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The ways that Americans produce, distribute, use, and think about energy are more important to our nation’s future than ever before. But despite rapidly evolving financial, national security, and environmental realities – and significant advances in science and technology – our nation’s energy policies are not evolving adequately to meet the challenges of our changing world. The mission of OurEner
05/07/2026
This report from Clean Energy States Alliance provides information about plug-in solar for state energy agencies, their legislative counterparts, and other stakeholders.
Read: https://www.ourenergypolicy.org/resources/what-states-need-to-know-about-plug-in-solar/
05/07/2026
This Clean Energy States Alliance case study profiles Puerto Rico’s first VPP program, and explores how customer-centered program design and collaboration between the utility, program aggregators, and end users helped bring LUMA Energy’s Customer Battery Energy Sharing program to life and scale it into a model for clean, resilient power.
Read: https://www.ourenergypolicy.org/resources/lessons-learned-from-puerto-ricos-first-virtual-power-plant-2/
05/06/2026
This report from DNV explores the confidence, sentiment, and priorities for the energy industry in the year ahead.
Read: https://www.ourenergypolicy.org/resources/demand-and-disruption-energy-industry-insights-2026-main-report/
05/06/2026
This Berkeley Lab report provides a strategic analysis of existing regulatory and legal factors affecting microgrid deployments to help non-technical community leaders and decision-makers better understand the feasibility of a microgrid in their community.
Read: https://www.ourenergypolicy.org/resources/a-community-guide-to-regulatory-barriers-affecting-microgrids-reports-1-3/
05/05/2026
This report from Nature serves as a comprehensive and adaptable decision-support tool for energy planners, engineers, and policymakers engaged in the design and deployment of next-generation sustainable microgrid solutions.
Read: https://www.ourenergypolicy.org/resources/sustainable-assessment-of-renewable-energy-microgrid-architectures-using-a-probabilistic-hesitant-fuzzy-mcdm-approach/
05/05/2026
This Nature report introduces a stakeholder-oriented architecture of a blockchain-based carbon registry platform for Climate Action in Transportation (CATchain-R).
Read: https://www.ourenergypolicy.org/resources/a-blockchain-based-carbon-registry-platform-for-credible-climate-action-in-transportation/
05/04/2026
This report from Nature advances the mechanistic understanding of non-thermal plasma-assisted catalysis.
Read: https://www.ourenergypolicy.org/resources/unveiling-active-sites-and-the-cooperative-role-of-non-thermal-plasma-and-copper-zinc-catalysts-in-the-hydrogenation-of-co2-to-methanol/
05/04/2026
This Nature report focuses on charging allocation in a vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications-enabled EV network with heterogeneous traffic flows, where manned EVs and EV platoons coexist, and each EV platoon may have a different size and travel speed.
Read: https://www.ourenergypolicy.org/resources/efficient-charging-scheduling-through-coordination-of-electric-vehicle-platoons-and-charging-stations/
05/01/2026
This report from Nature develops a decentralized optimization approach utilizing reduced DN models, wherein DER market offers are aggregated based on their locations along the primary feeder of the distribution system into networks of virtual power plants (VPPs).
Read: https://www.ourenergypolicy.org/resources/decentralized-optimization-for-effective-coordination-of-transmission-and-distribution-systems-with-dynamic-der-aggregation/
05/01/2026
This report from Nature summarizes the results from a spatial-temporal prospective life cycle assessment of twenty international supply chain scenarios in 2023, 2030, 2040, and 2050 across five hydrogen production technologies in fourteen countries.
Read: https://www.ourenergypolicy.org/resources/sustainability-of-green-hydrogen-technologies-depends-on-energy-mix-and-supply-chain/