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.
This August 15 report explains how Spain plans to deploy billions of euros to upgrade existing buildings in pursuit of decarbonization goals. While critics worry about tilting the economy toward construction, proponents emphasize broad environmental gains and improvements to the property market.
This August 2 overview looks without blinking at how cities worldwide can run dry - and gets us thinking about raising capital for systematizing water-recycling or rainwater-harvesting projects as companions to new power projects across the globe.
In June and July, we covered startups and accelerators as they work to nudge Indonesia's state-run utility. This July 17 roundup looks at how dormancy in Southeast Asia may be ending- and at the steep need for more capital and more deployment.
This July 1 briefing, published under the Euromoney aegis, spells out how the Netherlands keeps priming rooftop solar even as grid solar gains traction in the United States.
Could the United States decarbonize most economically by steering trillions in little increments to help homeowners solarize single sites? One model says so.
Breaking through from suspicion through conviction to fact, researchers presented papers this fall showing a persistent link between peoples' skin color and their situation in overheated, overpriced built environments.
Surveying China's plan to send carbon emissions way down, the IEA forecasts broader uptake of carbon capture, hydrogen and other decarbonization tools on the strength of China's manufacturing.
If NextEra absorbs Duke Energy, would energy regulators demand concessions that support low-income families? And would the merged utility speed up its decarbonization?
