Clean Energy Finance Forum

On December 1, the Politico-owned staple set its sights on the slow (so far) progress of offshore wind approvals.

In this November 7 story, the state of Massachusetts rejects a claim by a utility that current offtake prices make a wind project infeasible.

This October 18 story explores the logic for undersea cables' emergence as transmission conveyors for offshore wind.

On October 6, All Things Considered took note of a development near Fort Myers, FL that delivered on a promise of withstanding disaster with solar and other resilient design elements.

On September 23, this roundup leads with a note on Avangrid delaying a wind deployment several months because of supply issues.

On September 13, news organizations noted that President Biden talked up climate policy aimed at growing a pollution-free economy over the next two decades despite the fact that prices had gone up on an annual basis from the previous August.

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.