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This week, we highlight policy memos from participants in our Financing and Deploying Clean Energy certificate program. These pieces break down complex challenges - increasing offshore wind and battery capacity in the United States' Northeast- into public-sector paths that private-sector innovators can light for the rest of us.
We also highlight our first-ever Clean Energy Conference, coming your way in less than two months. If you join us for that, you'll come away with more measurable methods and more practical ideas. And maybe before too long, our writers will be covering what you're up to. Thanks for your work and for letting us support it.
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Northeastern Offshore Wind Merits a Federal Capacity Market Update
Val Stori
A clean-energy policy advocate who's earning a Financing and Deploying Clean Energy certificate zooms in on reforms to power-supply market rules. Her memo catches the current from announcements in New York and New Jersey that these populous states are hosting offshore-wind construction projects. Sail on...
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But When Wind Whips Up, States Should Support a Companion Resilience Strategy
Brian Ambrette
Getting the fossil-free power to the marketplace activates change. Getting that power to homes and businesses sustains progress. In a policy memo written for FDCE and not on the job, a staffer in the Maine governor's office proposes advancing battery backup for resilience and energy justice in the partly rural north. Light the way...
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Industry News: Bets, Bests, and Breakthroughs
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Plugging Power to Cap Methane Leaks Starts Somewhere (in Washington, DC) and Expands
The carbon budget demands replacing new dirty energy sources with clean ones, and stopping old dirty energy from sending contrails into the atmosphere. This Washington Post column details Biden Administration plans to send $1.15 billion to states for closing methane-leaking well sites. Close up...
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Succeeding Steel Seemed Impossible Anytime Soon. Then Researchers Produced This Invention.
As "moonshots" in, oh, carbon-capture and green hydrogen recur in pitch decks, academic researchers report a seismic event. This press release from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professes that chemical engineers there have determined how to replace steel in many settings. What's next?
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The Profit Motive Crosses Right Where Cleaner Energy Would Logically Cross the Grid (Again)
Plastic can overpower steel, but can far-flung clean electricity outshine central grids? Yes, but it will take some jockeying. Via this Bloomberg Law report, sit for a moment with news that big utilities are responding to a federal order meant to expedite distributed energy by working to contain it. Energy that burns clean and travels compactly will dominate the market. It just won't switch over all at once. Monitor the moves...
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Opponents Reliably Try Redefining the Transition Around Reliability - This Time in Kentucky
Around here, we leave the doomsaying to others. So why do we share this bill that a Kentucky state legislator introduced on February 9? We hope to explore how fossil-fuel apologists couch their defense in terms of "reliability" - terms which clean-power entrepreneurs should welcome. Count on it. (For a long-range investigation that seems to rebut this bill's premise, feast on this federal research study.)
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So Consider This Sign(-on Statement) Of the Times To Help Optimistic Reasoning Light the Way
A letter from the Clean Energy Business Network urges members of the United States Congress to prioritize renewable-sector employment, innovation, and resilience. You saw those priorities pulsing through our participants' policy memos. Since they harmonize with your company and values, read this letter and take up with your teams if and how you might add your voice. To build on IIJA, they say they need ya.
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Spring Forward and Sign Up for Our Biggest Event Yet, on April 1 and 2
A chance to lock arms with leaders from the national government, the worldwide startup network and every community in between? It's yours (no fooling) when you sign up for our inaugural Clean Energy Conference.
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North Carolina Department of Commerce/Utility Commission
Wake County, NC
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