Electric vehicles
Tackling the electric vehicle buyer gap
Electric car sales skew toward the wealthy. Can stronger incentives and better program design change that?
Policy & regulation
Clean fleets
‘Green bank’ launches $250M effort to electrify California’s port trucks
The program, from Climate United and Forum Mobility, will help secure the EV trucks and charging stations needed to phase out diesel trucks at the state’s busy ports.
By Jeff St. John .
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Nuclear
Low prices in PJM’s capacity auction spell trouble for Exelon’s Illinois nuclear fleet
A long-delayed auction yields lower-than-expected prices in the country’s biggest capacity market. That’s bad news for struggling nuclear power plants.By Jeff St. John .
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Clean fleets
What the electric bus industry could do with a multibillion-dollar federal investment
Major e-bus makers Proterra and Vicinity Motor make the case for a national bus electrification strategy.By Gordon Feller .
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Electrification
Newsletter: 3 ways your home can tap into the future of energy
Julian is back from the long weekend.By Julian Spector .
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Electrification
The case for upfront incentives to electrify everything in US homes
A report from Rewiring America and the Center for American Progress asks policymakers to make the replacement of electric appliances as cheap and easy as possible.By Jeff St. John .
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Solar
Colorado is poised to give a new boost to distributed solar and battery systems
Pending legislation could expand scope of behind-the-meter and community solar and battery installations.By Jeff St. John .
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Opinion
Top 10 state energy legislative issues of 2021
Bill filings show environmental justice, electric vehicles and energy jobs in transition are on state lawmakers’ mindsBy Sarah Steinberg .
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Guest essay
FERC must fix its broken approach to pipelines
Democrats have the opportunity to reshape the pipeline approval process to account for climate impacts.By Max Sarinsky, Sarah Ladin .
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Clean energy
ARPA-E’s new focus: Bridging the valleys of death for cleantech R&D
The nation's top energy research agency wants to scale up “high-risk and potentially disruptive” tech to meet urgent decarbonization goals.By Jeff St. John .
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Guest essay
Making Biden’s historic commitment to energy equity a reality
Fulfilling the potential of Biden's energy equity promises will require time and ongoing commitment.By John Hall .
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