Clean Energy Finance Forum

How do electric vehicles create value without consuming their own ecological value chain? This May 3 blog post from the Davos gang offers thumbnails of five outfits working on car-battery recycling. It includes the United States' Department of Energy and a WEF-sponsored group.

This story from Kansas, posted May 5, pries into the gap between what utilities have promised to capitalize and how slowly many seem to be doing it.

Putting at least some grantmaking where its goals seem to lie, the Biden Administration has committed $19 million to universities for research into methods for extracting rare-earth minerals in places with a history of coal mining. Does this slide the puck toward a diverse economy in these communities?

One troublesome long-term issue from Texas' Valentine's Day power collapse involved officials' rapid readiness to falsely blame wind power for the fiasco. This April 28 story summarizes a study by ERCOT which found that the freezing of natural gas supplies accounted for a much bigger share of failure in the lethal outages.

Stop me if you've heard this one: A utility wants to cap the rate at which solar owners can feed power back to the grid, and a putatively "red" state accommodates the solar users in the name of prosperity and competitiveness. It's happening again in South Carolina, with some complications ahead, per this April 29 story.