Emerging technologies in the energy-generating resource space are inherently risky. Naturally, when we think about boundary-pushing advances in the energy industry, we should expect private investors to be reluctant to take on the burden of ushering these new technologies in. The case for small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) is instructive for why the public sector…
We’re excited to announce that Center for Public Enterprise will be partnering with Economic Security Project to provide technical assistance on the use of public financing tools for clean energy investments.
Center for Public Enterprise is launching a Public Development Community of Practice for PHAs, HFAs, and other local and state housing agencies to develop best practices for public development as a method of growing affordable multifamily housing production.
What Is Elective Pay (aka Direct Pay)? Here’s How It Makes Clean Energy Tax Incentives More Accessible
There’s been a lot of loose talk about politics, feasibility, and competency, but very little about financing, program design, and logistics. In this post we’ll dive into those admittedly knottier topics to elucidate what we’ve concluded some pundits are missing about public development in the United States. And we’ll make the case for why some…
This holism is a way of thinking about energy policy that takes an holistic view of the electric grid as both the network of transmission and distribution lines knitted together by substations, but also the sources and sinks of the electrons. To get the decarbonized energy future we desire we need to adopt a Grid…
Future efforts toward permitting reform should focus on the transmission infrastructure buildout that is needed for decarbonization of the electrical grid. A study by Princeton’s Net-Zero Lab finds that 80 percent of the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) emissions reduction benefits would be lost if the growth rate of transmission capacity remains at its recent diminished…