RMI Outlet, Rocky Mountain Institute’s blog, explores topics critical to RMI’s mission to transform global energy use to create a clean, prosperous, and secure low-carbon future.
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A Greener Caribbean is Possible with Resilient Distributed Energy
Historically, Caribbean electricity systems have heavily relied on imported, dirty fossil fuels burned at a central plant. In recent years, Caribbean leaders have spearheaded a…
Climate Tech’s Four Valleys of Death and Why We Must Build a Bridge
We need faster and more climate-tech innovation. For such technologies, it’s an especially challenging path from idea to first product…
The Electric Vehicle Charging No One’s Talking About (But Should Be!)
There’s been a lot of talk around green stimulus lately. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated economic downturn, organizations across…
Stimulus, Clean Energy, and Changing the Status Quo
The status quo no longer works—for health, for equity, or for climate. In just three months, we lost over 100,000 Americans to COVID-19. Over 40…
A Clean Electricity Future is Affordable and Attainable—It’s Time to Act
For a decade or more, even as renewables have gained market share within the US power grid, accelerated progress toward a lower-carbon grid has been…