Rising demand for clean electricity and shifting customer demand has upended America’s utility sector, making building new fossil fuel generation a tricky proposition. A new DOE/LBNL report shows how utilities can avoid risky investments through flexible long-term planning.

Renewable energy and fossil fuel advocates have one thing in common – an unhealthy tendency to fall in love with a particular energy technology. Each has a cadre of vocal advocates, but each are a bit myopic. The problem is that picking winners and losers based on such biases sells the U.S. short.

A guest contributor for America’s Power Plan says creating portfolios of energy efficiency projects to deliver demand reductions where and when utilities need them can help keep pace with grid demand.

Three principles can help U.S. policymakers manage evolving wholesale markets to achieve a cleaner, more affordable, and more reliable grid.

Offshore wind energy’s costs are falling fast, just at technological innovations combine with smart state policy to generate huge investment opportunities for utilities and developers along with economic growth for states and communities along the U.S. coasts.

Analysis by Energy Innovation finds that extending California’s cap-and-trade program past 2020 will generate $26 billion in new revenue from 2021 to 2030 for clean energy investments across the state, will direct greater funds toward disadvantaged communities, and would make allowance use by polluters more stringent.

A new report from Climate Policy Initiative provides a clear answer to the question of how to balance grid supply and demand every minute of every day, at a competitive cost, as the share of variable renewable energy increases: focus on flexibility.

Bikes with electric assist—E-bikes—are taking off around the world, and for good reason: They are arguably the best form of motorized transportation and cut congestion, pollution, and noise, all at once.

Clean energy is taking over the world, driven by a combination of climate change policies and market economics. California has paced America in seizing this opportunity, building a thriving green economy through smart policy. But the fate of California’s cap-and-trade program, a cornerstone of the state’s green growth strategy, depends on the state Legislature extending the program beyond 2020.

Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s (BNEF) New Energy Outlook 2017 is the newest report to predict a diminishing role for fossil fuels as renewable energy and battery storage become cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable grid resources to 2040.