Biting the Biggest Apple: New York’s New Plan to Reward Distributed Energy Resources
7 years 2 months ago
How do we compensate those who add clean electricity to our shared power grid? This fundamental question has affected the rate at which the U.S. has adopted, deployed, and put into use clean, distributed energy resources such as energy efficiency, batteries, electric vehicles, and rooftop and community solar. At the core of our new distributed […]
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Groundbreaking Study Shows New Coal Plants are Uneconomic in 97 Percent of US Counties
7 years 5 months ago
At Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), we understand that market forces can drive either a healthy environment – or harmful pollution. I recently wrote about how generating electricity often creates pollution, which comes with environmental and health costs that are usually not paid for by the polluters. That’s why EDF works to identify and correct market […]
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The True Cost of Electricity: What We’re Not Paying for Through Our Utility Bills
8 years ago
The price we all pay for electricity generally does not reflect the “true costs” of producing it. As described in a recent blog post, generating electricity creates harmful pollution, damaging the environment and public health. This comes with a cost, but it is not necessarily paid for by those generating the pollution or purchasing the […]
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