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The bipartisan permitting bill gets transmission right
The transmission and grid provisions in BAAJA are ambitious, going beyond the provisions of 2024’s EPRA bill. Most importantly, BAAJA gives FERC more statutory cover to take aggressive actions on grid development.
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Adapting regulatory structures from finance to frontier AI
This summer, two leading frontier AI labs disclosed that models they were testing had breached the systems of outside companies. In July, during an internal test of its hacking capabilities, an OpenAI model broke containment—extricating itself from its enclosed testing environment and reaching the open internet. Seven hundred agents spent roughly two and a half…
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National transmission needs study 2026
Our submission contributes to our team’s work identifying barriers to bankability for large-scale energy infrastructure and describing how public financing and planning tools can break coordination bottlenecks for transmission in particular, with benefits for the interconnection of large loads and clean energy generation resources.
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America’s Great Corridors of Commerce
The United States Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau is requesting comments on its proposed America’s Great Corridors of Commerce (AGCC) program, a “voluntary, applicant-driven process in which [right-of-way (ROW)] owners propose corridors for strategic colocation of utility infrastructure in the transportation ROW through an innovative public-private partnership (P3) model“. CPE is pleased to offer…
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The Shadow Pipeline: Estimating Entitled-But-Not-Permitted Multifamily
Federal housing statistics track a well-known sequence: permits, starts, construction, completions. These data points, published monthly by the Census Bureau and widely followed by policymakers, economists, and industry analysts, form the basis of nearly every conversation about whether the United States is building enough housing. But there is a critical stage of the development process…
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Accelerating speed to power
In September 2025, the Department of Energy’s Grid Deployment Office released a request for information (RFI) entitled “Accelerating speed to power.” CPE submitted a response in November 2025. Our submission contributes to our team’s work designing business models that states and the federal government can use to finance and build out a coordinated bulk power…
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Loans can stabilize transit funding
This piece is part of IFP’s Transit Abundance Playbook, a collection of proposals for reducing American transit construction costs. Summary Most federal support for US transit and rail capital projects comes in the form of discretionary grants, which warp incentives and drive up project costs. By contrast, predictable multi-year funding is the norm in peer…
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Negotiating on the public’s behalf
Across the country, jurisdictions are adopting innovative public sector investment models in which a housing authority subsidiary deploys a combination of a public land strategy, public financing tools, and tax incentives to ensure long-term affordability within mixed-income multifamily housing. Within the last three years, two notable and recently established entities, the Atlanta Urban Development Corporation…
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Contemporary zone-based industrial development models in the United States
When you hear of economic development “zones,” what comes to mind? The landscape of American economic development is full of them. Two famous programs are Opportunity Zones and Enterprise Zones, which are different flavors of tax incentives, both sector-agnostic. While they can be successful at attracting private investment to things like commercial office buildings and…
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A comprehensive energy resource planning process for New York
The Center for Public Enterprise and Clean Air Task Force offer the following comments in answer to New York Department of Public Service’s Solicitation Nos. 1468, 1482, and 1496 on the implementation of a Comprehensive Energy Resource Planning Process (CERPP). Repeated analyses confirm that New York’s current energy resource development system is structurally unable to…