Topic: renewable energy

WRI works with businesses, governments, and researchers of all kinds to ensure that technologies to provide low-carbon energy effectively, efficiently, and inexpensively are available and deployed around the world.

WRI works with business, policymakers, and researchers to move the world toward cleaner, less expensive forms of power to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make low-carbon energy available everywhere.

Working with nations to achieve the twin goals of robust economic growth and a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

Offers six principles of smart energy policy for developing countries

This working paper identifies key components of smart renewable energy policy in developing countries, focusing on the power sector. It also provides recommendations for maximizing the effectiveness of international support for deployment of renewable energies, drawn from these on-the-ground experiences in developing countries.

Recently, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a comprehensive study on renewable energy, entitled Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation. The report finds that by 2050, nearly 80 percent of the world’s energy supply could be provided by renewable energy sources. WRI Analyst Lutz Weischer, who works on renewable energy policies, sat down to talk about the report’s implications.

The following statement was released today by the World Resources Institute (WRI) in response to a press statement by Peabody Energy:

WRI is pleased to have been an NGO co-sponsor of the 6th Annual Asia Clean Energy Forum from June 20-24, focusing on new business models and policy drivers to build a low-carbon future.

12-step guide makes solar power accessible to small businesses and local governments

*Editor’s note: Experts will be attending DOE’s Solar America Cities Annual Meeting, April 26-28, and ar

This Best Practices Guide is intended to assist commercial and government entities in the process of organizing and executing a collaborative solar purchase.

WRI’s response to the Bingaman-Murkowski White Paper on the design of a clean energy standard in the United States.

China, the United States, and the European Union take on transmission upgrades

This report examines electricity transmission developments and challenges for renewable energy in the European Union (EU), China, and the United States.

The Two Degrees of Innovation project works with researchers, engineers, policymakers and other practitioners to create the conditions for global innovation in clean energy, from research to deployment.

In this testimony, Senior Advisor Deborah Seligsohn discusses China’s energy systems, future energy plans, and the business opportunities these create for other countries.

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Low-Carbon Development in Emerging Economies

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IPCC Study: Renewable Energy Could Provide Majority of World’s Energy by 2050

WRI Statement on Energy Production and Human Health

2011 Asia Clean Energy Forum

PRESS RELEASE: New Group Purchasing Model Slashes Cost of Solar Power

Purchasing Power: Best Practices Guide to Collaborative Solar Procurement

How to Design a Clean Energy Standard

High Wire Act: Improving the Grid for Renewable Energy

High Wire Act: Electricity Transmission Infrastructure and its Impact on the Renewable Energy Market

Two Degrees of Innovation

Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power: The Transformation of China's Energy System

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