After conducting a lay-of-the-land assessment of the Northwest clean energy economy, CETI is announcing our strategic focus for 2023.

CETI undertook an assessment of the current clean energy ecosystem in the Northwest and CETI’s role and impact. Here is what we learned.

The Clean Energy Transition Institute (CETI) is excited to release Preserving a Way of Life, the second short film in our Claiming Power: Stories of Rural Communities and Clean Energy project.

What a productive year we shared! In this final 2022 Clean Energy Transition Institute newsletter, we share a few news items, a brief round-up of what we accomplished this year, and our thanks.

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), and the CHIPS and Science Act are massive federal expenditures designed to combat climate change, spur a clean energy industrial revolution in the U.S., and create economic opportunity for millions of Americans.

On October 19, 2022, the U.S. Department of Energy awarded $2.8 billion to 20 recipients, two of which are located in Washington, to boost domestic production of batteries and critical minerals used in electric vehicles.

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.

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.

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.

Clean Energy Transition Institute Researcher Ruby Moore-Bloom and Research Fellow Claire Buysse have been researching how to decarbonize industrial emissions in Washington state for the past five months.

This guest lecture at Western Washington University talked about developing a clean energy workforce; reviewed clean energy job growth studies; discussed challenges with clean energy job projection; and described directing economic opportunity to historically excluded communities.

The first quarter of 2022 has flown by with the Clean Energy Transition Institute team hard at work on scaling building decarbonization; analyzing strategies for decarbonizing industrial emissions