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.

Eileen joined Oregon Environmental Council's Nora Apter at the Renewable Northwest Annual Member meeting to discuss how IRA provisions could apply the Washington 2021 State Energy Strategy and how CETI is modeling IRA incentives in the Net-Zero Northwest study.

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.

On September 8, 2022, the Clean Energy Transition Institute released Community-Defined Decarbonization: Reflecting Rural and Tribal Desires for an Equitable Clean Energy Transition in Washington.

With President Biden signing the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on August 16, we commence a new chapter that will hopefully begin to bend carbon emissions curves downward in the United States and avert a complete climate crisis.

President’s Biden’s recent announcement to invoke the Defense Production Act could expand domestic manufacturing of heat pumps. This blog summarizes the current policy landscape related to heat pumps in the U.S.

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 project provides analysis for six Washington manufacturing sectors—aluminum, concrete and cement, glass, iron and steel, pulp and paper, and wood products—to help stakeholders and policymakers understand the different methods for decarbonizing each of these industries.

This guest lecture at Western Washington University’s Institute of Energy Studies provided students with an overview of Washington’s climate and clean energy policies since 2019 and their relationship to the Washington 2021 State Energy Strategy.

A selection of some of the best podcasts and webinars on the latest technical and economic developments in decarbonization that the CETI team engaged with during the first three months of 2022.

After a whirlwind 60 days, Washington’s legislators finished the short 2022 session on March 10. While there were some climate wins, much work remains to be done on buildings and clean materials.