Clean Energy Finance Forum

A mandate from the Golden State to hook up new buildings to renewable power opens a path for ideas about financing energy upgrades in the vastly higher stock of buildings already in use.

Residents in Springfield, Massachusetts question the "green" light for a biomass facility in an area where many live with asthma.

Could the United States decarbonize most economically by steering trillions in little increments to help homeowners solarize single sites? One model says so.

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.

Debate continues to simmer in California as to what role community solar projects will play as part of the state's new building codes that require solar installations on all new homes, which went into effect at the start of this year.

In California, the nation’s most populous state, every newly-built home must now come with enough solar panels to satisfy its electricity needs. It’s a quiet revolution tucked into the building codes approved unanimously by the California Energy Commission in 2018.

Though Vivint sales representatives knock on “millions of doors a year,” CEO David Bywater said on the company’s Q3 earnings call that recent power outages have pushed many potential customers to reconsider renewables and storage.

California officials reacted with outrage on Monday to PG&E's power shutoff, but the utility stood by its decision and even state regulators seemed to acknowledge the difficult situation.

Los Angeles has been sitting on a contract for record-cheap solar power for more than a month — and city officials declined to approve it because of concerns raised by the city-run utility’s labor union, which is still fuming over Mayor Eric Garcetti’s decision to shut down three gas-fired power plants.

NextEra will build a combined 700 megawatts for an electric cooperative group in a landmark deal for the hybrid renewables sector.