Buildings
Advance Market Commitment Policy Brief
How advance market commitments can remake public purchasing for near-zero or zero-emissions concrete.
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Electricity
Rebalancing “Return on Equity” to Accelerate an Affordable Clean Energy Future
By updating how to determine ROE, regulators can incentivize grid investments that are more affordable for customers, improve grid resilience, and maintain reliability.
Strategic Insights
Expanding Our Vision of Energy Efficiency
We need energy sources fit for an era of work demand, not heat demand. Fortunately, thanks to the rapid growth and cost decline of solar, wind, and electrification, “firepower” faces inexorable decline.
Industry
Easing the Permitting Process for Clean Industrial Projects in California
The industrial permitting process in California remains long and complicated. This memo outlines key challenges and solutions.
Electricity
Modeling the DOE’s Energy Infrastructure Reinvestment Program in Resource Planning
Recommendations for utility modelers and regulators to maximize ratepayer savings using low-cost federal loans.
Industry
US States and Carbon Dioxide Removal: Leadership Opportunities and Key Principles for Policymakers
Carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere, is necessary, in addition to reducing greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as possible, to meet climate targets.
Electricity
Reimagining Utility Climate Risk Planning
How Regulators and Utilities Can Leverage and Improve Climate Risk Assessment Frameworks to Drive an Affordable and Equitable Transition.
Electricity
Maximizing the Value of the Energy Infrastructure Reinvestment Program for Utility Customers
“Capital recycling” can help deploy clean energy assets, cushion ratepayer impacts, and offer sustained earnings.
Electricity
Assessing the Impact of Voluntary Actions on the Grid
ZEROgrid’s Impact Advisory Initiative findings on consequential impact assessments, their use, and areas for further research.
Electricity
Transforming the Way We Serve Vulnerable Communities: Performance Incentive Mechanisms and Beyond
Regulators in at least seven jurisdictions have adopted performance incentive mechanisms (PIMs) and complementary reforms to elevate equity in the clean energy transition.