The Gist

The Ad Hoc Gist: Are We Ready to Electrify Homes? December 2022 Winter is descending. Heating bills are going up. And Americans await the new IRA home electrification tax credits that go live in January. In this month’s Gist, penned by our own Elaine Reddy, we ask if the market is ready for this flood…

A special edition Gist on the midterms. This Gist breakdowns why we think Michigan, Minnesota, Maryland and Massachusetts will go BIG on climate in January.

This month’s Gist covers how the Inflation Reduction Act should accelerate the decarbonization of industrial heat and create new technology winners like hydrogen and thermal storage, but warns that the IRS and wholesale energy markets could trip things up.

This month’s Gist cautions that the new Inflation Reduction Act could accelerate a distributed electric time bomb putting further strain on our fragile grid if regulators don’t reform our antiquated energy markets with more urgency.

The Ad Hoc Gist: Fear of a Chinese Battery Planet May/June 2022 This month’s Gist takes on battery manufacturing, supply chain, and tech. In short, China is kicking our butt and we need to get our act together fast or we’ll concede our battery future. AHG is hiring a Senior Comms Manager. Interested? Apply here. Enjoying…

This month’s Gist is about concrete and its chief component – cement – one of the truly hard matters of decarbonization, and an emerging focus of new tech and policy innovation.

This month’s Gist explains how a war on methane can ensure that we are replacing Russian gas with the cleanest American made alternative to protect both the climate and democracy.

This month’s Gist is about the necessity of carbon removal to achieve our climate goals – and what’s required at the federal, state and market level to accelerate its uptake.

This month we explore the challenge of meeting aggressive fleet electrification goals; hint – it’s not just about charging stations and EVs.

In this quarter’s Gist, we focus on the spike in home heating costs this winter, and how the so-called “Build Back Better” bill moving through Congress could accelerate the electrification of winter.