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Keep Solar Finance Weird? …Hopefully Not
If distributed solar is to attain anywhere close to the penetration levels RMI outlined in Reinventing Fire, its financing must become much more boring and less weird. It should start to look like everyday financing.
eLab Accelerator Part 1: Kickstarting Community Energy
This week, RMI kicks off eLab Accelerator, our bootcamp for electricity innovation. More than 100 participants from across the country are rolling up their sleeves to make rapid and targeted progress on the trickiest issues they’re facing.
Creating a Brighter Energy Future for Lake Wobegon
There are communities—towns, cities, and states—that have already begun the process of ensuring a prosperous and reliable energy future that does not rely on fossil fuels. Minnesota is one of those places beginning to consider an alternative energy future; this is the story of Lake Wobegon.
Charging on the Cheap: Making Electric Vehicles Mainstream
Electric vehicles need to be sold even faster, at lower costs, and in more places for Reinventing Fire’s vision of an oil-free transportation system by 2050 in the U.S. to become reality. For this to happen, three major challenges need to be overcome.
eLab Accelerator
eLab is using cutting-edge approaches to bring together incumbents and insurgents to look at the forces at play in the electricity industry.