For the nation's frontline neighborhoods, religious institutions often serve as an anchor and oasis, providing critical support and services across communities. Houses of worship have often stepped in to fill the void, offering crucial programming and resources like food assistance, daycare, and medical services.

Con Edison is one of the nation's largest investor-owned energy delivery companies, with approximately USD 12bn in annual revenues and USD 63bn in assets. In January, the utility issued a report detailing how it would incorporate climate change into its planning, design, operations, and emergency response.

Pulaski County, Virginia, wants to become a nationwide leader in renewable energy. The county that, in January, approved a special use permit for a 300 MW solar farm developed by Hecate Energy, is now awaiting a wind farm in development by Apex Energy that could have a capacity of more than 150 MW.

The renewable energy industry is on track to deploy more than USD 1trn in capital investment by 2030. Wind, solar, and energy storage already set annual capacity addition records in 2020, with momentum building to meet the robust targets laid out by the Biden administration as part of the economy-wide Build Back Better plan to hit net-zero emissions by 2050.

Take a drive through Midtown Manhattan and you might cross paths with towering, futuristic structures that look very much like next-century streetlights. But those modernistic, clunky pillars are actually high-speed, on-street charging systems called pantographs that can charge electric buses in just three to six minutes.

Participating CCAs will have the opportunity to opt-in or out of any future bidding processes according to their needs, but Peninsula CEO Jan Pepper said that the overall advantage of this JPA is the ability to solicit for bigger clean energy projects.

Biden's recent climate action blitz also included measures to accelerate domestic production of battery technology, as well as jumpstarting historic investments in clean transmission infrastructure and large-scale renewables like offshore wind.

The decarbonization plan follows additional efforts from SVCE for holistic procurement and electrification efforts. In 2020, SVCE also adopted an Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Joint Action Plan that calls for investing USD 14m in funding for EV charging.

Community choice aggregate East Bay Community Energy (EBCE) plans to reach a 100 percent clean energy goal by 2030, 15 years ahead of the state schedule.

For larger investors like banks and major financial institutions, this year has been relatively business-as-usual with utility-scale solar continuing to thrive. However, for some smaller investors and asset owners, 2020 has been a year of uncertainty and risk.

"Wind development is a capital-intensive industry, and the vast majority of that capital is spent at the beginning of a project’s lifespan," said Nate Blouin, policy manager for Interwest Energy Alliance, during a public comment session.

While the country anxiously awaits the results of the 2020 election, clean energy is a big topic on everyone's mind. But for Andy Klump the big renewable question is not if but how.

Solar developer ReVision Energy, which has offices across New England, joined the coalition to help move the region from a fossil fuel-based economy to one powered by clean and renewable energy.

The Pulehu solar project is a 40 MW, 160 MWh solar-plus-storage project located on the island of Maui and would provide about 9 percent of Maui's electricity. The project was one of two selected on the island in an RFP process from utility Hawaiian Electric subsidiary Maui Electric.

The heart of a fuel cell is a device called a stack, which takes air and hydrogen and converts it to electricity. The stack extends the life cycle for on-road applications and accelerates the adoption of zero emission HFC electric vehicles (HFCVs).

State leaders established SOL-utions New Mexico this week, a coalition featuring groups such as Vote Solar, SEIA, Western Leaders Network, PACE-Fund NM and Solar United Neighbors to continue the push for community solar in the state.

“I think there’s a new sense of urgency to build that just and equitable economy,” said John Podesta, former White House Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton, at this week's Climate Jobs NY (CJNY) Summit.

The USD 1bn, 1,200 MW hydropower New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) project, a joint venture between Avangrid subsidiary CMP and Hydro-Quebec (HQ), will deliver energy from Quebec to Massachusetts.