Clean Energy Finance Forum

In this December 1 update, the protectionist requirement in the United States' breakthrough climate policy starts softening to welcome more European suppliers.

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.

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

On September 6, this story spotlighted utilities' shoddy record at restoring and sustaining electricity for low-income communities of color.

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.

A smallish company's CEO held forth to CNBC on December 9 about a partnership with a slightly bigger outfit called General Motors to source and supply EV battery components from a site in California.

Venture investors and auto-company directors rarely take strategic pointers from urban-planning activists. In light of this November 19 essay pinpointing electric SUVs' sustainability failings, perhaps they should.

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.

We wrote last year about Beam, the startup with plans to run electric-vehicle charging stations on on-site solar and pay for itself with advertising. Amid a call for a national mandate that would electrify half of the United States' cars, Beam kept reporting orders from cities and ran a test EV aircraft flight. This July 17 TV dispatch offers some details.

In the Roadmap, the partners set a goal to move toward an additional 25% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and associated air pollution through accelerating transportation electrification by the time the world arrives in Los Angeles for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.