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The mood at Oceantic Network’s 2026 International Partnering Forum (IPF) was not what you might expect from an industry under siege. The past year has seen the pipeline of offshore wind projects virtually disappear as the Trump Administration has attempted to revoke project permits, stop project construction, and end offshore wind energy lease sales. And yet the tone at IPF was strikingly hopeful. States and offshore wind developers have…
The Growing Pains of Distributed Wind
The small and mid-scale wind industry is in a unique place in its development: it’s past the stage of an emerging market, but not-yet-fully fledged. And as many states have been discovering, this phase of the industry is full of growing pains.
States Take the Lead in Supporting Marine Energy Technology
On Monday, August 15th, representatives from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, UMass Dartmouth, Massachusetts senate and the New England Marine Renewable Energy Center, marked the completion of the state’s first in-ocean tidal turbine test.
Group Buying the New Thing in Residential Solar – and Beyond?
Last year, CESA gave Energy Trust of Oregon a 2010 State Leadership in Clean Energy (or SLICE) Award for its Solarize Portland program.
Fuel Cells for Supermarkets
Supermarkets are turning out to be an important early market for stationary fuel cells.
Clean energy jobs are growing much faster than the rest of the economy; state policies are at the center of that growth
Last week, our friends at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program released an important report assessing the size and growth of the clean economy, “Sizing the Clean Economy: A National and Regional Green Jobs Assessment.”
States and Clean Energy Economic Development
For the last decade, clean energy projects like wind, solar, and biomass have proliferated across the United States.
Creating Demand: How to Market Solar
Can ‘solar’ become as familiar to us consumers as Coca-Cola or McDonald’s? Clean Energy Group’s Mark Sinclair explores how to market the solar concept.