After more than a decade of public investment in clean energy in the United States, a wealth of studies makes clear that funding clean energy drives broad economic development and job creation.

When the Washington State Legislature passed the Climate Pollution Limits bill in 2020, it etched into law aggressive economy-wide carbon emissions limits to achieve by 2050. For the building sector, this translates into a 96% emission decrease below 2020 levels in three decades.

Eileen and Jeremy Hargreaves of Evolved Energy Research presented on state and regional pathways to carbon neutrality at the opening plenary of the Intermountain West Energy Sustainability & Transitions (I-WEST) Workshop, hosted by Montana State University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the U.S. Department of Energy.

Evolved Energy Research produced the final decarbonization pathways modeling on December 11, 2020.

Presentation of the Northwest Deep Decarbonization Pathways study to the Northwest Power Planning Council on August 13, 2019.

Meeting the Challenge of Our Time: Pathways to a Clean Energy Future for the Northwest explores multiple pathways for decarbonizing the region’s energy system, while addressing policy questions and potential implementation challenges in ...

The deep decarbonization framework for the Northwest deep decarbonization pathways study, Meeting the Challenge of Our Time: Pathways to a Clean Energy Future for the Northwest centers around five decarbonization strategies ...

Why should cities embrace a climate and clean energy agenda? Cities use 70% of global energy and therefore have a huge opportunity and responsibility to reduce their energy use and their greenhouse gas emissions. Half of the global population and ...

Portland, OR Mayor Charlie Hales released a draft Home Energy Score policy on September 7 that would require sellers of all single-family homes within the city limits to obtain a home energy performance report and disclose the results when listing...

Eileen edited this briefing paper authored by Elizabeth Willmott and published by Climate Solutions, which offers lessons learned from both the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and Washington State investments in single family residential retrofits since 2009 to inform a regional retrofit strategy for King County, WA.