Sonia Aggarwal

Chief Executive Officer

Sonia Aggarwal is the Chief Executive Officer of Energy Innovation, where she leads the organization and works closely with partners and policymakers on effective climate and clean energy policies across North America, Asia, and Europe.

Prior to this role, Sonia served as Special Assistant to the President for Climate Policy, Innovation, and Deployment in the Biden administration, where she helped to develop the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and to set the nation’s high-level climate targets including the commitment to cut economy-wide greenhouse gases by 50-52 percent below 2005 levels in 2030. Sonia also co-chaired the Biden administration’s Climate Innovation Working Group and focused federal initiatives to reinvigorate clean energy manufacturing across the country.

Sonia was a founding director of Energy Innovation, building Energy Innovation’s policy research, modeling, and analysis teams over eight years until she was appointed to serve in the Biden administration. Sonia has deep experience in energy modeling, analysis, and policy design in many of the world’s largest-emitting countries and regions. She spearheaded creation of America’s Power Plan, a platform to identify innovative thinking on decarbonization policy solutions for affordable, reliable electric power.

Before Energy Innovation, Sonia managed global research at ClimateWorks Foundation, worked on the McKinsey carbon abatement cost curves, advised the International Energy Agency’s “Accelerating Technology Transitions” project, advised clean energy companies on technology and financial communications, and worked in accident prevention design engineering at a nuclear power plant. In 2019, she received the U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Energy Education and Empowerment Award.

Sonia holds a B.S. from Haverford College in astronomy and physics, and an M.S. from Stanford University in engineering, focused on energy.

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Works from Sonia Aggarwal

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Evergreen Action Lays Out Climate Road Map For Harris

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What Trump And Biden Really Mean When They Fight About Electric Vehicles

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America Is On The Doorstep Of An Industrial Transformation. Here’s How To Make It Happen

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How Biden Would Address Climate Change In A Second Term

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Federal Policy To Decarbonize U.S. Industry

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Utilities Can Meet Growing Power Demand Without Fossil Fuels | Opinion

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Whitmer Joins Advocates In Laying Out Clean Energy Future Plan Benefits

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The Clean Energy Future Plan: How Michigan Won A Leading Climate Package

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2023 In Climate News: Did Renewable Energy’s Surge Keep Pace With A Radically Warming Climate?

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How 2023 Changed The Way States Do Climate Policy

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Checks And Balance: COP To It

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A $30 Billion Meltdown In Clean Energy Puts Biden's Climate Goals At Risk

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An Insider's View Of The Biden Years In Clean Energy Policy

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From Solar Panels To National Policies, What Climate Solutions Actually Help?

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A Year In, Landmark U.S. Climate Policy Drives Energy Transition But Hurdles Remain

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USSP Japan: U.S.-Japan Climate Partnership: Technology And Innovation

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Can Biden Achieve His Cornerstone Climate Goal? Why 100% Clean Power Is Still Out Of Reach

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A Clean And Profitable Era Dawns For Rural Electric Cooperatives

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America's Green Industrial Strategy 2.0

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Sonia Aggarwal Returns To Energy Innovation As CEO

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Fact-Checking Three Claims About The GOP Oil Bill And White House Response

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Party Like It's 2035

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The Costs Of Delay

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A ‘Nerve Center’ For Climate In The Biden White House

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Biden Adds 6 Policy Experts To His Climate Team

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Biden Taps Climate Experts

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Biden-Harris Team Appoints More White House Staff, Among Them Indian-American Climate Expert

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EI's Sonia Aggarwal Appointed To White House Office Of Domestic Climate Policy

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The Making of Biden’s Superfast Push for Clean Electricity

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Energy News Network’s 2020 40 Under 40 Honorees

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Berkeley study: 90% carbon-free electricity achievable by 2035

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Pathways to 100 Percent Zero Carbon Power by 2035 Without Increasing Customer Costs

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Five Technological Pathways To Reach A 100 Percent Clean Electricity Future: Delivering Enormous Health And Job Benefits Without Increasing Customer Costs

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Hydrogen, Carbon Capture Key To Net-Zero U.S. Electricity: Study

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How Much Investment Is Needed For A Clean Energy Future?

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To Prevent Blackouts, California Needs More Clean Energy – And A Bigger, Better Run Grid

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Economic and Clean Energy Benefits of Establishing a Southeast U.S. Competitive Wholesale Electricity Market

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Biden Gambles On Placing Climate Change At Heart Of US Energy Policy

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13 Major climate change reports released so far in 2020

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Biden’s Climate Plan Shows Net Zero is Now Mainstream

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What Can You Do To Fight The Climate Crisis?

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Can The Clean Energy Industry Deliver On The Biden-Sanders Climate Plan?

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What Does The Democrats' Plan Have To Say About Environmental Justice

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Biden-Sanders Task Force Proposals Could Actually Move The Needle On Climate Action

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Calls Grow Louder For Biden To Strengthen His Climate Goals

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The Next Energy Battle: Renewables vs. Natural Gas

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House Democrats Release 'Bold' Plan to Tackle Carbon Emissions by 2050

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House Democrats Release Sweeping Climate Proposal Calling For Net-Zero US Emissions By 2050

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House Democrats Spell Out Climate, Clean Energy Priorities In Sweeping Plan

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Modeling The House Select Committee On The Climate Crisis' Action Plan

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House Democrats Lay Out New Roadmap For Cutting U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Democrats To Unveil Bold New Climate Plan To Phase Out Emissions By 2050

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Dems Map Path To Clean Energy, Environmental Justice

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House Democrats Just Put Out The Most Detailed Climate Plan In US Political History

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Democrats Unveil Sweeping Plan To Tackle Climate Change

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Democrats’ Ambitious Climate Action Plan Targets A Clean US Grid By 2040

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How To Get To 90% Clean Energy By 2035

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A 90% Clean Grid Can Be Achieved Quickly. What’s Holding It Back?

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The Covid-19 Economic Slump Is Closing Down Coal Plants

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Unpacking The 90% Renewable Energy In US By 2035 Scenario

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90% Clean Power By 2035 Is ‘Challenging But Feasible’

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Report: By 2035, 90 Percent of the US Could be Powered By Renewables

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Reaching 90 Percent Clean Electricity In The U.S. By 2035

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The U.S. Energy Grid Can Be Both Cheaper And Cleaner

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Rewiring The U.S. For Economic Recovery

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90% Clean Grid by 2035 Is Not Just Feasible, But Cheaper, Study Says

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Falling Renewable, Storage Costs Make 90% Carbon-Free US Grid Feasible By 2035, UC Berkeley Finds

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The U.S. Can Get To 90% Clean Electricity In Just 15 Years

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My Climate Journey, with Sonia Aggarwal

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Ohio Policies Cushion The Pandemic’s Impact On Electric Utilities

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Increasing Renewables And DER Demand New Reliability Approach, But California Is Falling Short, Groups Say

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Cheapest Is Not Always Best: Concentrated Solar Power Could Beat Lower Price PV With New Market Rules

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FERC Critics Cry Bailout By Another Name

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Power to the people: Bernie calls for federal takeover of electricity production

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Pathways To Net Zero Carbon Buildings In Reach Around The World Today

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A decade in review: the most underrated clean energy stories

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The new infrastructure required to address climate change

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What Will It Take to Clean Up the Electric Grid?

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Battery prices are crashing. That’s good news.

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This Is How The U.S. Gets To Zero Carbon Emissions By 2050

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Getting to Net Zero Emissions Using the Energy Policy Simulator

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Building Electrification: Research Perspectives On Technologies, Policies, And Mitigation Strategies

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Coal Miners Doubt Promises Of An Inclusive Energy Transition

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Building Electrification Could Add Hundreds Of Millions Of Batteries To The Grid

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A Quick Shift To Electric Vehicles Could Drive The Green New Deal Forward

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Broad US Power Sector Emissions Reduction Feasible, But Influencing Decision Makers Is Key

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Nearly Two Dozen Democrats Want To Be President. Only Two Have A Climate Change Plan.

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Climate Change Triggers "Bomb Cyclone" As Devastation Rages Across U.S. Central States

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Power Markets in Transition: Consequences of Oversupply and Options for Market Operators

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How Some Countries Are Solving Climate Change

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Renewables + Storage = Cheaper than Coal

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Renewables + Storage = Cheaper than Coal

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How Some Countries Are Solving Climate Change

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PUC Order Keeps Minnesota Ahead Of The Curve On Performance-Based Rates

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Grid Mod: Transactive And Distributed Tech Demand A New Approach

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Business models: What Utilities Can Learn From Amazon And Netflix About The Future Of Ratemaking

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Finding (Politically Viable) Climate Solutions As The Stakes Rise

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California Could Be Hit With Host Of Different Climate Change Issues

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Advocates: Trump’s Coal-Friendly Power Plan Will Hurt Ohio’s Health

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Trending Topics - Proactive Support For Coal And Nuclear Plant Communities 

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Ohio PUC Details Utility Reform Roadmap In PowerForward Initiative

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Redirecting Trump’s Coal and Nuclear Bailout to Fund Economic Redevelopment

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Billions At Stake: Should We Invest In Struggling Power Plants Or Communities Facing Closures?

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What's The Plan?

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Redirecting Federal Funds Toward Coal And Nuclear Plant Communities

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Arizona Regulators Open First US Transactive Energy Docket

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As The Power Sector Transforms, Can Utilities And Customers Find Common Ground On Ratemaking?

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Republican Opponent Of Trump’s Coal Bailout Resigns After Only A Year As Energy Regulator

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Refining Competitive Electricity Market Rules To Unlock Flexibility

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Net-Zero Emissions Energy Systems

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Refining Competitive Electricity Market Rules To Unlock Flexibility

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Should The Regulatory Two-Step Give Way To A New, Performance-Based Dance?

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What Trump’s “Unprecedented” Power Plant Bailout Could Mean For The Ohio Valley

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The Rise Of Performance-Based Regulation And Other Policy Developments

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America's Utility Of The Future Forms Around Performance-Based Regulation

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FirstEnergy Emergency Request Could Be A Last Chance To Help Coal Power

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Public Utilities Commission of Ohio PowerForward: Ratemaking Perspectives

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PUCO PowerForward: Utility Ratemaking, Methods for Cost Recovery

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Two Cutting-Edge Energy Efficiency Companies Team Up to Capture Growing Market

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Global Cooling Is On The Brink Of A Huge Economic Boom. Which Countries Will Tap The Opportunity?

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Bomb Cyclone And NOPR Redux: What The Grid Really Needs

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Predictions 2018: Looming Trade Case Clouds Solar's Future

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Blockchain, Drones Are Strategies For Survival At Japan's Tepco

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Predictions 2018: Federal Policies To Dominate

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New Year, New Energy

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Trending Topics – A Year-End Update On Electricity Policy From The Field

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A Year-End Update On Electricity Policy From The Field

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VERGE Influencers Offer Reasons To Be Hopeful In 2018

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PUCO Chairman Focused On Modernizing Electricity Grid

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The China Belt And Road Initiative Could Help - Or Hurt - Clean Energy In Emerging Economies

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The Best Defense Is A Good Offense: Five Opportunities For Renewable Energy Developers Under Trump

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Iowa Utility Seeks Millions For Grid, But Offers Few Details

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Who Needs A NOPR? Seven Ways To Make Wholesale Power Markets More Reliable

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What's A DOE NOPR To Do?

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Looking Beyond DOE’s NOPR, A Case For Grid Flexibility Alongside Reliability

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A Roadmap For Finding Flexibility In Wholesale Markets

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Trending Topics – Emerging Lessons on Performance-Based Regulation From the United Kingdom

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Emerging Lessons On Performance-Based Regulation From The United Kingdom

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A Trio Of Storms Could Mean Grid Modernization In Hard-Hit Areas

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California’s Big Battery Experiment: A Turning Point For Energy Storage?

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Future Wholesale Markets And Implications For Retail Markets

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East Coast States Take Lead in Offshore Wind After Paris Accord

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CDEF 2017: The Role of Rate Design in a Distributed Energy Market

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Utility Models: Questions For Regulators And Stakeholders To Ask And Answer As Utilities Evolve

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Getting the Most out of Grid Modernization

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Was 2016 the Year for Wholesale Power Market Reform?

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President Trump and the clean energy future

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Climate and Energy Policy Solutions for China: Executive Summary

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Metrics for Energy Efficiency: Options and Adjustment Mechanisms

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Grid Flexibility: Methods for Modernizing the Power Grid

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Improving Performance in Publicly Owned Utilities

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2016 Is the Year for Wholesale Power Market Reform

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3 Ways Public Power Providers Can Prepare for Technology and Market Changes

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Improving Performance in Publicly-Owned Utilities

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Energy Policy Solutions: How to Take Control of America's Energy Future

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Energy Policy Solutions - Panel Discussion

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Energy Policy Solutions: The Clean Power Plan is Within Reach

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The Costs of Delay: Waiting Until 2020 Could Cost Nearly $400 Billion

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A Tale of Two Regions: Why Wind Is Booming in Texas and Stalling in the West

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From Old to New: How Rethinking Regulation Can Deliver a Smarter Electricity System

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Time for electricity markets to catch up

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Distribution Optimization: Ready for Takeoff (part 2)

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Should Utilities Own Distributed Battery Storage?

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America's Power Plan: The top 5 trends in the US energy transformation

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Distribution Optimization: Ready for Takeoff (part 1)

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Driving Blind: The Worst Examples of Outdated Data Skewing Renewable Energy Projections

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China Government Study Sees 86% Renewables by 2050

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Do Pay-for-Performance Capacity Markets Deliver the Grid Resiliency Outcomes We Need?

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Accelerating Carbon Reductions from California's Electricity Sector

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Renewables Curtailment: What we can Learn from Grid Operations in California and the Midwest

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Power Systems of the Future

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Greasing the Electric Grid, the World's Largest Machine (Op-Ed)

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Clean Energy, Batteries Not Included (Op-ed)

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New Regulatory Models

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Rethinking Policy to Deliver a Clean Energy Future

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A New Approach to Capabilities Markets: Seeding Solutions for the Future

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How Do You… Predict Future Weather?

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Wild Weather: The New Normal?

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The Extremes Become the Norm

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Energy Technology Innovation Leadership in the 21st Century

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Two Kinds of Demand-Response

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Renewable Energy Policy Experience: Lessons for Japan

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The Costs of Delay