed forward on work to deliver renewable power from a windy swath of New Mexico...

The parent company of renewable generator Avangrid has offered to buy PNM Resources, broadening its footprint from Texas to New Mexico. (Note: One of CBEY's team members has provided consulting services to Avangrid.)

"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.

Nevada lawmakers on May 23 passed legislation to modernize how electric utility rates are set, directing the Public Utilities Commission to develop regulations enabling a performance-based regime.

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.

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Explainer: How Do Public Policies Reinforce Building Electrification Financing (Part Two)?

Don't Wait for a Flooded Day to Cool the Roof: Commercial Real Estate Grows Up

Community Solar's Bend Toward Energy Justice, Episode Two: Utilities Push Back

How Strongly Can Community Solar Bend the Energy Market Toward Justice?

A Seriously Long-Term Investment: Inside SunZia's Transmission Adventure

A Bigger Footprint Across the Southwest

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

Nevada Follows Hawaii, Moves toward Performance-Based Ratemaking

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