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As innovation continues to redefine America’s power sector, century-old regulatory models are no longer serving advanced utilities or their customers. Performance-based ratemaking could be a game-changing solution for the utility industry. America’s Power Plan has a terrific new paper that…
Technological innovation and declining cost curves have allowed wind and solar power to become increasingly more competitive with fossil-fuel generation in recent years. However, in the past, there hasn’t been a cost-effective way to store the electricity being generated during…
This week, Energy Innovation released a paper outlining recommended policy upgrades for California’s climate and energy policy. The paper, titled “Carbon-Free Prosperity in California: Policies for Success,” was written by Energy Innovation’s CEO, Hal Harvey, and Director of Research, Chris Busch.
This year’s winter Olympics may unfortunately be one of the greatest opportunities to show a global audience the catastrophic impacts of climate change. The average February temperature in Sochi has been around 50 degrees F, making these Games easily the…
Revolutionary clean energy technologies often make headlines, but the nuts and bolts of supporting the scale-up of new technologies typically take a backseat. However, the emergence of new clean energy finance tools has begun to gain media, as well as…
In November 2013, the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication published a report on Americans’ sentiments regarding climate change. “Climate Change in the American Mind” reports how beliefs, emotions, and perceptions of global warming have changed over the last several…
2013 marks a year of countless climate and energy-related records for the United States. The release of the Fifth IPCC Assessment report this year noted that, for the first time, scientists are virtually certain (99-100% confident) that humans have caused…
A recent report by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) reveals that as much as 17 percent of existing coal-fired power in the United States is no longer cost-effective compared to existing natural gas. This adds up to 329 coal…
A recent report from CDP highlights 29 companies that are adjusting their business strategies to integrate the possibility of a future government-mandated price on carbon. More than half of the companies disclosed in this report come from the energy or…
This piece, written by Energy Innovation’s Director of Strategy, Sonia Aggarwal, was originally posted in America’s Power Plan’s blog page. Today, Peter Kind, author of last year’s Edison Electric Institute report, Disruptive Challenges: Financial Implications and Strategic Responses to a…
