State Funding and Financing Strategies for Advancing Energy Projects

Governors can effectively advance their energy policy goals — such as system modernization, reliability, cost reductions or addressing resource adequacy — by leveraging innovative state funding and financing mechanisms alongside federal programs and funding opportunities and private-sector investment. By creating tailored financing mechanisms that reduce barriers for investments, establishing state-level green banks and state energy financing institutions (SEFIs), and incentivizing private-sector investment, Governors can expertly leverage private and household investments to address the energy needs of their states and territories.…

Projected Effects of the Foreign Pollution Fee Act of 2025

This issue brief studies the economic effects of the 2025 Foreign Pollution Fee Act using Resources for the Future’s Global Economic Model.

Carbon–intensity-based border measures, in which a country imposes tariffs on imported goods according to their carbon emissions from each unit of production, have emerged as a key element of the trade and climate policy conversation in the United States and abroad. Proponents of such measures in the US Congress have cited multiple potential benefits, including supporting domestic competitiveness, reducing emissions in US-consumed goods, and reducing the emissions intensity of domestic manufacturing.…

Critical Mineral Recycling & Innovation

“Critical Mineral Recycling & Innovation” is the fourth and final white paper of the Terranaut Minologues, a series by OurEnergyPolicy with generous underwriting from The Earthshot Foundation aimed at addressing opportunities in securing access to critical minerals for the energy transition. This paper addresses the opportunities that can be found in waste reprocessing, critical material recycling, and battery chemistry innovations.…

The Colors of Hydrogen Production: Emissions, Costs, and Concerns

Hydrogen is a colorless gas that can be produced through a wide range of methods using a variety of raw materials or “feedstocks,” such as coal, natural gas, and water. Different production processes for hydrogen gas result in distinct byproducts like carbon dioxide, solid carbon, and oxygen. These differing processes are often assigned a color, which aids in quick identification but can obscure details about the emissions and impacts of each process. Understanding the full environmental, economic, and social implications of each type of hydrogen production is crucial in determining its role in the energy landscape.

This 4-page fact sheet …

Improved Lyrebird Optimization for Multi Microgrid Sectionalizing and Cost Efficient Scheduling of Distributed Generation

The rising energy demand, substantial transmission and distribution losses, and inconsistent power quality in remote regions highlight the urgent need for innovative solutions to ensure a stable electricity supply. Microgrids (MGs), integrated with distributed generation (DG), offer a promising approach to address these challenges by enabling localized power generation, improved grid flexibility, and enhanced reliability. This paper introduces the Improved Lyrebird Optimization Algorithm (ILOA) for optimal sectionalizing and scheduling of multi-microgrid systems, aiming to minimize generation costs and active power losses while ensuring system reliability. To enhance search efficiency, ILOA incorporates the Levy Flight technique for local search, which introduces …

Electrification with Renewables: Enhancing Healthcare Delivery in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s healthcare system faces significant challenges due to unreliable energy access, with 32.5% of its 1 848 healthcare facilities lacking consistent electricity. This report explores the transformative potential of decentralised renewable energy (DRE) systems in addressing these gaps, ensuring uninterrupted health services, particularly in remote and underserved areas. It highlights how frequent power outages and solar system malfunctions disrupt critical services such as emergency care, vaccine storage and maternal health support, emphasising the urgent need for sustainable energy solutions to improve healthcare delivery and population well-being.

The report provides a comprehensive roadmap for powering Zimbabwe’s healthcare facilities with reliable and …

IEF Comparative Analysis of Monthly Oil Market Reports

This resource presents a comparative analysis of oil markets in the month of May 2025.…

Unlocking First-of-a-Kind Projects through Clean Industrial Hubs

From August 2022 to December 2024, Mission Possible Partnership and RMI, with support from the Bezos Earth Fund, accelerated the development of clean industrial hubs in California and Texas, partnering with 18 first-of-a-kind clean industrial projects to grow regional economies, strengthen local workforces, and protect energy security while reducing industry’s environmental impacts.

Participating in a clean industrial hub can significantly improve project success: 50 percent of the 18 projects we supported reached a final investment decision (FID), compared with 20 percent globally. Once built, these projects will mobilize $34 billion of public and private investment and reduce emissions by half …

Quality Infrastructure for Renewables Facing Extreme Weather

While the weather is a primary resource for the production of energy by a wind turbine or a solar panel, it also conceals a capacity for damage and disruption that directly impacts renewable energy infrastructure. The exposure of renewable energy generators to the increasing occurrence of extreme weather events, driven by climate change, highlights the urgent need to ensure power systems are climate resilient.

Resilience begins with robust quality infrastructure: the ecosystem of standards, testing, certification and monitoring that supports the safety and performance of energy technologies. By embedding quality infrastructure across the life cycle of renewable projects, from planning …

Assessing the Policy Ecosystems and Scaling Pathways of Direct Lithium Extraction

Lithium plays a critical role in the global energy transition. It is the core ingredient of lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles (EVs) and are used in stationary energy storage systems. Due to its unique properties, lithium cannot be easily substituted when high performance is required—and that is unlikely to change with technological developments in the foreseeable future. For these reasons, forecasters expect lithium demand to rise precipitously through 2030 and then remain on an upward trajectory.…