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Strengthening Oregon’s energy grid: The value of virtual power plants
Oregon can make our energy grid stronger and more affordable by using virtual power plants to coordinate local tools like home batteries and smart appliances. These smart solutions help lower energy costs for everyone while creating good local jobs in our communities.
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Ripples keep spreading from NY climate summit

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Climate Week spurs new pledges from businesses, KLM to power its planes with a biofuel mix, Google and Facebook dump their ties to ALEC, and more news of the week in clean energy solutions.

Getting Smarter

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The Executive Director for Smart Grid Northwest answers a key question: What exactly IS smart grid? And he provides 5 great reasons why it matters to all of us.

A modern energy system for a changing climate

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It's time for Northwest utilities to improve coordination of our region’s flexible generation through an Energy Imbalance Market (EIM).

Power Past Comcast: why climate activists should care about net neutrality

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Threats to an open Internet are threats to climate progress. Take action now to protect net neutrality!

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Climate action wins in court

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Why rooftop solar is only half the price in Germany and Australia as in the U.S., what impacts of climate change make people move away, and other top stories of the week in climate and clean energy.

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Good money after bad

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In this week's ClimateCast: fossil fuels pose new risks for investors, Stanford divests from coal, China in climate talks with the U.S., prices for renewable electricity drop to parity with fossil gas, and much more.  

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Europeans see financial risk in fossil fuels

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In this week’s ClimateCast: Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announces climate plan, New York utilities rethink their business model, pteropods succumbing to sour sea water, and more.

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The Coal to Clean Imperative

Puget Sound Energy is a crucial player on Washington's path toward a clean energy future, but its 20-year resource plan falls significantly short on the urgency and boldness we need to make deep, near-term carbon reduction.

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