Governments around the world are committing to a green recovery from the economic challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the fact that global energy demand actually dropped by an estimated 5% in 2020, resulting in a 7% drop in total energy-related CO2 emissions, the global nature of this crisis has brought the world together. Understanding that a unified global response was the only solution to the new problem currently disrupting our society, we seem to have found a new appreciation for the global response required for the other existential crisis facing our planet – climate change. During his first 100 days in office, President Biden made bold actions to re-establish the US as a leader in the fight against climate change. He re-signing the COP21 Paris agreement, issued an executive order to achieve a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035, put the US on an “irreversible path” to a net-zero economy by 2050, and even released a Grid-interactive […]