Eric Gimon

Senior Fellow

Eric Gimon consults as a technical expert, research scholar, and policy adviser with Energy Innovation, where he works with the Electricity team to develop innovative thinking on policy solutions for clean, reliable, and affordable electric power in the U.S. More specifically, Eric works on questions of renewable energy integration, both in the context of today’s challenges as well as for future pathways, with a current focus on electricity power markets. Eric holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University in mathematics and physics, as well as a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He had a 15-year active career as a researcher in quantum gravity and high energy physics in some of the world’s top research institutions. Eric’s work at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, as well as an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellowship with two offices at the Department of Energy inspired his transition to climate and energy policy.

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Works from Eric Gimon

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Meeting Growing Electricity Demand Without Gas

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The Tiniest Nuclear Reactors Are Untried, Untested, And Gaining Legions Of Fans

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45V Exemptions Need Strong Guardrails To Protect Climate, Grow Hydrogen Industry

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Biden’s Paradox: Can A Green Grid Coexist With Industrial Surge?

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Nuclear Fallout: Scrapped Reactors And Manchin’s Move

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Consumer Cost Impacts of 45V Rules

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The American Power System Is Changing. How Can Electricity Rates Keep Up?

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Thermal Batteries: Decarbonizing U.S. Industry While Supporting A High-Renewables Grid

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Thermal Batteries: Decarbonizing U.S. Industry While Supporting A High-Renewables Grid

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The Climate 202: How Hydrogen Subsidies Could Cause A 'Doom Loop' For The Climate

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Full Industrial Electrification Could More Than Double U.S. Power Demand. Here's How Renewables Can Meet It

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How Dueling PDFs Explain A Fight Over The Future Of The Grid

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In The Southeast, Where Big Utilities Rule, Calls For A Real Power Market Persist

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Smart Design Of 45V Hydrogen Production Tax Credit Will Reduce Emissions And Grow the Industry

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As California Grid Interconnection Requests Triple, Analysts Asses CAISO's Moves To Handle The Influx

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One State Generates Much, Much More Renewable Energy Than Any Other--And It's Not California

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When Is Hydrogen 'Clean'?

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Amid High Energy Prices, SCE VP, Other Experts Push To Reduce California's Reliance On Natural Gas

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Small Nuclear Reactors Could Help Recharge Heavy-Duty EVs

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Clean Energy Is Cheaper Than Coal Across The Whole US, Study Finds

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The Coal Cost Crossover 3.0

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Coal Cost Crossover 3.0: Local Renewables Plus Storage Create New Opportunities For Customer Savings And Community Reinvestment

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New Wind And Solar Are Cheaper Than The Costs To Operate All But One Coal-Fired Power Plant In The United States

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All U.S. Coal Plants Except 1 Are Less Economical Than Wind, Solar-- Researchers

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99 Percent Of Coal Plants Are More Expensive Than Renewables. A Coal-To-Clean Transition Is Worth $589 Billion, Mostly In Red States

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Renewables Projected To Soon Be One-Fourth Of Electricity Generation. Really Soon

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Tempered Techno-Optimism Is The Theme For 2023

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Nuclear Fusion Will Be A Gamechanger-- In The Future. Wind and Solar Are Critical Right Now

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Scientists Achieve Major Advance In Fusion Energy That Could Provide Clean, Carbon-Free Power

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The Power Grid Faced Heat Waves, Record Demand, And Tight Conditions In 2022. What Happens Next?

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Storage, Demand-Side Innovation, Neighbors, And A Bit Of Luck-- Reliability Lessons From Summer 2022

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Let's Get Organized! Long-Term Market Design For A High-Penetration Grid

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U.S. Green Hydrogen Hub Will Put Long-Haul Energy Storage To The Test

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How Utilities Can Harness Green Hydrogen Production's Flexibility In Balancing A High Renewables Grid

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California Can Reliably Hit 85% Clean Energy By 2030 Without Risking Any Outages-- En Route To A 100% Clean Grid

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Achieving 85 Percent Clean Electricity By 2030 In California

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Great River Energy Member Co-ops Should Say No To The Coal Creek Giveaway

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Sale of North Dakota’s Largest Coal Plant Is Almost Complete. Then Will Come the Hard Part.

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Market Design For The Energy Transition

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Natural Gas Prices Are Rising. Here’s Why That Helps the Cleanest (and Dirtiest) Electricity Sources

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Advancing The Energy Transition Requires An Honest Discussion Of Costs, Outages And Land, Analysts Say

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Fight Over ‘Peaker’ Plants Poses Grid Climate Test

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Biden’s American Jobs Plan Would Supercharge Our Grid Via Hundreds Of Thousands Of Jobs, Billions In Savings, And Increased Reliability Against Extreme Weather

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How America’s Coal Cost Crossover Supports An Ambitious Federal Clean Electricity Standard

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The Texas Big Freeze: Holistic Policy Design For A Clean And Resilient Grid

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The Texas Big Freeze: How Much Were Markets To Blame For Widespread Outages?

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The Texas Big Freeze: How A Changing Climate Pushed The State's Power Grid To The Brink

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Lessons From The Texas Big Freeze

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Texas Legislature Close To Approving Billions To Pay For Winter Storm Financial Fallout

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WV's Coal Economy Keeps Carbon Emissions Coming As Aging AEP Plants Near Compliance Crossroads

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Report: Wind, Solar Energy Cheaper Than Most Wisconsin Coal Plants

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Coal Is Losing The Price War To Wind And Solar Faster Than Anticipated

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The Coal Cost Crossover 2.0

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Replacing Coal Plants With Renewables Is Cheaper 80% of the Time

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Solar And Wind’s Competitiveness Over Coal Is Accelerating, Analysis Shows

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Pricey Lumps Of Coal

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Only 20% Of U.S. Coal Will Survive Past 2025 — Report

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One of the Country’s 10 Largest Coal Plants Just Got a Retirement Date. What About the Rest?

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Groups Launch Push To Speed Reliable, Decarbonized Power Market Designs

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Warren Buffett’s Firm Is Proposing An $8 Billion Boondoggle To Prevent The Next Texas Blackout

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Biden Climate Goals Mean Conflict With Natural Gas, The Resource Behind Recent Emissions Reductions

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An Efficient Energy Markets Cascade

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Let’s Get Organized! Long-Term Market Design for a High Penetration Grid

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The Energy Storage Boom Has Arrived

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The Coal Crossover with Eric Gimon

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Pathways to 100 Percent Zero Carbon Power by 2035 Without Increasing Customer Costs

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How To Reform California’s Inadequate Resource Adequacy Regime

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Why The Clean Energy Industry Should Be Interested In Resource Adequacy

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Biden’s Big Climate Decision: Will He Embrace His Task Force’s Goals?

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As Utilities Tackle Immediate COVID-19 Impacts, Analysts Stress Need To Focus Beyond The Pandemic

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The Western U.S. Has Some Of America’s Strongest Clean Energy Goals. It Needs More Grid Flexibility To Achieve Them.

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Increasing Renewables And DER Demand New Reliability Approach, But California Is Falling Short, Groups Say

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How To Design A Market For High Renewables Grid

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How We Need To Evolve America’s Power Grid To Enable A Clean Energy Future

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Overcoming Barriers to 100% Clean Energy, Part Two: How We Need to Evolve America’s Power Grid to Enable a Clean Energy Future.

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ERCOT’s Wild Summer Is Over. Solar Looks Like The Winner

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Wholesale Electricity Market Design For Rapid Decarbonization: Adding New Long-Term Markets To Today's Spot Markets

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Overcoming Barriers To 100% Clean Energy, Part One: The Electricity Distribution Network

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Securitization Fever: Renewables Advocates Seize Wall Street's Innovative Way To End Coal

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Can This Online Startup Change How Companies Buy Renewable Power?

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With Wind And Solar Costs Dropping, U.S. Enters ‘Coal Cost Crossover’

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U.S. Enters ‘Coal Cost Crossover’ Thanks To Falling Solar, Wind Costs

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74% Of U.S. Coal Plants Are "Walking Dead" Thanks To Cheaper Renewables

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The Coal Cost Crossover: Economic Viability Of Existing Coal Compared To New Local Wind And Solar Resources

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More bad news for coal: Wind and solar are getting cheaper

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'Coal is on the way out': study finds fossil fuel now pricier than solar or wind

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Report: Nearly 75% Of US Coal Plants Uneconomic Compared To Local Wind, Solar

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Report: Local Wind And Solar Plants Beat Out Majority of US Coal Plants On Cost

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Analysis: New Wind, Solar Cheaper Than Operating Most Existing Coal Plants

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Most U.S. Coal Plants Would Save Money By Switching To Wind Or Solar

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Shutting Down Almost Every Coal Plant And Swapping For Renewables Would Save Money, Report Finds

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New Wind And Solar Power Is Cheaper Than Existing Coal In Much Of The U.S., Analysis Finds

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Hungry For Green Power, Tech Giants Choose Between Utilities, Independent Developers

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Inertia, Frequency Regulation, And The Grid

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Behind-The-Meter Energy Storage Surges Ahead Of Utility-Operated Batteries

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As Corporate Renewable Buying Surges, Innovative PPAs Pressure Utilities To Improve Green Tariffs

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Trending Topics - How Market Rules Are Holding Back Energy Storage

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How Market Rules Are Holding Back Energy Storage

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Colo. Lawmaker Proposes Low-Cost Bonds To Make Retiring Coal Plants Easier

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Capacity Pricing Changes: How Each Power Market Plans To Account For Resource Adequacy

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New Microsoft Contract Could Expand Corporate Renewable Energy Deals To Smaller Buyers

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PJM Doubling Down On The Wrong Capacity Solution

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Two Ways Energy Storage Will Be A True Market Disruptor In The U.S. Power Sector

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California’s Solar And Wind Integration Challenge

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Three Ways Energy Storage Can Generate Revenue In America's Organized Power Markets

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Trending Topics - ERCOT’s Summer Peak Demand Forecast: New Investment, Generator Profits, No Blackouts

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ERCOT’s Summer Peak Demand Forecast: New Investment, Generator Profits, No Blackouts

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Synergy Or Conflict? EVs And Solar

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Renewables And Grid Stability Go Hand In Hand

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The Energy Transition Show: Ask Eric

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Bitcoin Mining's Energy Use Won't Eat The World - If Prices Stay Below 19% Annual Growth

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The Planet And Youth: What Climate Change Means For Your Life

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Trending Topics - Flexibility, Not Resilience, Is Key to Wholesale Electricity Market Reform

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Flexibility, Not Resilience, Is The Key To Wholesale Electricity Market Reform

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Coal Plant Retirements Create Opportunity For Solar In Texas

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Carbon Rule Or Not, Wind Energy Continues To Squeeze Coal

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How Developers, Governments, And Investors Can Avoid Hidden Risk From Inaccurate Solar Projections

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On Market Designs for a Future with a High Penetration of Variable Renewable Generation

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Could Success Spoil ISO-NE?

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Center of the storm: PJM CEO Andy Ott on power market reforms for turbulent times

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As Beijing Joins Climate Fight, Chinese Companies Build Coal Plants

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The state of wholesale power markets: What's wrong with proposed changes in Eastern RTOs?

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How a Cold Day in Texas Exposed the Value of Grid Flexibility

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New Financial Tools Proposed In Colorado Could Solve Coal Retirement Conundrum

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PEC Decarb Conference: Renewable Energy

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A Guide to the Debate Over Closing Nuclear Plants

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Three Investor Strategies For Energy Storage's Exponential Growth

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Texas Regulators Saved Customers Billions by Avoiding a Traditional Capacity Market

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Is the Transmission Grid Ready for Aggregated Distributed Energy Resources?

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A customer-centric view of electricity service

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How much do combined cycle natural gas plants really need to be paid?

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After Paris: The State of America’s Electricity Sector Emissions Headed Into 2016

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The Future of Demand Response Without FERC Order 745

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A Tale of Two Regions: Why Wind Is Booming in Texas and Stalling in the West

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Driving Blind: The Worst Examples of Outdated Data Skewing Renewable Energy Projections

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Five trends transforming your electricity

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Renewables Curtailment: What we can Learn from Grid Operations in California and the Midwest

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Natural Gas versus Coal: Is Natural Gas Better for the Climate?

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A New Approach to Capabilities Markets: Seeding Solutions for the Future