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Top Ways to Drive Collective Innovation
One of the intentions of RMI’s Electricity Innovation Lab, or eLab, is to create a space for dialogue, collaboration, and innovation that recognizes and honors the complexity of the electricity system.
Introducing the Electricity Innovation Lab
In RMI’s recent book, Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for a New Energy Era, we suggest it’s possible to transform the U.S. electricity system over the next 40 years to one that is clean, secure, and customer-centric, all while not sacrificing affordability or reliability.
New Fuel for Reinventing Fire: NREL’s Renewable Electricity Future Study
We often hear statistics about the abundant sources of renewable energy that could power our lives and our world.
Cool Solutions for Hot Cars
On this first day of summer, many car owners are likely to experience the following scenario: enter your car to leave work for the day and the temperature is sweltering—much hotter than outside. The ignition, steering wheel, and seat surface are almost too hot to touch.
Video: RMI’s James Newcomb on NREL’s Renewable Futures Study
Yesterday, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory released a seminal study detailing the extent to which renewable energy supply can meet the electricity demands of the continental United States over the next several decades.