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Is the White House’s Solar Commitment on Target?

When the White House announced a multipronged solar commitment that benefits low-to-moderate-income communities, the decision did not take place in a vacuum. Although most news ...

Clean Energy Finance Forum

Conference Focuses on Scaling Sustainable Solutions

Bringing Sustainability Initiatives to Scale

Global Network Courses: Building a Toolkit for Global Teams

Imagining a Fresh Start for the Power Grid

Originally posted on the Clean Energy Finance Forum Imagine you could design the electricity market in one state from scratch. There are no pre-existing programs ...

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Imagining a Fresh Start for the Power Grid

Imagine you could design the electricity market in one state from scratch. There are no pre-existing programs to satisfy and no political baggage to consider ...

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Bringing Nature into the Engineer’s Toolbox

This blog was originally published on Cool Green Science, the Science Blog of The Nature Conservancy.Mention engineering to a typical conservationist, and thoughts turn to ...

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Bringing Nature into the Engineer’s Toolbox

The Ambassadors of Avon

On a night when most of Connecticut fretted about the bleak, snowy forecast, 15 residents of Avon considered a bright, sunny future. They were gathered ...

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Which Solar Investment Tax Credit Strategy Can Survive the Federal Political Climate?

What are the political options the United States solar industry faces as it seeks to avert the impact of the phase-out of the federal investment ...

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A Hands-On Workshop on Energy Efficiency Financing Program Design

What does an effective energy efficiency financing program look like? On May 31 in San Francisco, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) convened 23 ...

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A Simple Prescription for Increasing Electric Vehicle Adoption

A new in-depth report on the electrical vehicle (EV) market suggests that states interested in boosting EV adoption rates should support the purchase of cars ...

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A Simple Prescription for Increasing Electric Vehicle Adoption

Value-of-Solar Study Proposed for Massachusetts

At a public event in Boston on June 11 called "Designing Solar’s Value: A Stakeholder’s Forum," speakers outlined an ambitious proposal to shift the entire ...

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The Science of Acceleration: Reflections on Solar Marketing

On April 15th, students, professors from Duke and Yale Universities, and executives from non-profit marketing firm SmartPower and the Connecticut Green Bank gathered around a ...

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The Science of Acceleration: Reflections on Solar Marketing

Financing Electric Vehicle Markets in New York and Other States

The process of sowing the seeds of electric vehicle infrastructure – and thereby creating a backbone of charging stations that can support these vehicles – ...

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Financing Electric Vehicle Markets in New York and Other States

Bringing energy efficiency to the middle class

Should the Investment Tax Credit’s Sunset Strategy Be Changed?

The United States solar industry is apprehensively discussing the 2017 phase-out of its federal 30-percent Investment Tax Credit (ITC). Now, a report by faculty at ...

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