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Community Solar in the Northwest
Cheaper, cleaner, quiet energy. It’s an easy sell. That’s why community solar farms have been sprouting up across the nation.
Nicole Larson
10/16/2019
Blog
Deep Decarbonization is Achievable in Northwest
The Clean Energy Transition Institute released Meeting the Challenge of Our Time: Pathways to a Clean Energy Future for the Northwest on June 5, 2019. This study is the first economy-wide analysis to examine decarbonization pathways...
Eileen V. Quigley
8/19/2019
Blog
Pathways to a Clean Energy Future
The Clean Energy Transition Institute commissioned an economy-wide deep decarbonization pathways study to serve as a blueprint for how Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington might achieve a low-carbon, clean energy economy...
Eileen V. Quigley
8/12/2019
Blog
Eight Decarbonization Scenarios
Meeting the Challenge of Our Time: Pathways to a Clean Energy Future for the Northwest explores multiple pathways for decarbonizing the region’s energy system, while addressing policy questions and potential implementation challenges in ...
Eileen V. Quigley
7/15/2019
Blog
Funding Workforce Development for Retiring Coal Plants
Hundreds of coal plants across the country have closed, with more shutdowns in the last two years than the previous decade.
Nick Montoni
6/4/2019
Blog
Out of Thin Air: BC Start-Up Aims to Produce Jet and Other Fuels from Atmospheric Carbon, Water, and Renewable Energy.
BC Start-Up Aims to Produce Jet and Other Fuels from Atmospheric Carbon, Water, and Renewable Energy.
Ross Macfarlane
6/4/2019
Blog
Decarbonizing Northwest Energy Systems
Clean Energy Transition Institute Board member Ross Macfarlane and Executive Director Eileen V. Quigley co-teach a course during Winter Quarter at Western Washington University’s Institute for Energy Studies, called Northwest Energy Systems and ...
Eileen V. Quigley
3/28/2018
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Low-Carbon Pathways: Electricity
Presentation that explores the low-carbon pathways for the electricity sector, delivered for Western Washington University Institute for Energy Studies course on January 23, 2018.
Eileen V. Quigley
1/23/2018
Blog
Why Electrify Everything?
A basic decarbonization tenet is to clean the grid, electrify whatever processes can be electrified, and leave as small as possible a remaining carbon budget for the sectors that are harder to decarbonize, such as aviation.
Eileen V. Quigley
1/23/2018
Blog
Cities' Path to 100% Clean, Renewable Energy
Although President Trump has committed to pulling the United States out of the Paris Climate Accord, many of our cities are still moving full steam ahead to clear the air and fight climate change. More than 200 U.S. municipalities have declared ...
Laurie Mazur
6/29/2017
Blog
All the King's Horses-Why Coal Isn't Coming Back
During his campaign, Donald Trump promised struggling coal mining communities that he would bring back all the jobs that have been disappearing over the past decades. Outlining his energy agenda last May, Trump told coal miners to...
Ross Macfarlane
2/16/2017
Blog
Here Comes the Sun
A clean electricity grid is a climate twofer: not only does a completely renewable power supply make it easier to decrease building sector and industry carbon emissions, it also paves the road for removing carbon pollution from the transport sector..
Eileen V. Quigley
11/1/2016
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