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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

Corporate Buyers of Renewable Energy Get Louder—and More Diverse

  • Business
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
As demand for renewable energy expands, so too are our efforts to facilitate further collaborations to open new markets for clean power.  Photo by Daniel Hoherd/Flickr.
  • Business
  • Energy
  • renewable energy

The Clean Power Plan: What’s Water Got To Do With It?

  • U.S. Climate
  • Freshwater
  • Aqueduct
  • climate policy
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • Energy
  • water risk
When it comes to water and fracturing, it’s all about location and time. Photo by Simon Fraser University/Flickr.
  • U.S. Climate
  • Freshwater
  • Aqueduct
  • climate policy
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • 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

6 Stories to Watch in 2015: Global Climate Deal, Sustainable Development Goals, Rising Water Risks and More

  • Finance
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • UNFCCC
  • United Nations
  • U.S. policy
  • water risk
  • stories to watch
Andrew Steer presented 2015's Stories to Watch before a packed house at the Press Club in Washington, D.C. Photo by Bill Dugan/WRI
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • UNFCCC
  • United Nations
  • U.S. policy
  • water risk
  • stories to watch

RELEASE: New Analysis Highlights Opportunities for Economic Gains from Climate Action in the United States

  • Business
  • GHG emissions
  • Energy
  • energy efficiency
  • power plants
  • U.S. policy
  • Business
  • GHG emissions
  • Energy
  • energy efficiency
  • power plants
  • U.S. policy

RELEASE: New Analysis Finds 38% of World’s Shale Resources Face Water Stress

  • Freshwater
  • Business
  • Energy
  • fossil fuels
  • water risk
  • Freshwater
  • Business
  • Energy
  • fossil fuels
  • water risk

ADVISORY: Press Call: How Water Risk Affects Global Shale Development

  • Freshwater
  • Business
  • Energy
  • fossil fuels
  • water risk
  • Freshwater
  • Business
  • Energy
  • fossil fuels
  • water risk

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

How Green Tariffs Can Benefit Utilities and Consumers

  • Business
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
Duke Energy’s 16-megawatt DC (14-megawatt AC) Blue Wing Solar Project in San Antonio, Texas consists of nearly 215,000 photovoltaic solar panels and is one of the largest PV solar farms in the United States. | Photo Credit: Duke Energy/Flickr
  • Business
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset