Community solar is increasingly seen as a beneficial solution for climate resilience, expanded renewable energy generation, cost savings, and equitable access to the benefits of solar energy.

With the end of 2022 in sight, I bring you our penultimate newsletter for the year with updates on how the Clean Energy Transition Institute carried out our ambitious clean energy transition agenda in November.

President Biden signed the historic Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law on August 16, 2022. Here is a roundup of our favorite resources that have helped us understand the IRA’s role in accelerating the clean energy transition.

Mariah Caballero presented the findings from the Community-Defined Decarbonization report on a panel at the 2022 Washington Solar Summit focused on Tribal energy resilience and climate action.

Harvesting the Sun tells the stories of three Washington state businesses in Jefferson and Clallam counties that have benefited from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Rural Energy for America (REAP) program.

Filmmaker Jessica Plumb takes us behind the scenes of Harvesting the Sun, the first in a series of short films produced for CETI’s Claiming Power project.

This project aimed to: (1) understand the barriers to decarbonizing buildings for the state’s rural and Tribal low-income, energy-burdened households, and (2) determine whether decarbonization strategies and clean energy development could address energy inequities in these communities.

The Clean Energy Transition Institute (CETI) designed the Atlas to provide regional stakeholders with interactive visualizations that explore energy data relevant to deep decarbonization in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.

A selection of some of the best podcasts and webinars on developments in decarbonization since our First Quarter DecarbCast.

The Clean Energy Transition Institute team has had quite a productive year to date, working on building and industrial decarbonization and exploring rural clean energy in the region.

Eileen presented to the K&L Gates Environmental Law Practice Group, which described the evolution and common findings of deep decarbonization pathways studies that have been performed in the Northwest since 2018.

This blog helps users understand how to navigate the Northwest Clean Energy Atlas, launched by CETI in May 2022.