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Hawaii just ended net metering for solar. Now what?
Earlier this week, the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (PUC) issued a ruling ending net energy metering (NEM) for all new solar customers in the…
Residential Energy+ and Transparency: Making value visible for home energy performance
Imagine you’re a prospective homebuyer. Knowing that a home purchase may be the largest expenditure you make in your lifetime, you aspire to make a…
San Francisco Prepares for the Big One with Microgrids
In 2008 the USGS reported that California has a 99 percent chance of a magnitude 6.7 or larger earthquake in the next 30 years. So the City of San Francisco is not taking any chances—they’re preparing for the (next) big one with microgrids.
Giving Low-Income Families Access to Clean Energy and Efficiency
In June, RMI—along with its partner organizations—launched eLab Leap in New York to identify the unmet needs and create solutions that empower and improve the…
2015 Energy Exchange: Taking Energy Retrofits Further with the Federal Government
Federal agencies are coming under increasing pressure to pursue—and seeing increasing benefit from—deep savings via energy retrofits. This promises an exciting energy future but presents a challenge for the government given limited appropriated funds and personnel.
