Lew Milford

Reduce Risk, Increase Clean Energy: How States and Cities are Using Old Finance Tools to Scale Up a New Industry

This paper identifies several financing strategies at the state and municipal level that can be adapted and implemented to accelerate the clean energy finance revolution in other states and cities, and at the federal level.

Clean Energy and Bond Finance Initiative: An Action Plan to Access Capital Markets

The objective of the Clean Energy + Bond Finance Initiative (CE+BFI) is to define and implement a new role for development finance in clean energy federalism, a potential game changer for scaling up clean energy capital in the country.

Leveraging State Clean Energy Funds for Economic Development

State clean energy funds have emerged as effective tools that states can use to accelerate the development of energy efficiency and renewable energy projects.

Strategies to Finance Large-scale Deployment of Renewable Energy Projects: An Economic Development and Infrastructure Approach

This document provides the context and describes some of the challenges that currently face the financing of large‐scale renewable energy deployments.

Moving Climate Innovation into the 21st Century: Emerging Lessons from other Sectors and Options for a New Climate Innovation Initiative

Based on lessons learned from nine case studies of existing international public- and private-sector technology and market development collaborations, the paper presents core principles and three options for a climate innovation initiative.

Innovation to Infrastructure: Clean Energy without Cap and Trade

This report recommends several novel energy strategies to advance emerging clean energy technologies that do not require major new federal legislation or more federal funding.

Accelerating Climate Technologies: Innovative Market Strategies to Overcome Barriers to Scale-Up

This report shows that successful climate technology innovation may come from where we least expect it – not from the private sector alone or from developed countries – but from emerging markets in developing economies.

Federal Climate and Energy Legislation and the States: Legislative Principles and Recommendations for a New Clean Energy Federalism

In this new report, Clean Energy Group recommends that Congress establish a new “Clean Energy Federalism” to expand the historic role of states to fund and deploy clean energy projects, create jobs, and grow the clean energy sector.

Climate Crash Course for Copenhagen: The Six Simple Reasons Why We Need Global Technology Collaboration

This brief 8-page document addresses the “why” of international technology collaboration — the basic reasons why global technology policies – for product development — beyond cap and trade are needed for stabilization.

Climate Technology Innovation: Picking Winners- Some Thoughts to Consider

This paper sets out some countervailing arguments that governments and other donors should not be in the business of picking winners. The authors argue that technology-based policy and incentives are needed to address long term climate stabilization.