Press Archive

The 7 Things Biden Should Do First To Tackle Climate Change

EI’s Sara Baldwin says accelerating emissions reductions and setting interim goals will be critical to achieving net zero emissions by 2050.

A Healthy China-U.S. Race On Environmental Protection Is Welcome

EI’s CEO Hal Harvey explains why China and the U.S. have an opportunity to collaborate on pathways to zero carbon buildings, industry, and transportation, and how to achieve carbon neutrality through international cooperation.

Joe Biden’s About to Floor It To A Green Future — Straight Into State Speed Traps

EI’s Mike O’Boyle says a federal clean energy standard provides the incentive to investors and developers to scale up renewable resources, which we need to do much faster to achieve a safe climate future.

Meet The ‘Hydrogen Home’: Is It Key To A 100% Clean Grid?

EI’s Jeff Rissman says because electrolyzers are expensive, and there needs to be more research and development to drive down their costs to get wider deployment, it makes more sense to prioritize green hydrogen use for industrial sectors as well as shipping and aviation, rather than buildings.

Southeastern Utilities Launch Plan For Regional Energy-Trading Market

EI research found an integrated wholesale market could yield $384 billion in economic savings and drive the development of 131 gigawatts of clean energy resources by 2040, while significantly reducing the amount of redundant capacity resources utilities will need to build.

How Biden Can Unleash 7.8 Trillion Investment and Create 6 Million Jobs By Expanding The Grid

EI’s Sarah Spengeman explains how a Biden administration can accelerate clean energy deployment, achieve climate goals, and create millions of new jobs by removing policy barriers to new transmission.

Report suggests West Virginia must embrace renewable energy for economic growth

EI analysis on the coal cost crossover is cited in an article discussing how improving renewable energy economics could save consumers money in West Virginia.

Near-Zero Industrial Emissions By 2050 Would Boost U.S. GDP 3.3%, Create 5 Million Jobs

EI’s Jeff Rissman explains how seven policies to achieve industry decarbonization by 2050 will also increase U.S. GDP 3.3% and create more than 5 million additional jobs by 2050.

Electric Vehicles And The Power Grid: Roadmaps From California And New York

EI’s Amanda Myers says vehicle-grid integration includes everything from managed charging and demand response to V2G and bidirectional charging, but underscoring it all is the need to accelerate electric vehicle adoption and charging build-out.

The Making of Biden’s Superfast Push for Clean Electricity

EI’s Sonia Aggarwal says the economics of renewables mean we can get to a 100 percent clean electricity grid much faster and cheaper than we thought.

‘Clean Products Standard’: A key To 100% Clean Energy?

EI’s Jeff Rissman says a technology-neutral clean products standard that allows companies to find innovative ways to produce a given material can maximize flexibility, and lead to investments in research and development that help the U.S. remain a technology leader.

How To Create An Easier Path To Climate Goals Through Electric Vehicles

EI’s Amanda Myers outlines how California can help the rest of the U.S. deploy electric vehicles by overcoming charging barriers for low-income and disadvantaged communities.

Report: Virginia’s 100% Clean Energy Law Insufficient To Tackle Climate Change

EI’s Robbie Orvis says policies to achieve deep decarbonization across the economy stimulate economic growth and create jobs, as demonstrated by modeling using the new Virginia Energy Policy Simulator.

Tallying Emissions Cuts From Virginia’s Clean Energy Plans

EI’s Robbie Orvis says one of the most significant policies Virginia could enact to deepen emissions reductions would be a zero-emissions vehicle sales standard similar to California’s, which essentially ends new gas-powered car sales by 2035.

Reaching Net Zero Emissions In Virginia Could Increase State GDP More Than $3.5 Billion Per Year

EI’s Silvio Marcacci says modeling shows a net zero policy pathway could increase Virginia’s GDP more than $3.5 billion per year by 2050.

Renewable Energy and Electric Vehicles: Policies to Solve Climate Change

EI’s Robbie Orvis explains how to cost-effectively design renewable energy and electric vehicle policies to drive deep emission reductions, providing examples of successful policies in Germany, Japan, and the United States.

The Coal Crossover with Eric Gimon

EI’s Eric Gimon explains the economics that make 75 percent of all existing coal plants in the United States more expensive to run than investing in new wind or solar, and how policies can support a rapid transition to 90 percent clean electricity by 2035.

CO2 Spike Looms As Biden Vows To Tackle Warming

EI’s Robbie Orvis says a new Biden Administration can use clean energy policies that reduce emissions to also create jobs and spur economic recovery.

Cut Carbon Emissions Everywhere (Starting With These Four Sectors)

EI’s Hal Harvey explains how we can meet the challenge of climate change with the same kind of major mobilization America has engaged in before, enacting strategic policies to decarbonize the grid while electrifying transportation, buildings, and industry.

Building Codes: A Powerful Yet Underused Climate Policy That Could Save Billions

EI’s Amanda Myers explains why building codes are a powerful tool for reducing building sector emissions, while helping drive economy-wide decarbonization, and highlights California’s upcoming opportunity to adopt an all-electric building code.