EI’s Mike O’Boyle shares Colorado’s lessons learned in preventing utility monopsony power and how to replicate its competitive wind and solar bid results.

EI’s Mike O’Boyle interviews authors of a Sierra Club report on how utilities running uneconomic coal plants have overcharged customers by $3.5 billion.

EI’s Eric Gimon outlines how smart policy can overcome barriers on the grid to 100% clean energy targets to achieve a paradigm shift in the US power system.

EI’s Mike O’Boyle says by continuing to run and build uneconomic fossil fuel plants, Southeast U.S. utilities cost consumers millions and risk billions in stranded assets.

EI’s Eric Gimon outlines how smart policy can overcome barriers on the grid to 100% clean energy targets to achieve a paradigm shift in the US power system.

EI’s Mike O’Boyle says cheap clean energy prices make natural gas a risky economic bet for utilities, risking climate change and stranded assets.

EI’s Mike O’Boyle discusses a hidden billion-dollar coal bailout: Self-committing, or utilities scheduling uneconomic coal-fired plants to run at a loss even when cheaper electricity is available.

EI’s Silvio Marcacci says renewable energy jobs are booming just as the coal industry is contracting, even in America’s most coal-dependent regions.

EI’s Silvio Marcacci details new “coal cost crossover” research showing 74% of existing U.S. coal plants cost more to operate than replacing them with new local wind and solar.

APP’s Ron Lehr outlines financial tools which swap coal debt for clean energy equity to help utilities retire uneconomic coal generation early.

EI’s Silvio Marcacci says retiring Colorado coal plants could save $2.5 billion and a proposal in the state legislature could generate private investment to help utilities close plants while funding economic transition.

EI’s Mike O’Boyle outlines the “steel for fuel” strategy of swapping out coal for renewables while hitting the sweet spot on risk, return, and scale for utility customers and investors.

Former Colorado PUC Chair Ron Lehr outlines how utilities can profitably manage the financial transition from coal to clean being driven by fast-falling clean energy prices.

EI’s Megan Mahajan details how the price to build new renewable energy has fallen below the cost of running existing coal-fired power plants across the U.S.

EI’s Silvio Marcacci writes that a record-breaking offshore wind auction proves it is America’s biggest bipartisan success story.

An excerpt from EI’s new book Designing Climate Solutions outlines how de-risking renewable energy projects can accelerate investment and deployment of clean energy.

EI’s Sonia Aggarwal outlines how federal coal and nuclear bailout funding could be better spent investing in community redevelopment and worker transition.

EI’s Sonia Aggarwal outlines how billions in proposed coal and nuclear subsidies would be better spent on economic redevelopment for communities and workers in areas affected by plant closures.

EI’s Silvio Marcacci says a new survey shows renewable energy will be an increasingly attractive investment in the U.S. and could attract $1 trillion in cumulative private investment by 2030.

EI’s Mike O’Boyle says offshore wind may seem like a pricey option, but it’s actually an extremely valuable investment that’s about to reach cost-competitiveness in New York and New England, creating thousands of jobs along the way.

EI’s Mike O’Boyle says America’s offshore wind boom has finally arrived, as major project announcements in Maryland and Massachusetts combined with record-setting auctions expected in New York and New Jersey have set off a “race to the top” to capture clean energy’s economic opportunity.

EI’s Silvio Marcacci says renewables became the cheapest new U.S. power generation source in 2017, building new wind is often cheaper than running existing coal, and as renewable energy costs continue their relentless decline fossil fuels will fall further from profitability despite Trump Administration action.

Research shows Rick Perry’s coal and nuclear subsidy proposal could cost $10.6 billion per year, and would overwhelmingly flow to roughly 10 companies and 90 power plants.

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.

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.

Utilities across the United States continue to announce coal plant closures and reaffirm previous plans to remove coal from their generation fleets. What’s behind this trend? And how can U.S. utilities profitably transition themselves and affected coal communities to a 21st century generation mix?

Cheap natural gas and renewables are outcompeting coal-fired power plants on economics, pushing many of them into early retirement and leaving behind coal workers and communities. A newly proposed bill in Colorado aims to turn this economic challenge into an economic engine for utilities, electric consumers, and coal workers and communities.

Debates about the future of America’s electricity system have long centered on a binary choice between lowering costs or decreasing pollution. But that has changed. In many parts of the country, new renewables are simply the cheapest resource.

In 2004, Colorado voters bet on the outcome of costs dropping for wind and solar energy as they were used more — and it looks like the initiative’s promise is coming to fruition. Today, around 6,000 gigawatt hours (GWh) of generation from Colorado coal plants could be replaced with 2 gigawatts of wind while reducing costs passed onto ratepayers — without threatening reliability.

Policymakers rely heavily on quantitative analysis to understand how to manage rapid changes in the power sector, and quantitative analysis (particularly forward-looking projections) relies heavily on underlying assumptions. The quality and breadth of these assumptions are crucial to good decisions.