Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 03:05:16 +0000
Latest RMI research outlines how the United States can establish global climate and clean energy leadership that capitalizes on regional strengths.
Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 03:07:16 +0000
Latest RMI research outlines how the United States can establish global climate and clean energy leadership that capitalizes on regional strengths.
Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2022 01:41:56 +0000
Why heat pumps are a cost-effective and climate-friendly solution for extreme heat waves and frigid winters. Summer in the northern hemisphere is just a few weeks old, but temperature records have already toppled as heat waves baked regions from Scandinavia to Japan to the United States. The heat came early in India and Pakistan this year, with weeks […]
Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 22:00:53 +0000
Leading lenders to the global aluminum sector — Citi, ING, and Societe Generale — are working together with RMI to develop a climate-aligned finance framework to help reduce the industry’s hard-to-abate emissions.
Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 14:37:11 +0000
The Community Energy Resilience Initiative (CERI), a collaboration between Fundación Comunitaria de Puerto Rico, RMI, and the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP), with support from Enel North America, presents a new model for scaling equitable access to resilient, renewable energy. Arecibo, Puerto Rico — June 9, 2022. Today, the Puerto Rico Community […]
Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 14:17:09 +0000
The Wisconsin Public Service Commission, which regulates public utilities in the state, is currently deciding what role the state’s energy efficiency program will play in developing the local market for heat pumps. Heat pumps are an efficient, climate-aligned solution for space heating and cooling that can perform well in Wisconsin’s cold climate. By replacing fossil fuel furnaces, heat […]
Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Sat, 28 May 2022 02:09:02 +0000
Are electric trucks viable today? Heck yeah! The Myth Many people think that electric trucks can’t do the job — they won’t have a long enough driving range, they will be too heavy, truckers won’t like them. However, that couldn’t be farther from the truth. “The framing of the problem is wrong,” says RMI Principal […]
Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 22:00:28 +0000
Late in 2021, Southern Company, the giant utility headquartered in Atlanta, announced it would pursue the retirement or conversion of 15 coal-fired generation units at its power plants, totaling nearly 9,000 MW of capacity. One Southern-owned plant was conspicuously absent from those plans: the Red Hills Generating Facility, a 440 MW lignite coal-fired power station in Ackerman, […]
Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 14:18:24 +0000
Report: In rural Nigerian communities, small electric vehicles powered by cost the same as fossil fuels and expand access to electricity RMI, Factor[e] Ventures and the UK-charity Shell Foundation show scaling electric mobility with a growing minigrid industry is profitable for both minigrid and electric vehicle operators and improves community access to transportation Abuja, Nigeria […]
Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:40:53 +0000
As the world works to lower greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, there is one super pollutant that is headed in the wrong direction. For the second year in a row, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) scientists observed record annual increases in atmospheric methane. And this year’s increase is the […]