The Washington State Department of Commerce engaged the Clean Energy Transition Institute (CETI) in March to provide technical consultation to Commerce, the Governor’s office, and an Advisory Committee in developing the Washington 2021 State Energy Strategy.

We are pleased to announce that the Washington State Department of Commerce chose us to provide technical expertise to help develop the 2021 Washington State Energy Strategy.

The 2020 Washington state legislative session ended on Thursday, March 12, 2020. While a short session, several important clean energy bills passed.

In the event that Democrats win back the Senate in 2020, current Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) would introduce a proposal to speed up the transition to electric vehicles that would eliminate carbon emissions from approximately 65 million gas-powered cars.

As someone who spends her waking hours working to accelerate the clean energy transition, I disagree strongly with critics who suggest that Washington Governor Jay Inslee’s aborted presidential campaign was a flop.

Once a community’s overall sources and uses of energy are established, citizens and government officials must determine how to focus their emission-reduction efforts. To do so, they can use a carbon wedge analysis...

Newly elected Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan wasted no time making clear her commitment to serious climate action, announcing new carbon emission-reduction initiatives for transportation and buildings on April 4, 2018...

Thank you very much for the opportunity to share my observations about how local government can accelerate clean energy in Washington State. My name is Eileen Quigley and I direct Clean Energy Transition, a Seattle, WA-based organization that ...

President Donald Trump kicked off a campaign rally in the coal-dependent state of West Virginia on August 3, with this assertion that he is reviving the moribund coal industry and putting miners back to work. How does this claim hold up?

With cities accounting for 70% of global carbon emissions, and half the world and 80 percent of Americans living in urban environments, cities should play a critical role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

A clean electricity grid is a climate twofer: not only does a completely renewable power supply make it easier to decrease building sector and industry carbon emissions, it also paves the road for removing carbon pollution from the transport sector..

What a difference five years has made! In 2010, the outlook for significant climate action was bleak, with the dismal Copenhagen Climate Summit that failed to produce an agreement on legally binding carbon emission reduction commitments, and ...