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After 100 Days Of Trump, Business Success Makes Clean Energy A Winner

They say “nothing succeeds like success” – and with a new Administration that places a premium on economic accomplishment, this business maxim can be repurposed as a baseline for any industry looking to cement its standing in Washington today. As the election results rolled in last November, many observers to the clean energy industry wondered […]

In the Fortune 500, Clean Energy is Good for Business

Fortune 500 companies are at an all-time high in terms of value – some $17+ trillion dollars as of this time last year. The explosive growth of tech businesses in particular, Google, Amazon, Apple and many more, have set the standard for modern capitalism in terms of profits and advancement up the Fortune list. But […]

Avoiding the Cliff: Put Energy Policy to Work for America

Around the turn of the century in the early 1900s, America was growing fast and energy was in high demand. Recognizing the need for action, Congress implemented policies to support the newly industrialized energy industry – primarily oil, gas and coal-fired technologies at that time. These subsidies performed as intended, boosting the energy industries of […]

The World After Paris: Energizing Economics in a Post-Carbon Era

It’s no accident that history’s greatest inventions have eventually ended up in energy applications, powering everything from the world’s greatest cities to the iPhone in your pocket. Harnessing the power of fire for nearly limitless applications was once the ultimate achievement in human history. And yet even that has now been eclipsed, from the computer […]