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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. 

Policy Memo: How We Pay For Free Electricity

Mike Novello
March 15, 2022
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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...
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Did a Transmission Breakthrough Just Slip on a Banana?

November 05, 2021
Source: Boston.com
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.)
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Transmission Trouble Touches Texas- and Taints the Whole American Economy

October 29, 2021
Source: E & E News
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.)

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

Tyler Clevenger
May 06, 2021
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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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Low-Income Kentucky Families Get Shares in Solar Field

January 13, 2020
Source: Houston Chronicle
Louisville Gas and Electric's solar share program allows ratepayers to purchase a share of a large solar field and get a credit on their utility bills for the solar energy the share generates, WKYU-FM reports.
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Cities Pressure TVA to Boost Renewable Energy as Memphis Weighs Breaking Away

May 29, 2019
Source: InsideClimate News
The city's municipal utility, the Tennessee Valley Authority's largest customer, has launched a study to explore whether it can save money by breaking away from TVA, possibly by developing or buying renewable energy sources like solar and wind.
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DC Passed the Most Ambitious Clean Energy Law in the U.S. Now What?

May 29, 2019
Source: Greater Greater Washington
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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Effort to Trade Gas for Hydropower in Northeast Meets Resistance

May 29, 2019
Source: Scientific American
Some residents are concerned about environmental impacts from proposed transmission lines.
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Debbie Dooley on the Conservative Case for Clean Energy

Chris Lewis
May 15, 2019
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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...
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Energy Equity: Bringing Solar Power to Low-Income Communities

April 18, 2019
Source: Yale Environment 360
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.

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