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A Bridge Backward? The Risky Economics of New Natural Gas Infrastructure in the United States
Download The Growing Market for Clean Energy Portfolios and Prospects for Gas Pipelines in the Era of Clean Energy Register for a webinar on September 19, 2019 where report authors will present the two studies and address questions about them. Over the…
Fire and Smoke: How Communities’ Health Suffers From Climate Change—And How the Energy Transition Can Help
This blog post was originally published in Health and Climate Solutions Blog: George Mason University. Rocky Mountain Institute, the nonprofit I lead, has been a part of the community of Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley since its founding 37 years ago. Our Innovation Center headquarters is there, and the people…
Learning Extreme Energy Efficiency at Rocky Mountain Institute
For me, the best spring break is not on a beach; it’s in the mountains. High up in the Roaring Fork Valley in Western Colorado, amid the snowcapped peaks, there’s a river that babbles past the small towns and their quirky residents. There’s not a lot out there. It feels…
Texas’s X Factor: Part 2: How the Lone Star State Is Poised to Integrate Distributed Energy Resources in Innovative Ways
This post is the second in a series describing the opportunities that abound in Texas’s energy system and how e–Lab Forge: Texas 2019 can help realize them. The first post is available here. While Texas has long been synonymous with oil and gas production, it has also become a…
Bringing Electricity Markets to China: Adapting International Experience in Power Sector Deregulation to Fit China’s Economy
Introducing competitive electricity markets to China could reduce global emissions by 0.4 percent. The world’s second-largest economy is moving away from its centrally planned roots and is undertaking systemic power sector reforms. Chinese regulators’ motivations are not all that different than those of regulators in the West: they are trying…