Clean Energy Group

Hydrogen’s Global Warming Impacts

The hype around clean hydrogen as a decarbonization tool overlooks the fact that all hydrogen significantly increases global warming if it leaks into the atmosphere, and its use with natural gas does not substantively reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Resilient Power Funding Programs: Building the Foundation for Energy Resilient Communities – 2022 Annual Impact Report

This report outlines the impacts of CEG’s 2022 grantmaking through the Technical Assistance Fund and the Resilient Power Leadership Initiative. The report covers the programs’ projects, partnerships, and lessons learned.

Clean Energy Group Comments on EPA’s Proposed Rules on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Limits for Power Plants

The EPA is proposing changes to the Clean Air Act related to greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired electric generating units. CEG, along with nine partner organizations, has submitted comments expressing concerns about the potential impact of these proposed changes. 

Electric Vehicles and Equity: How EVs Work, Their Pros and Cons, and the Role They Can Play in Making Our Communities Stronger

Can electric vehicles play a role in advancing equity in underserved and historically marginalized communities? This report explores that question in four parts.

Comments on New Jersey Electric Generating Units

Clean Energy Group and partners submitted comments to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection regarding a proposed rulemaking concept to allow clean energy compliance options for existing Electric Generating Units. These comments raise significant questions about various elements of the proposal and expressed concern that such rules, if developed and approved, would enable fossil assets to remain online unnecessarily.

Supporting Access to Health Care: Resilient Emergency Power for Florida Community Health Centers

This report describes backup power needs and opportunities at Florida’s Community Health Centers. The report includes a technoeconomic analysis for using solar+storage for emergency backup power at health centers, and provides insights and recommendations for resilient power adoption at Health Centers nationwide.

The Interconnection Bottleneck: Why Most Energy Storage Projects Never Get Built

This report investigates the barriers to more effective and efficient interconnection of distributed energy storage resources.

Comments on Proposed Changes to Massachusetts’ ConnectedSolutions Program

CEG submitted comments to the Massachusetts Energy Efficiency Advisory Council to express concern about potentially harmful proposed changes to the Massachusetts ConnectedSolutions program incentive rules.

Assessment of an Alternative Renewable Energy-Based Hybrid Microgrid for NJ TRANSITGRID Project

This analysis determines that the development of a system featuring solar, battery storage, and a backup gas turbine would be a viable and preferred alternative to a new gas-fired CC plant for meeting NJ Transit’s critical loads during severe weather-related outages.

Investment Tax Credit Fact Sheets: Bonus Credit Program

These fact sheets introduce each of the six bonus credits available within the ITC for solar, wind, and storage projects. These fact sheets share who is eligible to apply for each credit and which credits can be paired together.