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Communities of color and low-income populations dedicate a disproportionate amount of their income to pay for energy. They also experience more frequent and prolonged service disruptions, impacting community health and safety.
When designed correctly, commercial solar + storage installations have the potential to ameliorate these issues. However, utility programs created to support such installations are frequently underutilized because communities often lack the time and resources needed to access them. Further, historically, few utilities have had the motivation and incentives or experience to account for this barrier.
RMI provided process support to Solar Energy Innovation Network teams, and described their experiences …
View Full ResourceThe Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC) is focused on building the strong, secure supply chain foundation our nation’s energy system needs. In 2023, MESC launched an extraordinary range of investments in American energy manufacturing, positioning the nation to lead in this essential sector.
MESC identifies critical dependencies in energy supply chains and targets manufacturing capacity and workforce training investments to build a more robust energy system. MESC operates at the frontline of clean energy capital deployment, de-risking private sector investment and attracting capital to under-invested or unrepresented domestic supply chain segments. In fact, …
Oceantic Network releases its U.S. Offshore Wind Quarterly Market Report in April, July, and October. Each report builds off our U.S. Offshore Wind Annual Market Report and provides key analysis of both federal and state government activities impacting the U.S. offshore wind industry. The quarterly reports ensure companies are informed on offshore wind industry developments affecting their business.
Notable milestones for the first three months of 2024 include Ørsted and Eversource’s completion of South Fork Wind project in March. Next up is Vineyard Wind, to be completed later this year, which also began delivering power to the grid. Meanwhile, two …
View Full ResourceGlobally, government agencies are one of the largest procurers of steel and cement, primarily for large-scale construction projects. Similarly, in India, public procurement accounts for at least 20% of gross domestic product (GDP). To leverage this significant market size and promote synergies between sustainability and procurement, India has already implemented measures such as the Ecomark Scheme and the Standards and Labelling Scheme. Most of these existing initiatives have a limited scope, focusing on white goods like large home appliances. Green public procurement (GPP) has the potential to align producer and consumer expectations for more low-carbon materials, particularly cement and steel, …
View Full ResourceToday, Western states have the chance to make transformative investments that will unlock incredible economic opportunities enabled by new energy. However, to seize this opportunity, states will need to collaborate to expand the region’s electricity transmission system. Unfortunately, status quo planning has been ineffective — over the past 40 years, the region has built almost no regional transmission.
In this report, we show that Western regional transmission expansion is a win-win economic opportunity for all Western states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming — and that the most expansive planning leads to …
View Full ResourceWith over 36,000 kilometers of coastline and an estimated total technical potential of 178 gigawatts (GW), offshore wind is gaining attention in the Philippines to improve energy security, lower electricity costs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and promote economic growth. With the expected depletion of the Malampaya natural gas field — which supplies fuel for roughly 20 percent of the country’s electricity — by the end of the decade, a looming energy crisis has highlighted the need for accelerated large-scale renewable energy development.
To show the government’s commitment, the country has set a goal of sourcing 35 percent of its energy …
View Full ResourceWhile improvements to the transmission interconnection process have been ongoing in the United States since the 2000s, the backlogs in current queues motivate efforts to develop novel solutions. In addition, innovations in data collection, analysis, and software management systems are creating new opportunities for automating parts of the interconnection process to handle larger interconnection requests while also reducing interconnection study process timelines. This roadmap focuses on high-voltage electric transmission interconnections in the bulk power system (BPS), and compiles solutions that provide a comprehensive set of opportunities for industry collaboration within the interconnection process. At the same time, the interconnection solutions …
View Full ResourceDeploying the advanced grid solutions available today could cost effectively increase the capacity of the existing grid to support 20-100 GW of incremental peak demand when installed individually, while improving grid reliability, resilience, and affordability. The grid is becoming a bottleneck to greater economic development, decarbonization, and equity priorities. Customers are demanding more grid capacity as regional electricity demand grows substantially for the first time in decades to serve a rapid uptick in data center and manufacturing needs and broader end-use electrification.
At the same time, heightened threats and increased dependence on electricity increase the importance of reliability and resilience …
The global wind industry installed a record 117GW of new capacity in 2023, making it the best year ever for new wind energy, finds this year’s Global Wind Report from the Global Wind Energy Council.
The report finds the wind industry is entering a new era of accelerated growth driven by increased political ambition, manifested in the historic COP28 adoption of a target to triple renewable energy by 2030.…
View Full ResourceThis brief outlines a path to electrifying 70% of industrial process heat by 2050, highlighting major challenges and opportunities. They discuss actions that four key stakeholders—federal policymakers, state and local policymakers, utility planners, and utility regulators—can take today to shift the market for industrial process heat away from fossil fuels and towards efficient, electrified technologies. An electrified industrial sector will be cleaner, smarter, more efficient, and more reliable than the emissions-heavy, fossil-fueled sector we have today. This shift will bring economic and health benefits—from reduced air pollution—to communities across the United States.
Manufacturing investments in the United States have steadily …
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