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Key Insights from a Solutions Forum on Innovative Finance and Clean Power

A C2ES Solutions Forum held on June 25, 2015, brought together state and business leaders to discuss how financial tools can spur investment in clean energy and efficiency. These leaders provided key insights into how existing financing mechanisms can be scaled up and what barriers remain.

Options for Mobilizing Clean Energy Finance

Clean energy and energy efficiency technologies are decreasing in cost and demonstrating their reliability as they are deployed around the world. Financial institutions are becoming increasingly willing to offer traditional financial structures and terms for clean energy projects. At the same time, accelerated public and private investment in these technologies is needed to meet national […]

Understanding the National Enhanced Oil Recovery Initiative

This article appears in the Winter 2014 issue of Cornerstone, the official journal of the World Coal Industry   Since 2011, the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) and the Great Plains Institute (GPI) have convened the National Enhanced Oil Recovery Initiative (NEORI). Bringing together leaders from industry, the environmental community, labor, and state […]

State Policy Actions to Overcome Barriers to Carbon Capture and Sequestration and Enhanced Oil Recovery

The development of Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) and Enhanced Oil Recovery with Carbon Dioxide (CO2-EOR) projects faces a wide range of barriers, but state-level policy can help overcome many of these challenges. In addition to establishing a regulatory framework for CCS and CO2-EOR projects, states can provide incentives, financial or nonfinancial, to promote the […]