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How can you safeguard homes in the wild?

Unsurance: California Homeowners and Utilities Face Off With Fire

Kevin Cellucci
January 04, 2021
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  • Climate Resilience
  • Rural Programs
Bring in the ethicists, actuaries and silviculturists to figure out how to insure homeowners who buy lots at the edge of wilderness that gets more combustible each year. Then, to really complicate things, reckon with the costs to insure utilities in the same territory. In California, nobody from the insurers...
DSIRE-SouthDakota

Clean Across the Continent: Promoting High Wind Goals in the Heartland

Tyler Yeargain
October 28, 2020
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The Center has worked virtually this fall with dozens of professionals earning certificates in Financing and Deploying Clean Energy. Learners in the program study the history, physics, innovation pathways and technological possibility sparking the carbon-free economy. One learning strategy involves crafting policy memos and op/ed pieces on issues where public...
Measure the microgrids' benefits in human terms

How Can Nigeria Use Its Mini-Grid Power Supply to Empower Rural Residents? (Second of Two Parts)

Remy Dhingra
July 22, 2020
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The first section of this story laid out how worldwide finance steered capital into Nigeria's rural communities through a grant process and a tender process, both designed to boost microgrid production. This conclusion asks how these programs pay off for residents and communities-and how their lessons can grow across sub-Saharan...
Minigrid panels rise in the Nigerian economy

Turning Up Clean Power in Nigeria Runs Through Two Paths (First of Two Parts)

Remy Dhingra
July 07, 2020
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Bringing about clean electricity in sub-Saharan Africa means creating credit where historically lenders have held back. Two new programs, a loan and a tender, have drawn international solar developers and raised prospects for low-pollution, high-efficiency in rural Nigeria.
Tony DePrima's determined to lift fossil-free power standards in the First State.

Delaware energy leader Tony DePrima

As Solar and Efficiency Hold Steady, Delaware Aims to Up Renewables

Chris Lewis
March 02, 2020
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Delaware consumes 100 times more energy than it produces, according to the Energy Information Administration, and gets 87% of its electricity from natural gas. The state’s renewables portfolio consists primarily of solar and biomass; a 120-megawatt offshore wind facility is expected to be online in 2022. CEFF spoke to Tony...
View from an arch in Mexico

What Will It Take to Catalyze the Energy Transition?

Kat Friedrich
February 12, 2019
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Vastly higher clean energy targets are essential to empower the international community to make the leap to a sustainable future, according to Richard Heinberg, coauthor of “Our Renewable Future: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy.” In this interview, he delves into the practical challenges involved in the...
Colorado forest

New Governors Seek the Next Clean Energy Frontier

Corey Cantor
January 29, 2019
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Across the nation, new elected officials have been sworn in this January. They can alter the trajectory of clean energy projects in the years to come. Incoming governors may preside over expanding clean energy markets.
Hubbard Glacier in Alaska

A Potential Green Bank for Alaska

Sola Zheng
January 14, 2019
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Alaska is strongly affected by climate change volatility – and extensively engaged in fossil fuel extraction. And now it’s considering becoming one of the first states in the nation to have a green bank.

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