Clean Energy Finance Forum

A local paper reports out a 20-mile transmission project now underway to stream renewable electricity, and quotes NextEra executives on the yawning need for new transmission across the United States.

In this June 21 dispatch, UD tells how New York State has approved a 135mw storage project in Queens and reset transmission cost models to consider capacity costs and expansion models.

Evidently too excited to wait for our explainer on the subject, Robert Downey Jr. tweeted bullishly about carbon removal recently. This March 21 story places the pronoucement in context.

A March 18 news item peeks at a New York lawmaker's plan to fund training, incentives, greenspace and other bricks in the climate-justice foundation.

In upstate New York, an aggregator called Joule demonstrates the unglamorous but inexorable logic of adding solar capacity under constraints, as this October 21 article details.

A Massachusetts Senate proposal to set aside funding for solar projects in low-income neighborhoods will do little to improve access without bigger changes to the state’s solar incentive program, advocates say.

Seven states – Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, South Carolina, and Vermont – have enacted legislation to promote pollinator-friendly solar development. A new white paper by the Clean Energy States Alliance provides an overview of these state efforts and offers suggestions for what other states can do to promote solar while also creating or preserving healthy habitats for pollinators.

The New York Public Service Commission directed the state's energy development authority to offer additional financial options beyond traditional fixed-price contracts when soliciting bids to build renewable energy projects.

New York State Energy Research and Development Authority's (NYSERDA) Market

Action by the lenders to make the whole of their debt due and payable following an Event of Default. Source: Principles of Project Finance, E.R. Yescombe

Bridge Incentive Program for energy storage is getting a record amount of participants, NYSERDA CEO Alicia Barton announced at the Energy Storage North America conference on Thursday.

The Aloha State’s GEM$ program enables renters and low-income households to install solar and energy-saving equipment with no upfront costs.