Clean industry
Joe Biden’s Green New Steel
Steel-making is one of the world's most carbon-intensive industries. New technologies and proactive policy interventions could change that.
By Jay Stein .
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Solar
Instant permits for home solar? There's a SolarApp for that
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Clean industry
Have you heard about the Green New Steel?
Our lives are built on things we never think about.By Julian Spector .
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Guest essay
Net-Zero Banking Alliance’s carbon commitment: The good, the bad and the missing-in-action
The latest global banking coalition aligned with the Paris Agreement lacks the ambition required to reach net-zero emissions.By Jeanne Martin .
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Electrification
Designing air conditioners that won’t cook the planet
The Global Cooling Prize awards $1 million to designs that shave energy, reduce global warming and could make AC more affordable and eco-friendly for billions.By Jeff St. John .
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Policy & regulation
PJM moves to curtail compliance with FERC policy that hinders state-subsidized clean energy
A long-running policy battle over the country’s biggest capacity market appears to be nearing an end. What the replacement policy will look like remains an open question.By Jeff St. John .
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Climatetech finance
Clubhouse with Canary: Cleantech investing in 2021
There's a new generation of cleantech investors leveraging more capital, more entrepreneurs and more risk than ever before.By Eric Wesoff .
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Climate crisis
New satellites can mitigate methane’s outsize impact on climate change
MethaneSat and Carbon Mapper could give governments and industry new ways to find methane emissions — and to determine the value of stopping them.By Jeff St. John .
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Solar
GAF Energy has installed more solar roofs than Tesla
"The industry will evolve from rack-mounted to building-integrated PV."By Eric Wesoff .