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Offshore Wind and Economic Development: How Utility Law Could Help
It is hard to imagine a new angle on the beleaguered Cape Wind project. Everything from its rich opponents, to the Kennedys, to the local Indian tribes has been the subject of endless news stories.
Read MoreExtreme Weather and Power Outages: Distributed Clean Power Can Meet Emergency Needs
The tornadoes in the South and Midwest this spring, the recent unprecedented fires in the Southwest and the floods across the country once again showed how fragile our electric grid is and how dependent we are on it for our basic services.
Read MoreIs the Fuel Cell Roller Coaster Heading Up or Down?
Few clean energy technologies have seen sharper swings in their perceived appeal and popularity than fuel cells.
Read MoreStates and Clean Energy Economic Development
For the last decade, clean energy projects like wind, solar, and biomass have proliferated across the United States.
Read MoreTurning Climate Tech Transfer on its Head
This week we released a new report on global climate innovation – the lessons learned from global innovation initiatives in other areas to create new directions for climate technology innovation, especially in developing countries.
Read MorePicking Nuclear, Picking a Winner?
In my recent post, I tried to counter the myth that the government should not be in the business of “picking winners,” a charge leveled against some recent Obama Administration energy proposals.
Read MorePicking Winners or Losers
Recently, some members of Congress criticized Energy Secretary Chu for “picking winners’ through his research and development programs like ARPA-E.
Read MoreThe Weakest Link in the Nuclear Chain
The reason the damaged nuclear plants in Japan could not retain power to cool the reactors or the spent fuel rods in holding tanks after the tsunami in March was because the backup power systems failed.
Read MoreInnovation to Infrastructure: Clean Energy Without Cap and Trade
With the failure of cap and trade in Washington and in international negotiations, it is time for a new strategy: clean energy pragmatism.
Read MoreOpen Those Energy Innovation Doors
Most of the discussion about the recently released Kerr-Lieberman climate bill is missing a key element — how to do real energy technology innovation.
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