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Utilities Running Uneconomic Coal Plants Cost Consumers $3.5 Billion From 2015-2017
EI's Mike O'Boyle interviews authors of a Sierra Club report on how utilities running uneconomic coal plants have overcharged customers by $3.5 billion.
Hal Harvey’s Insights And Updates: Getting To Net Zero Emissions In The United States
A substantial new update to Energy Innovation’s peer-reviewed Energy Policy Simulator reveals which policies can reach net zero emissions in the United States, and what they mean for our economy.
Utility Monopsony Regulation: What’s Behind Low-Cost Wind And Solar Bids In Colorado?
Utilities can be regulated to address their monopsony market power so that competitive solicitations result in many bidders and low prices for generation projects, creating benefits for consumers and utility shareholders. This brief highlights lessons from Colorado’s experience leveling the playing field to ensure competitive bid results in the state are achievable as part of the financial transition away from uneconomic coal generation.
Battery prices are crashing. That’s good news.
EI's Sonia Aggarwal explains how falling battery prices will make the technology cost effective for new applications on NPR's Marketplace podcast.