If most truck journeys are less than 300 miles the E-Truck revolution can...
What proportion of trucks today could go electric? That’s the question Emily Porter at RMI has asked for California and New York. The answer is 65% of medium-duty trucks and 49% of heavy-duty trucks....
View ArticleU.S. FERC proposal for grid planning has serious flaws around benefits and...
The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is in the midst of a key rulemaking on planning and building an electric grid. But the plan has serious flaws, says Mike Jacobs at UCS, rooted in...
View ArticleRenewables “cost of capital” in Europe lower than oil, gas, coal. What the...
The ultimate price of anything is highly dependent on the cost of capital needed to put it in place. That cost reflects the risks financial markets perceive. And policy certainty reduces risk. Gireesh...
View ArticleCredit Rating Agencies: a guide to pricing in long-term climate risks
Nobody wants share, stock and bond prices to fall off a cliff unexpectedly. But while Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs) continue to evaluate based on short-term policy changes and market forces without...
View ArticleElectric Utilities: ESG investors should invest in, not avoid, the...
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings point climate-conscious investors away from companies that are not decarbonising fast enough (or at all!). But surely they should be doing the exact...
View ArticleEvidence of a direct link between Wildfires and Fossil Fuel firms. Can it be...
Wildfires are back in the news. The link to rising global temperatures caused by climate change is clear. Mark Specht at the Union of Concerned Scientists summarises their study that, for the first...
View ArticleFirst-of-a-kind U.S. utility pilots community Geothermal to cut emissions and...
For the first time in the U.S. a utility is piloting a community geothermal project to heat and cool 40 buildings and cut customers’ bills. Success will lead to scale up and replication, explains Adele...
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