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Pandora released music location data. Should electric utilities follow suit?
The Pandora model presents a similar opportunity for electric utilities to leverage data to understand customer usage patterns.

Collaboration is Key: How innovative solar business models can benefit all
Many of the largest opportunities to increase the value of distributed solar PV will require targeting opportunities that neither solar companies nor utilities can address alone. They will have to work together.

Top 10 Clean Energy Developments of 2014
2014 was an exciting year for clean energy. There were many remarkable clean energy developments that are helping bring us closer to a clean, prosperous, and secure energy future. Based on an informal poll of the RMI staff we list our top 10.

You’ll Shoot the Climate’s Eye Out
Christmas is just a few days away, and with it, also TBS’s annual marathon of A Christmas Story. Readers of a certain generation will remember it as the classic movie from 1983 in which Ralphie Parker, the central character, pines for an airsoft Red Ryder BB gun, only to be rebuffed, “You’ll shoot your eye out.”

RMI and CWR’s Alliance: The Best Philanthropic ROI To Create Industry-Changing Impact
I’ve been a Rocky Mountain Institute supporter for nearly 15 years. That’s because RMI’s impactful work on market-based energy solutions offers a great return on my philanthropic investment.