Clean Energy Finance Forum

One troublesome long-term issue from Texas' Valentine's Day power collapse involved officials' rapid readiness to falsely blame wind power for the fiasco. This April 28 story summarizes a study by ERCOT which found that the freezing of natural gas supplies accounted for a much bigger share of failure in the lethal outages.

Stop me if you've heard this one: A utility wants to cap the rate at which solar owners can feed power back to the grid, and a putatively "red" state accommodates the solar users in the name of prosperity and competitiveness. It's happening again in South Carolina, with some complications ahead, per this April 29 story.

While the VCs and LPs size up flow batteries and new materials, regional developers are realizing the value of viable battery storage near population centers. This April 23 report digs in...

This April 23 feature dares ask whether- or when- electric utilities will invest to absorb the rush of electric vehicles onto American roads.

Neither undergraduates nor (only) religious leaders, representatives of a few dozen huge asset managers formally called on the banks with which they deal to stop financing deforestation and other climate bads. This reporting from Business Green spells out the who and what.

This April 21 op-ed from the Cleveland Plain-Dealer lays out the case for selling solar power from farms in Ohio.

This April 21 op-ed from the Cleveland Plain-Dealer lays out the case for selling solar power from farms in Ohio.

This April 15 press release from the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab signals a 49% potential drop in levelized costs of wind energy by 2050, with larger turbines likely and a lot of policy levers on which to pull with force.