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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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…
Why We Need Faster Climate Tech Innovation
RMI has argued for some time that the energy transition is possible today and requires no new technologies. In 2014, Reinventing Fire mapped a…
In a Pandemic or a Climate Crisis, You Better Get Your Data Right
According to polls, it was mid-March when most of us in the United States understood the severity of COVID-19. At the same time, we…
It’s Time to Incentivize Residential Heat Pumps
The United States has made significant progress decarbonizing the electricity sector in recent years, and as the grid continues to get cleaner, cities and states…