The CETI team listens to a wide range of podcasts covering issues related to our program areas to help keep us informed on the latest developments in decarbonization and the clean energy transition. Every year, we compile a list of our favorites. Here are our picks for 2025.

As Northwest utilities decide to participate in day-ahead electricity markets, the landscape of western power markets takes shape.

Siting and permitting rules are designed to protect communities, ecosystems, cultural and natural resources, and public health, but dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s can cause delays and increase costs. Striking the right balance between responsible land use and rapid development of clean energy resources has emerged as one of the region’s most pressing issues.

In this piece, Ruby explores strategies to protect ratepayers from bearing the cost of the infrastructure and transmission investments needed to support data center growth in the Northwest and highlights a policy to that effect that passed in Oregon’s 2025 session

In a new set of visualizations, we present data onWashington and Oregon’s electricity utility resources and their greenhouse gas emissions.

The CETI team recaps the clean energy- and climate-related bills that Oregon legislators considered during the 2025 state legislative session.

In 2025, the Washington lawmakers took up many bills related to climate and the clean energy transition. CETI recaps key pieces of legislation that made it over the finish line and those that did not.

A recap of policies related to energy and climate that passed through Montana's legislature in 2025.

CETI gives an overview of the energy- and climate-related bills that moved through Idaho's legislative session in 2025.

On April 22, 2025, the Clean Energy Transition Institute (CETI) hosted a Decarbonization Forum during which a panel of experts explored the impact of data center energy use on the Northwest’s energy grid and clean energy transition.

In the past several years, geothermal has emerged as a clean, firm resource with the potential to be scalable and cost-effective.

We explore the mix of utilities—including investor-owned, public utility districts, municipal utilities, Tribal utilities, and cooperatives—that make up the Northwest’s electric utility landscape.