Clean energy cannot be stopped.

With that factual tailwind, we feature a college student and a participant in our certificate program in this issue. Both explain how policymakers can foster the transmission of clean energy across the United States. Permitting plays a role. So does sure capital for early expenses. Our writers zoom into those ideas to show some complicating factors. The next move is yours -as an investor, an entrepreneur, an internal advocate, a ratepayer, a voter, or all of these. Start by making a map, with our help. Then take deep breaths and steep steps.

We start our news roundup with LA Times columnist Sammy Roth detailing how climate change will rearrange life in his legendary city. Roth's prophecy reads like a rallying cry. The rest of our news roundup finds financiers, civic leaders and inventors preparing software and hardware for the grid when it admits all the clean energy that citizens and corporate directors will deploy - in any political weather.