Renewable Costs Have Risen: Policymakers Can Help Reserve The Inflationary Blip

EI’s Mike O’Boyle discusses how inflation has hit renewable energy, but the factors driving price increases are temporary, and fossil fuels are still more expensive.

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. The research synopsis below comes from AGCI’s Emilio Mateo. A full list of AGCI’s updates is available online.  Mountain glaciers and polar ice caps are experiencing extensive and increasingly fast loss rates as global temperatures warm. The well-documented retreat of … Continued

EI’s Sara Baldwin discusses how grid reliability requires collaborative research and integrated adoption in order for the United States to transition efficiently to electricity.

This post is the second in a series titled “Real Talk on Reliability,” which will examine the reliability needs of our grid as we move toward 100 percent clean electricity and electrify more end-uses on the path to a climate stable future. It was written by Sara Baldwin, senior director of the Electrification Program at … Continued