Research
Energy & Industrial Systems
Planning, coordination, and public and community ownership are critical tools to embed justice in– and accelerate– the green transition. Our energy and industrial systems work covers critical areas of intervention to end carbon emissions, including: managing the decline of fossil fuels, planning for clean energy infrastructure and proposing new utility models, and coordinating green industrial systems to create a coherent transition.
Featured Research
Voters Support Phasing Out Fossil Fuel Extraction
Preventing catastrophic climate change impacts requires ending the extraction of fossil fuels, but the United States is on track to do the opposite. The US is …
Energy & Industrial Systems
The 2023 People Power for Public Power Summit: The State of the Movement
At this pivotal moment—of climate crisis, utility failures, and climbing prices—people from all walks of life in the United States are once more looking toward public …
Energy & Industrial Systems
Planning to Build Faster: A Solar Energy Case Study
Energy analysts suggest that the United States will need to build millions of acres of solar capacity—totaling an area potentially as large as West Virginia—to reach …
Energy & Industrial Systems
Seize the Future
The polycrisis is wreaking economic insecurity, mass death and genocide, climate disasters, and other kinds of instability on working people worldwide. Progressives must put forward policies …
Global Systems & Policy
Who Owns Power in the Energy Transition?
Governments globally have privatized and marketized the electricity sector as part of the larger economic trend toward neoliberalism over the past 50 years. Fully decarbonizing the …
Energy & Industrial Systems
Deconstructing Gas Industry Propaganda
What is gas industry propaganda? Gas is a huge industry. It encompasses companies that extract gas (e.g. through drilling or hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking), …
Energy & Industrial Systems
Public Power Resonates with Voters in Maine
The Climate and Community Project’s recent poll evaluated Mainers’ attitudes toward transitioning the entirety of Maine’s grid out of private ownership by the incumbent investor owned …
Energy & Industrial Systems
A Progressive Take on Permitting Reform
The climate crisis is hitting communities across the United States with increasing force—wildfire seasons become more extreme each year, hurricanes hit the Gulf Coast with more …
Energy & Industrial Systems
Building Decarbonization has a Natural Gas Pipeline Problem
A disorderly, market-based process to reduce greenhouse gases by removing appliances that burn natural gas from every home and building in the United States has begun. …
Energy & Industrial Systems
