Electricity
The Power of Innovation to Cut Carbon: WattTime at COP23
Today at the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change (COP23), WattTime—a Rocky Mountain Institute subsidiary—and Microsoft launched a new way to give customers the power to understand and reduce their carbon emissions. WattTime is now supporting European data on carbon emissions,…
Blockchain in Energy: Powered by EWF
Energy Web Foundation (EWF) is proud to announce the release of our organization’s open-source blockchain. Blockchains are distributed public databases that securely record digital transactions without a central clearinghouse, and are best known from digital currencies like Bitcoin. The code and client for Tobalaba, EWF’s test network, were published…
Organic Valley Goes 100% Renewable through Community Solar
Almost 30 years ago, seven organic farmers from the U.S. Midwest, unhappy with the state of American agriculture, decided to band together and form a cooperative to continue farming sustainably.
DER 2.0: e–Lab Accelerator Unlocks the Potential of Distributed Energy Resources
After more than a decade of steady growth, distributed energy resources (DERs)—including rooftop solar, battery storage, demand-response systems, smart appliances, and electric vehicles—stand today at an important inflection point with respect to their role in the electricity system. This is reflected in half a dozen important shifts taking place in…
A Buyers Roadmap: Pushing Corporate Renewables to New Heights
This blog post is part of a series from RMI’s Business Renewables Center (BRC), which streamlines and accelerates corporate purchasing of off-site, large-scale renewable energy. 2017 has once again been a banner year for the corporate renewable energy market. With Kimberly Clark and General…
