Center for Clean Energy Innovation

10/12/2016

For the latest on clean energy innovation from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, visit https://itif.org/issues/energy-climate.

07/27/2015

U.S. public investment in clean energy RD&D lags behind Asian competitors, which are already seeing a payoff in both research output and commercial success.

Read Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant II:http://www2.itif.org/2015-rising-tigers-sleeping-giant.pdf

06/08/2015

The Center for Clean Energy Innovation announces the 100 Billion Campaign

The 100 Billion Campaign advocates that increased public investments in clean energy innovation must be a key pillar of global climate policy.

http://energyinnovation.us/100-billion/

06/01/2015

An Innovation-Based Clean Energy Agenda For America

Carbon prices, subsidies, and mandates will not give us the cost-effective, performance-competitive clean energy we need to address climate change. It will take strategic investment and reforms that spur energy innovation.
http://bit.ly/1SQd8TM

12/11/2014

Watch CCEI's talk the role of tech innovation to combat climate change and energy poverty on : http://ow.ly/FJsaA

Only 24 percent of Sub-Saharan Africa has access to energy. One research group wants to change that by way of innovative clean energy. Subscribe to...

11/14/2014

Tune into twitter Monday 11/17 for an on the grid implications of cheap energy storage: http://ow.ly/EiqOf

Major advances in materials science and improved manufacturing are driving down the cost and improving the performance of energy storage...

11/13/2014

Fair to assume China won't hold up its half of climate deal w US; why underlying innovation collabs more important: http://ow.ly/EdzPz

No one knows for sure, you will find a brief survey of some estimates here. Let’s start with a few simpler points, however. First, China is...

11/13/2014

. take on EU's climate deal: stuck in past, failed paradigm + unimaginative: http://ow.ly/EdarY

By Megan Nicholson, policy analyst with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation’s Center for Clean Energy Innovation (CCEI)*

11/10/2014

My new piece - The modest, voluntary Better Buildings Challenge is pushing deep decarbonization http://ow.ly/E3OIQ

The program is an experiment steeped in past energy efficiency policy successes.

11/06/2014

How to change the UN Sustainable Development Goals to meaningfully impact climate and energy poverty: http://ow.ly/DVBxB

The goal of curbing global greenhouse gas emissions can sometimes appear at odds with efforts to expand electricity access to the 1.3 billion...

10/31/2014

taking on old National Lab model w/ new LabCorp program to turn R&D into market breakthroughs: http://ow.ly/DCwpS

The Department of Energy national laboratories are American science and engineering powerhouses. These national treasures are generating innovative...

10/23/2014

Important: Scaling up EV batteries won't necessarily lead to big cost reductions. Tesla gigafactory model limited? http://ow.ly/DeJrP

By Tara Moore / 412-268-9673 PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University researchers have found that the cost savings associated...