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This photo of Arkabutla Lake, Mississippi evokes a hydropower project this fund has staked. (Photo by Sean Davis via Flickr Creative Commons.)

The Inflation Reduction Act blazes miles upon miles of trail with clear markers in what had been overgrown backcountry. And the inconclusive recent climate negotiations that the United Nations sponsored in Egypt work as charcoal-gray clouds overhead. Where are attentive capitalists placing investment now that scale is possible and challenges...

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 introductory article signals, arguably, the moment when community solar breaks into the mainstream discussion. it focuses on a state whose policy aggressively promotes decarbonization.

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 30, the industry standard-bearer peered into Ian's wreckage and saw shortcomings with supply chains and planning.

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.

Many have boiled down the seminal Inflation Reduction Act, and many are burrowing into it. To set boundaries and context beyond the timing of tax credits, consider an analogy to how another blockbuster set of policies altered one of the world's more emissions-intensive cities.

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.

Can pledges prompt fast and sure deployment? Many want to know. — In San Francisco, youth are protesting the climate crisis as pledges emerge in Glasgow. (Photo outside BlackRock's San Francisco office by Peg Hunter, via Flickr Creative Commons.)

A bumper crop of climate pledges and plans land in your inbox, but how many make it to your term sheet? This investigation follows a few global finance pledges, setting them against capital needs and focusing on partnerships and local efforts as units of action.

This March 31 analysis looks at squabbles with utilities over who bears the transmission cost when more people generate their own clean power. It focuses on Florida and California.

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Policy Pinpoint: Legislation and the Long Road Before Us

Wedding of the Wires

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