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Power Outages and Natural Disasters: Which Ones are Avoidable?
Another storm and millions lose power. It’s a familiar story, in this era of more severe and unusual weather events.
Read MoreState Support for Clean Energy Jobs: A Way to Avoid Congressional Gridlock and Unlock the Job Creation Engine
Obama should look to states for clean energy jobs as a way to avoid Congressional gridlock and controversies, and unlock the job creation engine at the local level.
Read MoreSolyndra, Solar Panels and Supersonic Planes: What’s the Difference if One Fails?
Recently, the US government lost a few hundred million dollars on a new investment in a failed technology. But no one seemed to notice.
Read MoreFuel Cells for Supermarkets
Supermarkets are turning out to be an important early market for stationary fuel cells.
Read MoreDebt Deal Puts States Back in the Clean Energy Driver’s Seat
The recent debt ceiling deal announced this week means two things for clean energy. One, forget Washington as a source of significant new funding and programs for a long time. Two, look once again to the states to keep momentum on clean energy alive.
Read MoreOffshore 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.
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