US Policy
Climate Action Plans for States Made Easier with Free Tool
The updated Energy Policy Simulators are already helping states access federal funding from the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program…
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Financing solar panels just became way easier. Thank the Climate Bill.
Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, a new financing model can make solar easier to access for low-income households and nonprofits. Here’s how a church in Compton put it to work.
Strategic Insights
Energy after Fire
We need energy sources fit for an era of work demand, not heat demand. Fortunately, thanks to the rapid growth and cost decline of solar, wind, and electrification, “firepower” faces inexorable decline.
Climate Data
Dispatch from the Carbon Mapper Satellite Launch
An Unstoppable Coalition Tackles Methane Super-Emitters…
Strategic Insights
Q&A: Six Charts for Six Solutions to the Battery Mineral Challenge
Our recent webinar received many more questions than we could cover. Here are more answers in the form of six charts — one for each of our six solutions.
Electricity
Reality Check: Generator-Centric Disaster Response Is Out of Gas
By deploying solar + storage microgrids in our communities before hurricanes strike, they will save customers money in the long run, provide valuable electric grid services that will decrease carbon emissions overall, and already be…
Electricity
How Regulators Can Direct Utilities to Leverage IRA Savings
Lessons from the public utility commissions taking decisive action to pass IRA benefits to utility customers.
Global South
Saint Lucia: The Land, the People, the Light
This small Caribbean Island is taking on climate change and inspiring others to follow.
General
Postcards from a Climate-Changing World
RMIers weathered 2024’s record-hot summer and worsening climate change impacts on their work, families, and travel. Here’s what nine RMIers witnessed and how it inspires their work.
Strategic Insights
Why Efficiency Matters: Unlocking Benefits Beyond Climate for All
Energy efficiency is critical to make climate action faster, cheaper, more equitable, and more widely beneficial for the planet.