It’s Time for Cascadia to Start Pruning the Gas System and Electrifying Whole Neighborhoods
Early efforts in California, Colorado, and New York offer lessons to get started.
https://www.sightline.org/transitioning-off-gas/
Early efforts in California, Colorado, and New York offer lessons to get started.
Regulators across Cascadia should end line extension allowances, the subsidies ratepayers finance that expand utilities’ pipeline infrastructure.
“GeoNetworks” are being piloted in New York and Massachusetts. Cascadia should be next.
Renewable electricity coupled with energy efficiency will be the powerhouses lowering carbon emissions over the next decade and beyond as Cascadia achieves a net-zero economy. For hard-to-electrify sectors of the economy, however, clean fuels are needed. Hydrogen could be a vital clean alternative to fossil fuels to meet 2050 greenhouse gas emissions targets, but only if it … Read more
Renewable electricity coupled with energy efficiency will be the powerhouses lowering carbon emissions over the next decade and beyond as Cascadia achieves a net-zero economy. For hard-to-electrify sectors of the economy, however, clean fuels are needed. Hydrogen could be a vital clean alternative to fossil fuels to meet 2050 greenhouse gas emissions targets, but only … Read more
A new certification measures the industry’s marginal progress, while buyers should keep their eyes on the true clean energy prize.
Gas utilities are facing an existential crisis: fossil fuels have no future in a decarbonized economy. Yet that bit of reality hasn’t shocked utilities into changing course, not even in the Northwest, where state climate targets are flatly incompatible with continued gas usage. Rather than adapt, these utilities are doubling down on gas with a … Read more