Electricity
FERC Could Slash Inflation and Double Renewables with These Grid Upgrades
You don’t have to be an economist to know that inflation is one of the chief financial challenges facing Americans today. Key indicators point to energy prices as a principal driver of the increased cost of living, as gasoline soars over $5 per gallon and natural gas spikes lead to…
Electricity Customers Are Getting Burnt by Soaring Fossil Fuel Prices
“Cost sharing” between customers and their utilities could have saved ratepayers at least $2 billion during the height of the pandemic.
Five Steps for Utilities to Foster Authentic Community Engagement
RMI shares best practices for engagement, based on our work collaborating with utilities and communities across the country.
Securitization in Action
As the cost of renewable energy continues to decline, over 12 gigawatts of coal capacity are set to retire in 2022 in the United States.
A Fair Green Deal for the Last Coal Plant in Mississippi
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…