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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…
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Who doesn’t want to end the housing shortage?
I’m staying up late to write a rare unvarnished and I suppose somewhat personal blog post tonight that I would like everyone in our weird little world who cares about the housing shortage to read. It won’t be that long, and if that describes you, you should read it. I want all of us to…
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Next-generation geothermal project finance
Despite the technical similarities between next-generation geothermal and shale fracking, next-generation geothermal technologies are an altogether different asset class—and, as such, their deployment at scale requires a different approach to the problem: project finance.
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States expand revolving loan funds for mixed-income housing
Over the past year, a growing number of state governments have capitalized revolving loan funds (RLFs), empowering their housing finance agencies to finance mixed-income housing outside of the typical LIHTC pipeline. In a blog post last September and a report published in December, we covered the initial round of investments in Massachusetts, Michigan, New York,…
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Geothermal demonstrations get their day
This week, the Department of Energy (DOE) released a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) announcing the the largest single tranche of funding for enhanced geothermal energy systems in the history of the sector: $171.5 million in grant capital to support research, development, and, most importantly, early commercial demonstration of enhanced and conventional geothermal systems. This…
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The path forward for nuclear tax credit monetization
Nuclear developers have practical reasons to be concerned that the investment tax credit, large as it is, cannot easily provide them with upfront construction-period support.