Ali is a Senior Associate within RMI’s Business Renewables Center (BRC), which she joined in October of 2016. Prior to joining RMI, Ali worked for SunEdison’s Commercial and Industrial practice for two years, focusing on solar projects in New England. Through working on both the Project Finance and Project Development teams she gained experience in everything from land acquisition, town permitting, and the utility interconnection process to structuring and building financial models to value projects and portfolios.
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With the enactment of the Virginia Clean Economy Act, signed into law by Governor Ralph Northam this past Sunday, Virginia has become the first state in the American South to commit to 100 percent zero-carbon electricity. This is a big step forward for a state where laws and regulatory hurdles…
More than 200 US cities, townships, and counties have adopted 100 percent clean energy targets. While some have already achieved them, many more are still trying to figure out how they will work with many stakeholders, most notably their electric utilities, to get there. Yesterday, the city council in…
Cities in the United States are uniquely positioned to spur growth in demand for renewable energy procurement, accelerate the transition to a clean energy system, and provide visible and practical examples for the country as whole. By demonstrating to states, regions, and the federal government that it is possible to…
This blog post is part of a series from RMI’s Business Renewables Center (BRC), which streamlines and accelerates corporate purchasing of off-site, large-scale renewable energy. 2017 has once again been a banner year for the corporate renewable energy market. With Kimberly Clark and General Motors…
This blog post is part of a series from RMI’s Business Renewables Center (BRC), which streamlines and accelerates corporate purchasing of off-site, large-scale renewable energy. “The era of expensive renewables is over,” declared the executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Fatih Birol, at…
Guest author Timothy Carter, Ph.D., is the President of Second Nature. Renewable energy is truly having its moment in the sun. One doesn’t have to look hard to find solar panels on the neighbors’ roofs, majestic wind turbines popping up across the Great Plains, or that new Tesla you’ve seen…
General Motors (GM), one of the world’s largest automotive companies, is bringing new energy to Detroit these days—literally. Just a week after the presidential election this year, more than 200 renewable market participants gathered at GM’s headquarters in Detroit, Michigan, for the Business Renewables Center’s (BRC’s)…
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