Most Americans want to save money, and most Americans want the US to deploy more renewable energy. What most Americans don’t realize is that we can do both — by generating more of that energy close to home. The traditional thinking is that economies of scale make large, remote power…

I’ve been wanting to write about time for years, but I haven’t had the time. I really have no good excuse. I don’t have children; I don’t work 12-hour days; I’m lucky not to have a long commute. …

My predominant feeling on awakening the morning of September 9, 2020 was confusion. I thought it was the middle of the night. The sun didn’t appear to have risen, and an eerie red glow emanated from the sky. The culprit was a thick but high layer of ashes and smoke…

California aims to get to 50% renewables by 2030 and 100% carbon-free electricity by 2045. How will we get there? To achieve our goals, we’ll need a mix of remote and local energy generation. With over 1 million solar roofs in the state and enough solar to power over 6…

This is the moment for microgrids. As the decade comes to a close, record wildfires in California and other disasters across the country, combined with the new normal of Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS), have catapulted microgrids into the spotlight. …

Energy resilience is a pressing need for our communities. Our centralized energy infrastructure is costly, aging, and inefficient, which makes it highly vulnerable. Extreme weather events are occurring more frequently and causing extended power outages. From January through September 2017 alone, the U.S. experienced 16 weather-related events that incurred damage…

They say a tree grows in Brooklyn, but how many grow in all of New York City? You can’t have too many, and now the city has a million more trees than it did just 8 years ago. New York is not the only city to see the value of…

UPDATED July 2022 A number of friends have asked me for information on going solar. Rather than keep sending the same emails about it over and over, I thought I’d consolidate the information here. Solar is getting cheaper all the time. So some people wonder if they should wait to…

Now several years into our Transmission Access Charges (TAC) Campaign, the Clean Coalition continues leading the effort to ensure that California’s ratepayers aren’t stuck with billions of dollars in unnecessary electric transmission spending. …