Clean Energy

In the News

There is a lot of logic to [Obama's oil-funded clean-energy research proposal]. It resonates to a broad segment of the population that we should make the best of fossil fuels while accelerating the effort to transform our energy system.

February 14, 2013, Mark Muro, Bloomberg Businessweek

Expert Q & A | Elizabeth Ferris

The Black Swan: The Big Thaw

February 6, 2013, Elizabeth Ferris

In the News

In today’s world we have many more development stakeholders, so there’s no need for a single agency to try to do everything. It’s far better to try to do some things and to try to do them really well.

January 10, 2013, Homi Kharas, Bloomberg Businessweek

In the News

The outcome of the election will have an influence on the pace of growth in [clean energy] industries. If the nation and states weaken the policy framework, the industry uptick and need for workers will stagnate.

November 6, 2012, Mark Muro, San Antonio Business Journal

In the News

Supported by subsidies but also by rapid technical advances, onshore wind and solar photovoltaic installations are way up, and the price of delivered renewable energy is way down ... Wind and solar need the help because the barriers for new technologies in the energy industry are tougher than those in any other industry in this country.

October 8, 2012, Mark Muro, Wall Street Journal

In the News

States really are more or less on their own if they want to pursue a large scale-up of low-carbon energy solutions. [Green banks are] a worthy experiment in trying to make limited state revenues go farther.

September 24, 2012, Mark Muro, Inside Climate News

In the News

With Washington gridlocked and retrenching, the new state banking models offer a hopeful counterpoint to national dysfunction.

September 14, 2012, Mark Muro, DC Streets Blog

In the News

Judged by the standards of short-term job creation, the [federal government’s] energy investments may not have performed brilliantly. However, over the medium and longer term, these programs will in time be viewed as critical investments in research and development, early-stage deployment and broader scale-up of important new technologies.

August 13, 2012, Mark Muro, McClatchy

In the News

What’s unfortunate is that this federal [subsidy] drawdown comes just as some of these [clean tech] industries are beginning to approach competitiveness  and are likely to approach a degree of price parity [with fossil fuels] in the next five years or so.

June 22, 2012, Mark Muro, National Geographic News Watch