permitting reform

Echo Vice President Ella Nilsen joined host Jon Powers on CleanCapital’s Experts Only Podcast to talk energy affordability, data center demand, distributed energy and how the industry can sharpen its messaging.

Pushing the Senate’s bipartisan permitting deal to the post-election lame-duck session creates political peril for the package, Chris Moyer, founder of Echo Communications Advisors, pointed out in a newsletter to his clients.

Picked up pieces on permitting reform, the Senate map, Newsom and Pritzker at Climate Week, and Josh Siegel's move to Punchbowl.

Chris Moyer, the president of the clean energy-focused Echo Communications, who is not affiliated with the ITC PAC, said the group is “kind of playing the bad cop to the trade associations’ good cop.”

Ella Nilsen recently left CNN's climate desk to join Echo Communications as a Vice President. She talks with Heatmap about the move from journalism to clean energy PR.

Echo Vice President Ella Nilsen was announced in E&E News.

Echo Communications Advisors welcomes Ella Nilsen, former CNN energy reporter, as Vice President, expanding the firm's clean energy and climate practice.

Geothermal has the technology and the demand. What it's missing is a clear path to financing the early, expensive step of proving a site actually works. Mike O'Connor, director of the newly formed Mountain West Geothermal Consortium, explains why that early testing phase is the industry's biggest hurdle, and what the four-state consortium is doing about it.

CEBA CEO Rich Powell on a new $121.2 billion ratepayer cost study, why permitting reform is the single biggest fix for energy prices, and what's driving a record year for corporate clean energy buying.

Tom Matzzie, CEO of CleanChoice Energy, discusses how the Invest in Tomorrow Coalition PAC spent $1.1 million to defeat Representative Chip Roy in a Texas Republican primary — and why $100 million in political firepower may be what the clean energy industry needs to survive.