Cleantech Stories I'm Following This Month
NYC Climate Week, a bipartisan permitting reform bill, states suing to save offshore wind, weaker mileage standards, rising gas prices, and the …
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How Far Are We from 24/7 Renewable Energy?
Projects delivering round-the-clock solar power are multiplying. How close is the rest of the grid to 24/7 renewables — and what will it take to get …
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Cleantech Trends — Mid-Year Review
Revisiting the cleantech stories of 2025 at the year’s midpoint: energy security, the data center power crunch, and big bets on geothermal and …
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Interview with Cycling Batteries CEO Adam Black
This week I’m delighted to share a conversation I recently had with Adam Black, CEO and Founder of the e-bike and battery startup, Cycling …
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Interview with EPDI Founder Ted Ko
I’m pleased this week to share a conversation I recently had with Ted Ko, the executive director of the Energy Policy Design Institute (EPDI). …
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Peak Oil Part 2 — Iran War Edition
Energy Security Takes Center Stage On a normal day, about 20 million barrels of crude oil and oil product moves through the Strait of Hormuz — nearly …
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Is it Finally Time to Start Talking About Peak Oil Again?
In the early aughts, a series of books from oil industry experts, petroleum engineers, and physicists warned that global oil production had peaked and …
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Biggest Energy Transition Stories of 2025
2025 was a big year for cleantech and energy transition. Here’s a roundup of some of the most important things that happened — and a couple of …
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Debunking the Solar Cost Shift Myth
Economist Ahmad Faruqui on how California got net metering wrong and how smarter rate design could accelerate electrification and protect customers. …
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AI-Driven Oil Abundance — A Climate and Security Nightmare?
Thoughts on the AI-Energy Security-Climate Nexus Climate Week in New York was inspiring. With a thousand-plus events, record-breaking international …
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Beyond the Monthly Bill — Rethinking Energy Accounting
Part two of the McGee Young interview: why energy behaves less like cash in a checking account and more like an asset on a balance sheet.
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Fix the Grid, Save the Planet
Part one of a conversation with WattCarbon founder McGee Young on why carbon accounting is broken — and how a market-based approach could fix it.
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The OBBBA Has Passed. What's Next for Energy Transition?
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act gutted many IRA clean energy incentives. What its passage means for EVs, solar, storage, and the energy transition.
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Is Energy Security the New Climate Change?
As clean energy faces US policy headwinds, energy security is emerging as the biggest global driver of decarbonization — and two new reports explain …
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Will AI Reverse the Clean Energy Transition? It's Complicated.
AI and data centers are fueling forecasts of soaring electricity demand. A threat to the clean energy transition — or are the projections overblown?
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Cleantech Insights — May 21, 2025
Big, Beautiful Bill House Republicans have advanced President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” out of committee, but …
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