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How US Cities and Corporations Can Collaborate on Clean Energy

  • Clean Energy
  • Business
  • Cities
  • renewable energy
  • COP26
Roof top solar installation with Midtown Manhattan view as background.
  • Clean Energy
  • Business
  • Cities
  • renewable energy
  • COP26

6 Ways Large Energy Buyers  Can Transform the US Electrical Grid 

  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • U.S. Climate
  • electric grid
  • Business
  • corporate sustainability
  • COP26
Dillon Wind Power Project
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • U.S. Climate
  • electric grid
  • Business
  • corporate sustainability
  • COP26

Besides Buying Renewables, How Can Companies and Cities Create a Greener Grid?

  • electric grid
  • Business
  • renewable energy
Power transmission lines seen from below.
  • electric grid
  • Business
  • renewable energy
Solar panels installed at the Googleplex.
  • adaptation finance
  • Business
  • renewable energy

U.S. Renewable Energy Map: A Guide for Corporate Buyers

  • electric grid
  • renewable energy
  • Business
  • Clean Energy
  • electric grid
  • renewable energy
  • Business
  • Clean Energy

What Are the Top 10 States for Clean Energy Jobs?

  • U.S. Climate
  • Energy
  • Business
  • energy efficiency
  • fossil fuels
  • renewable energy
  • U.S. policy
California solar plant.
  • U.S. Climate
  • Energy
  • Business
  • energy efficiency
  • fossil fuels
  • renewable energy
  • U.S. policy

States Use Renewable Energy to Win Corporate Business

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • electric grid
  • Energy Access
  • renewable energy
U.S. solar farm
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • electric grid
  • Energy Access
  • renewable energy
Insights

China is Leaving the U.S. Behind on Clean Energy Investment

  • Energy
  • Business
  • renewable energy
Installation of solar panels
  • Energy
  • Business
  • renewable energy

Former Energy CEO David Crane Envisions a Future without Fossils

  • Energy
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • fossil fuels
  • power plants
  • renewable energy
Coal-fired power plant in Ohio
  • Energy
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • fossil fuels
  • power plants
  • renewable energy

The Roads to Decoupling: 21 Countries Are Reducing Carbon Emissions While Growing GDP

  • Economics
  • Business
  • GHG emissions
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy
Wind turbines
  • Economics
  • Business
  • GHG emissions
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy

Microsoft and Local Utility Partner to Green Virginia’s Grid

  • Energy
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • electric grid
  • renewable energy
Potomac River power plant
  • Energy
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • electric grid
  • renewable energy
Data

Many Industries Can Find Water-Energy Connections Somewhere in Their Value Chains

  • Energy
  • Freshwater
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Gender
  • fossil fuels
  • renewable energy
  • water risk
  • Energy
  • Freshwater
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Gender
  • fossil fuels
  • renewable energy
  • water risk

Corporations Can Drive Down Renewable Energy’s Cost

  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • electric grid
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
The electricity system will have to be decarbonized, probably more quickly than many in the sector are comfortable with. Working with large buyers that want to move quickly could lead to decarbonizing in an orderly way that drives down the cost for everyone. Photo by Windwärts Energie/Flickr
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • electric grid
  • Energy
  • renewable energy

Clean Power Plan Can Help States, Economy and Planet

  • U.S. Climate
  • Energy
  • GHG emissions
  • climate policy
  • Business
  • energy efficiency
  • renewable energy
  • COP21
NASA image courtesy of the DSCOVR EPIC team
  • U.S. Climate
  • Energy
  • GHG emissions
  • climate policy
  • Business
  • energy efficiency
  • renewable energy
  • COP21

An Opportunity for Cooperative Clean Energy Solutions for Utilities and Companies

  • electric grid
  • Business
  • renewable energy
A solar array in California. Photo by Steve Jurvetson/Flickr.
  • electric grid
  • Business
  • renewable energy

Al Gore: A New Kind of Tipping Point for Climate Action

  • Energy
  • Business
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy
WRI President and CEO Dr. Andrew Steer with former Vice President Al Gore. The World Resources Institute hosts a reception and dinner, followed by a conversation with former Vice-President Al Gore at the Swedish Embassy (The House of Sweden) in Washington, DC on Wednesday, October 8, 2014.  Photo credit: James R. Brantley
  • Energy
  • Business
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy

Tackling U.S. Corporations’ 3 Challenges to Buying Renewable Energy

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • renewable energy
Sixty percent of the largest U.S. companies have set climate and energy goals to increase their use of renewable energy. Photo credit: Thomas Rousing, Flickr
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • renewable energy
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset