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 Archive
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 …
Seize the Future
The polycrisis is wreaking economic insecurity, mass death and genocide, climate disasters, and other kinds of instability on working people worldwide. Winning durable change requires a …
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 …
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), …
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 …
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 …
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. …
Primer: Green Industrial Strategy for Just Transitions
After forty years of neoliberal environmental and economic policy dominance, industrial policy is back at the center of agendas around the world. In the US, industrial …
An Economist’s Case for Restrictive Supply Side Policy
Until the rise of the Green New Deal, economists’ favored response to the climate crisis was some form of carbon pricing—leveraging the market to produce positive …
