Can We Trust Our Power Plants to Keep Us Cool During Dangerous Heat?
The question isn’t just how they suffer from climate change, but how they contribute to it.
CES 101: How a National Clean Energy Standard Can Advance Climate Action
Embedded in the Biden Administration’s new American Jobs Plan is a powerful, proven tool for cleaning up the power sector—and the economy as a whole—driving job creation in energy, and dramatically improving public health. Here’s what a clean energy standard is, and how it could help us make serious progress on climate change, and much […]
CES 101: How a National Clean Energy Standard Can Advance Climate Action
John Rogers/UCS Despite important progress in recent years, the power sector in the US is still a major source of emissions—both the air pollution that hurts public health and the heat-trapping emissions that cause climate change. The power sector is also important because electrification is an essential tool for getting off fossil fuels in other […]
US Targets 30,000 Megawatts of Offshore Wind. How We Get There
Derrick Z. Jackson The Biden administration has just set a goal of 30,000 megawatts of US offshore wind by 2030, and that’s got me thinking about the pieces that need to come together to make that possible. And there sure are a lot of them. The good news is that there’s positive movement with a […]
Polar Vortex Power Outages: 6 Things to Know about Supply, Demand, and our Electricity Future
climate.gov The Polar Vortex hitting much of the US has wreaked havoc not just on roadways and airports, but also on our electricity systems, as plenty are experiencing first-hand right now. Households, institutions, and communities across the region—and friends and family members—have been hit by power outages, and all that comes with them. Here are […]
