Electricity
Building a Brighter Future by Changing Utility Incentives
Comprehensive performance-based regulation can benefit utilities, customers, and the environment.
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Electricity
What’s the State of Utility Planning Halfway through 2024?
Our most recent review of utility planning finds significant load growth, increases to planned gas capacity, and higher projected emissions for the US electricity sector.
Buildings
Embodied Carbon Regulations Are Coming. The Real Estate Industry Can Get Ahead With Improved Portfolio Carbon Accounting
You may not realize it, but the past 12 months have been a reckoning for the emissions from building materials and construction — otherwise known as embodied carbon.
Industry
The Time Is Now for Zero-Emissions Cargo Handling Equipment at America’s Busiest Cargo Ports
The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach handle nearly 40 percent of US shipping container traffic; decarbonizing the equipment that handles these containers needs to begin now.
Global South
Vikram Singh: Bringing His Global Mindset to RMI
Vikram Singh is truly a global citizen — considering himself equal parts Indian, Spanish, and American. Having struggled with consolidating three continents into his personal identity for years, he now leverages his multi-cultural background as…
Finance
Finding (Re)purpose: Demystifying Coal Repurposing in the Global Energy Transition
The repurposing of coal plants is gaining buzz. In a new article series, Finding (Re)purpose, we break down what it is and why it matters.
Strategic Insights
The Race to the Top in Six Charts and Not Too Many Numbers
There is a global race to the top to lead the energy technologies of the future. As in past technology waves, the great powers are vying to reap the benefits of new technology ahead of…
US Policy
Measuring Up States’ Priority Climate Action Plans
States’ Priority Climate Action Plans could result in 7 percent less climate pollution from the United States by 2030…
Carbon Markets
A Buyer’s Guide to Carbon Credit Data Quality
Introducing new tools for buyers to play an integral role in scaling a high-quality Voluntary Carbon Market…
Buildings
Abundant, Affordable, Climate-friendly Homes: What Part 1 of the National Definition of a Zero Emissions Building Means for Housing
Unpacking the Department of Energy’s long-anticipated Zero Emissions Building definition.