Strategic Insights
2023
| Article
There is as much naysaying about the clean energy transition as there are ways to accelerate it. The excuses spread by detractors, pessimists, and companies trying to protect their polluting businesses abound: “Wind and solar…
Finance
2023
| Commentary
Recent events show that not just big banks can threaten the financial system, and that banks need to take stock of their risk exposure.
Strategic Insights
2022
| Commentary
Fossil fuel demand peaked in 2019 and is now bouncing along a plateau before its inevitable decline.
Global South
2022
| Commentary
Right now at the Conference of the Parties (COP) 27 in Egypt, all eyes are on whether rich countries provide the money they have promised to poorer, less-developed nations to help them adapt to the…
US Policy
2022
| Commentary
America has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to lower costs and establish global leadership on climate and clean energy by focusing on regional strategies.
China
2020
| Commentary
Editor’s note: The following op-ed was posted in Mandarin in Caijing Magazine, an influential Chinese publication that covers social, political and economic topics. On April 20, 2020, for the first time ever, the price…
General
2019
| Commentary
Any serious energy transformation will need to harness America’s powerful and creative economic engine.
Electricity
2017
| Commentary
For more detail on the topics covered in this article, readers should see Amory Lovins’ FERC comments, a recent article on Forbes, and a forthcoming article in The Electricity Journal. In April,…
Electricity
2017
| Commentary
Anyone reading the news knows that clean energy isn’t getting much support at the federal level these days. As President Trump moves to unravel the Clean Power Plan and…
Buildings
2017
| Commentary
The unique characteristics of Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) make it an important market enabler for home performance solutions that deliver myriad homeowner and broader societal and economic benefits. Recently, Senator…