Electrification

Energy efficiency

The secret of home energy efficiency? Don’t talk about home energy efficiency

Residential retrofit startups agree: Energy savings must pay for quality-of-life improvements to grow business and bring in lower-cost capital.

By Jeff St. John . 24 June 2021
Policy & regulation

Newsletter: Oregon shows how to broaden the coalition for ambitious climate policy

Take a look at what Oregon's doing.

By Julian Spector . 24 June 2021
Batteries

Could installing batteries under solar panels kick-start the commercial building market?

Yotta Energy thinks batteries could become as common as microinverters on commercial solar rooftops, and has built in thermal safety features to win over skeptics.

By Jeff St. John . 22 June 2021
Clean industry

G2 Venture Partners will invest $500M in companies cleaning up legacy industries

Buoyed by some initial exits, G2 now has even more money to work with.

By Julian Spector . 17 June 2021
Grid edge

Housing developers and utilities join forces to create the next generation of microgrids

Sharing rooftop solar, batteries and grid controls between utilities and customers is a complex undertaking, but it could yield benefits greater than the sum of their parts.

By Jeff St. John . 15 June 2021
Climate crisis

Inside the industry-enviro partnership that scored a big climate win on HFCs

The US is now poised to curb use of super-climate-warming refrigerants, one of this century's most significant climate mitigation efforts.

By Jay Stein . 14 June 2021
Opinion

Building retrofits can duplicate the success of wind and solar power

Smart government policies have spurred rapid acceleration in renewable energy. They can do the same for building efficiency upgrades.

By Richard Roberts . 9 June 2021
Electric vehicles

Tackling the electric vehicle buyer gap

Electric car sales skew toward the wealthy. Can stronger incentives and better program design change that?

By Emma Foehringer Merchant . 7 June 2021
Electrification

Newsletter: 3 ways your home can tap into the future of energy

Julian is back from the long weekend.

By Julian Spector . 3 June 2021
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 . 3 June 2021