Our Financing and Deploying Clean Energy policy memos earn the spotlight.
Our Financing and Deploying Clean Energy policy memos earn the spotlight.
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Nearly anything can change. 
That includes our writing approach. By now, the investment prospects for clean energy are as strong as the ecological need for it. But both involve some tricky concepts. So we're updating how we write stories in order to help you command the terms and techniques that will drive the energy transition forward. Look for more stories that clarify concepts in the coming months. 
This time, enjoy policy memos from participants in our Financing and Deploying Clean Energy certificate program. One distills how Ithaca, New York's sustainability manager switched the place's buildings off fossil fuel. The manager himself wrote it. The other, from a sustainable finance executive, appeals to two Senators who used to be friends to unite for a transmission tax credit. 
Also in this edition, our news roundup, webinar suggestions, and 13 job listings offer more proof that our sector is growing across the globe. 
Alliances stand among the many things that can change this year. So can your knowledge and network. You can apply to join the FDCE '23 cohort from January 11 to March 13. Use this link.  
Enjoy, interrogate, and act on what you see here - and tell us what we should deliver next.   

From Our Team

It's a Justice Agenda! It's a Job Creator! In Fact, Electrifying Buildings is Both - and Doable.
Luis Aguirre-Torres
In the Washington Post, on Canary Media, over the Al Jazeera wire...many news consumers got to know Luis Aguirre-Torres last year for helping his city's buildings quit fossil fuel. Here, he tells his story in an update of the memo he wrote in the FDCE program. Lights up!
Policy Memo: Appealing for a Transmission Tax Credit
Zach Denny 
Transmission makes power from the sun, wind, waves and earth reach anyone who needs it. We'll explore its potential in a spring conference: for now, feast on this second memo from our Financing and Deploying Clean Energy program to spell out why Congress should boost it. Ride on...

Industry News: Bets, Bests, and Breakthroughs

"A Massive Opportunity Here," To Explore Where Climate-Tech Capital Went Last Year & Goes Now
The term "climate tech" covers attempts to use new stuff to reach decarbonization at scale. Last year, startups with new mousetraps drew some $50 billion, signaling a higher and wider tolerance for risk. Now, investors need to coalesce around metrics and impact. Read the state of play in Fast Company...
In Nebraska, a Firm Hopes To Turn More Gas to Hydrogen (& More) Through a DOE Commitment
The Department of Energy, as we wrote about last year, has revived its lending power. On December 23, loan director Jigar Shah wrote a press release outlining a conditional commitment to support a Nebraska firm's effort to expand production. The company, Monolith, produces carbon black and hydrogen from gas. Its loan guarantee, which depends among other things on "significant private capital" can help it sell more to farms and manufacturers in stubbornly carbon-intensive sectors. Read the press release...
Meanwhile, in Michigan, a Utility Faces the Aging Grid and Navigates a Different Kind of Gap
This dispatch from a network of Michigan news sites captures the squeeze that everyone finds when an aging grid meets a renewable pledge. Consumers Energy, which has aggressively promoted renewables, won a requested rate increase in December - but says it needed much more to update the grid. Review...
So Who Pulls It All Together? Each of Us Plays a Role, but These Three Roll Out Most of the Plays
The space between a reliable grid and a clean one shows one opening for federally-primed investment. This story from CBS News introduces two lawyers and a former New Orleans mayor with wide purview for turning the infrastructure bill into a set of improvements. See how their backgrounds prepare them here
Steel the Deal: A Korean Company Looks for a Partner to Speed Decarbonization in Its Product
One product that looks darn hard to clean up also shows up on rail lines, across bridges and in your dinner fork. This story from the Korean Economic Daily flags POSCO for planning an ambitious conversion of steel production to replace blast furnaces with lower-carbon electric output. Is the curtain rising? Read on....

Webinars

Urban-X Demo Day
Urban-X
January 11, 2022 at 3 pm EST
Stories to Watch 2022
World Resources Institute
January 19, 2022 at 9 am EST 
Solar Energy Technologies Office Peer Review
US Department of Energy
January 31, 2022 at 10 am EST (all day)

Jobs 

Manager of Sustainability
The TJX Companies
Marlborough, MA (hybrid) 
Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Forum
Director of Climate Policy
Washington, DC
Director, Project Development
Wunder Capital 
Boulder, CO (hybrid) 
Senior Analyst, Environmental Sustainability (project)
The Walt Disney Company
Burbank, CA or remote
Strategic Advisor
Center for Sustainable Energy
San Diego, CA
Chief Sustainability Officer
City of San Diego
San Diego, CA
Manager - Partner Engagement, Center for Climate-Aligned Finance (closes soon!) 
RMI
Remote with geographic preferences in the job description
Senior Knowledge Analyst - Climate and Energy
Boston Consulting Group
London, UK 
Green Hydrogen Manager
Taylor Hopkinson
Berlin, Germany

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