#Cleantechers, if you run point on community engagement for a renewable energy developer or EPC, you already know your work is harder than it was even a few years ago. Several factors have combined to harden the landscape you’re working on: 1) Standard development practices, combined with occasional missteps by some developers, … [continued]
To avoid the most catastrophic impacts of the climate crisis, we need to shift quickly from dirty fossil fuels to cleaner sources of energy. The good news is that we have the technology to decarbonize the electric sector, and its cost has plummeted — since 2010, the costs of solar, … [continued]
Plans to build the largest solar power plant in the US have been cancelled because of local opposition.
Almost half of clean energy projects proposed in recent years have been delayed or abandoned due to local opposition, according to a March report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. That’s a lot of development potential denied.
Successfully transitioning the United States to low‐carbon electricity will require an improved transmission infrastructure. Cities don’t grow where there’s too much wind. The best solar is far from us in our deserts. We need to build a supergrid like the national highway system we built in the 1930’s. But a … [continued]
