Clean Energy Finance Forum

This April 18 page tees up a series of features on resilience-focused microgrid development across the United States.

This March 10 op/ed takes oil and gas executives' paeans to the Inflation Reduction Act for a drive around the block.

A long November 17 audio report details one grant from a $350 million Federal batch to develop recycling and reuse of car batteries in a troubled Chicago neighborhood.

A plan to run nighttime power through pumped hydropower - make that "water batteries" in proponents' parlance - gets an October 14 nod from NPR.

This September 23 recap sees California's pressure-cooker heat wave as a preview of future perils facing the un-updated grid.

This op/ed from a professor begins with the familiar gambit about imagining California as its own country...and proceeds to invoke a California that runs entirely on clean energy from sun, wind and storage.

This April 26 radio story from Charlotte quotes an activist from a noted civil-rights family: "We understand that the climate crisis serves as a multiplier on the worst forms of disparity that we as a society have perfected."

Where will the startups and adopters and utilities find chemicals to build their batteries to meet the pledges to live in the world that decarbonization built? This January 26 rundown of a pending American law nods to key industries and regions.

Lithium-ion batteries are the world's most common kind. They're also the preferred kind by bidders in a recent contract with a California community provider, according to this January 20 story.

A developer with skin in the game (mostly) applauds an entirely bipartisan law that just passed in North Carolina to drive serious carbon reduction and solar + storage investment beginning next year. This October 12 op/ed deals in the blow-by-blow that led to success.