The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has launched a new tool that can help utilities, institutions, state, and local policymakers, and the public get better answers about the changing economics of today’s power sector. The NRDC tool improves upon existing methods to compare, on an apples-to-apples basis, the cost of producing power from different technologies…

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental advocacy group, has released a new resource that outlines how to tap offshore wind power potential in the U.S. while still protecting marine life. Harnessing the Wind: How to Advance Wind Power Offshore was developed in consultation with other environmental organizations. It identifies key challenges for wind…

Editor’s note: This article comes from the NRDC, and is authored by Senior Energy Economist, Ashok Gupta. As the EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) listening tour comes to Kansas City, Missouri, Midwesterners can voice their support for national strategy to fight climate change and a path towards cleaner, cheaper sources of energy. The CPP would boost an already…

NRDC’s fifth annual energy report, America’s Clean Energy Revolution, confirms the massive shifts in the nation’s energy landscape, dominated by clean energy progress.

A new analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) shows how federal tax credit extensions are leading to new wind and solar projects that will create more than 220,000 jobs — and add nearly $23 billion to the U.S. economy in 2017. The report, titled Engine of Growth: The Extension of Renewable Energy Tax Credits…

Each major wind farm in America creates nearly 1,100 jobs and can add tens of millions of dollars in new taxes and other benefits to the communities where they’re located, according to two new reports from the Natural Resources Defense Council. A new 250-MW wind farm will create 1,079 jobs throughout the many steps of…