EI’s Dan Esposito says the combined benefits of a clean electricity standard are so enormous that adopting a clean electricity standard would amount to a no regrets energy policy.

EI’s Chris Busch says China’s new carbon market could help reduce the friction a border adjustment might cause by providing a natural policy lever for China to clean up its industrial sectors and increase harmonization between China and the E.U. on climate.

EI’s Chris Busch explains why the American Jobs Plan’s smart investments in domestic manufacturing would re-establish the U.S. as the world’s top electric vehicle exporter while creating millions of quality jobs.

EI’s Dan Esposito calls for using all-source procurement, a competitive process in which utilities specify certain demand and reliability benchmarks over a given time period and the market dictates what technology and costs are needed to meet them, creating the opportunity for cleaner and cheaper resources to win out in the end.

EI’s Jeff Rissman says the process being used by the Swedish company HYBRIT is not the only way to make zero-carbon steel, and there is promising research being done on other approaches.

EI’s Mike O’Boyle says the job of a utility regulator is to ensure that utilities do what they say and to hold them accountable to do things that you believe are in the public interest.

EI analysis finds all but one of Colorado’s seven coal power plants are less cost effective than new local wind and solar power, meaning utility customers in Colorado are overpaying.

EI analysis with RMI using the Colorado Energy Policy Simulator shows estimated actual greenhouse gas reductions in Colorado will only total 3.4 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

EI research finds applying incentives to used electric vehicles, as some of California’s programs do, can also allow families receiving the high end of the state’s incentives to save 30 to 40 percent on ownership costs compared to the purchase of a comparable used gas car for certain model years.

EI consultant Ron Lehr says utilities may favor capital investments with guaranteed returns from assets they can own, but contracts for renewables without that financial incentive to the utility may be better for their customers.