EFI Foundation
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Delivering evidence-based, pragmatic solutions to the world’s energy challenges.
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✅ EFI Foundation believes climate action should be credible, accountable, and durable.
Since 2019 we’ve worked with Climate Vault to offset operational emissions from commuting, business travel, and both office and work-from-home energy use.
Since 2019 we’ve worked with Climate Vault to offset operational emissions from commuting, business travel, and both office and work-from-home energy use.
January 15, 2026 at 6:32 PM
✅ EFI Foundation believes climate action should be credible, accountable, and durable.
Since 2019 we’ve worked with Climate Vault to offset operational emissions from commuting, business travel, and both office and work-from-home energy use.
Since 2019 we’ve worked with Climate Vault to offset operational emissions from commuting, business travel, and both office and work-from-home energy use.
We are thrilled to announce the launch of EFI Foundation’s new website where you can access our rigorous analysis, policy recommendations, and innovative strategies that shape the future of energy. 🌍
👉Explore for yourself at: www.efifoundation.org
👉Explore for yourself at: www.efifoundation.org
January 14, 2026 at 3:37 PM
We are thrilled to announce the launch of EFI Foundation’s new website where you can access our rigorous analysis, policy recommendations, and innovative strategies that shape the future of energy. 🌍
👉Explore for yourself at: www.efifoundation.org
👉Explore for yourself at: www.efifoundation.org
This year, we welcomed several new additions to our team as we continued to pave the way for cleaner, more resilient, and more affordable energy.🌍
If you want to learn more about our team, visit our site here - efifoundation.org
If you want to learn more about our team, visit our site here - efifoundation.org
January 12, 2026 at 2:07 PM
This year, we welcomed several new additions to our team as we continued to pave the way for cleaner, more resilient, and more affordable energy.🌍
If you want to learn more about our team, visit our site here - efifoundation.org
If you want to learn more about our team, visit our site here - efifoundation.org
💼 We’re Hiring: Executive Assistant, NSI
The EFI Foundation is looking for an Executive Assistant to support EFIF and the Nuclear Scaling Initiative (NSI).
If you thrive in mission-driven environments, we want to hear from you!
Apply here - efifoundation.bamboohr.com/careers/34?s...
The EFI Foundation is looking for an Executive Assistant to support EFIF and the Nuclear Scaling Initiative (NSI).
If you thrive in mission-driven environments, we want to hear from you!
Apply here - efifoundation.bamboohr.com/careers/34?s...
January 7, 2026 at 7:36 PM
💼 We’re Hiring: Executive Assistant, NSI
The EFI Foundation is looking for an Executive Assistant to support EFIF and the Nuclear Scaling Initiative (NSI).
If you thrive in mission-driven environments, we want to hear from you!
Apply here - efifoundation.bamboohr.com/careers/34?s...
The EFI Foundation is looking for an Executive Assistant to support EFIF and the Nuclear Scaling Initiative (NSI).
If you thrive in mission-driven environments, we want to hear from you!
Apply here - efifoundation.bamboohr.com/careers/34?s...
The U.S. DOE cancelled 345 awards in 2025, totaling over $11 billion.
🔀 This figure from EFIF’s recently released report details the possible pathways for these deobligated funds.
Read more here – efifoundation.org/foundation-r...
🔀 This figure from EFIF’s recently released report details the possible pathways for these deobligated funds.
Read more here – efifoundation.org/foundation-r...
January 5, 2026 at 2:16 PM
The U.S. DOE cancelled 345 awards in 2025, totaling over $11 billion.
🔀 This figure from EFIF’s recently released report details the possible pathways for these deobligated funds.
Read more here – efifoundation.org/foundation-r...
🔀 This figure from EFIF’s recently released report details the possible pathways for these deobligated funds.
Read more here – efifoundation.org/foundation-r...
🌍💡In 2025, the EFI Foundation made significant strides across the energy landscape, advancing solutions for a low-carbon future.
A quick look at our year ⬇️
A quick look at our year ⬇️
December 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🌍💡In 2025, the EFI Foundation made significant strides across the energy landscape, advancing solutions for a low-carbon future.
A quick look at our year ⬇️
A quick look at our year ⬇️
This year, DOE canceled more than $11 billion in awards, raising questions about the reliability of federal funding commitments.
🔍 EFIF’s latest report, What’s Next for Canceled DOE Funds?, explains the legal and budgetary rules that determine where these funds end up.
👉 Read the full analysis
🔍 EFIF’s latest report, What’s Next for Canceled DOE Funds?, explains the legal and budgetary rules that determine where these funds end up.
👉 Read the full analysis
What’s Next for Canceled DOE Funds?
This report provides an analysis of the legal and budgetary rules that shape the trajectory of funding from canceled U.S. DOE awards.
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December 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This year, DOE canceled more than $11 billion in awards, raising questions about the reliability of federal funding commitments.
🔍 EFIF’s latest report, What’s Next for Canceled DOE Funds?, explains the legal and budgetary rules that determine where these funds end up.
👉 Read the full analysis
🔍 EFIF’s latest report, What’s Next for Canceled DOE Funds?, explains the legal and budgetary rules that determine where these funds end up.
👉 Read the full analysis
🌱 How can we better fund & grow #CleanEnergy?
EFIF, @acore-org.bsky.social, Nicholas Institute, & @worldresources.bsky.social hosted a roundtable to explore strategies for overcoming policy, financial, & market barriers for clean energy deployment.
nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/publications...
EFIF, @acore-org.bsky.social, Nicholas Institute, & @worldresources.bsky.social hosted a roundtable to explore strategies for overcoming policy, financial, & market barriers for clean energy deployment.
nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/publications...
December 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
🌱 How can we better fund & grow #CleanEnergy?
EFIF, @acore-org.bsky.social, Nicholas Institute, & @worldresources.bsky.social hosted a roundtable to explore strategies for overcoming policy, financial, & market barriers for clean energy deployment.
nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/publications...
EFIF, @acore-org.bsky.social, Nicholas Institute, & @worldresources.bsky.social hosted a roundtable to explore strategies for overcoming policy, financial, & market barriers for clean energy deployment.
nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/publications...
⚡ How can DOE modernize the Office of Energy Dominance Financing (EDF)?
In October 2025, EFIF & @bipartisanpolicy.org convened experts to explore ideas to strengthen DOE loan programs, boost innovation, and enhance U.S. competitiveness.
🔗 Read these strategies -
In October 2025, EFIF & @bipartisanpolicy.org convened experts to explore ideas to strengthen DOE loan programs, boost innovation, and enhance U.S. competitiveness.
🔗 Read these strategies -
Three Big Ideas for Modernizing DOE’s Loan Programs
The Bipartisan Policy Center and the EFI Foundation organized a discussion among experts on ways to cost-effectively leverage DOE’s loan program. From this discussion, three possible strategies for ED...
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December 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
⚡ How can DOE modernize the Office of Energy Dominance Financing (EDF)?
In October 2025, EFIF & @bipartisanpolicy.org convened experts to explore ideas to strengthen DOE loan programs, boost innovation, and enhance U.S. competitiveness.
🔗 Read these strategies -
In October 2025, EFIF & @bipartisanpolicy.org convened experts to explore ideas to strengthen DOE loan programs, boost innovation, and enhance U.S. competitiveness.
🔗 Read these strategies -
EFIF’s Alex Kizer recently joined Sustainable Aviation Futures’ virtual panel, The Year in SAF.
Noting how carbon accounting can support SAF, Kizer said, “We want a common language so we can understand where the emissions are coming from, and then create real investment signals.”
Noting how carbon accounting can support SAF, Kizer said, “We want a common language so we can understand where the emissions are coming from, and then create real investment signals.”
December 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
EFIF’s Alex Kizer recently joined Sustainable Aviation Futures’ virtual panel, The Year in SAF.
Noting how carbon accounting can support SAF, Kizer said, “We want a common language so we can understand where the emissions are coming from, and then create real investment signals.”
Noting how carbon accounting can support SAF, Kizer said, “We want a common language so we can understand where the emissions are coming from, and then create real investment signals.”
📉Carbon capture and storage is critical for cutting both U.S. and global emissions.
EFIF outlines how policy and financial mechanisms can help bring CCS technologies to market faster-
EFIF outlines how policy and financial mechanisms can help bring CCS technologies to market faster-
Unlocking Private Capital for Carbon Capture and Storage in Industry and Power
This EFIF report presents an analysis of the deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology in the power and industrial sectors.
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December 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
📉Carbon capture and storage is critical for cutting both U.S. and global emissions.
EFIF outlines how policy and financial mechanisms can help bring CCS technologies to market faster-
EFIF outlines how policy and financial mechanisms can help bring CCS technologies to market faster-
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This Friday, EESI's final briefing of 2025 will cover the status of 12 key clean energy tax credits!
Panel:
⚡ @sethhanlon.bsky.social, @taxlawcenter.org
⚡ Jillian Blanchard, @lawyers4goodgov.bsky.social
⚡ Katelyn Dean, @efifoundation.org
RSVP: ow.ly/8tee50XGtzS
Panel:
⚡ @sethhanlon.bsky.social, @taxlawcenter.org
⚡ Jillian Blanchard, @lawyers4goodgov.bsky.social
⚡ Katelyn Dean, @efifoundation.org
RSVP: ow.ly/8tee50XGtzS
December 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This Friday, EESI's final briefing of 2025 will cover the status of 12 key clean energy tax credits!
Panel:
⚡ @sethhanlon.bsky.social, @taxlawcenter.org
⚡ Jillian Blanchard, @lawyers4goodgov.bsky.social
⚡ Katelyn Dean, @efifoundation.org
RSVP: ow.ly/8tee50XGtzS
Panel:
⚡ @sethhanlon.bsky.social, @taxlawcenter.org
⚡ Jillian Blanchard, @lawyers4goodgov.bsky.social
⚡ Katelyn Dean, @efifoundation.org
RSVP: ow.ly/8tee50XGtzS
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December 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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🔎This EFIF playbook, Building Buy-In for Clean Energy Projects: The Developer’s Playbook, is a powerful resource for clean energy developers seeking to maximize investments and avoid project delays stemming from lack of community buy-in.
Building Buy-In for Clean Energy Projects: The Developer’s Playbook
This report from EFIF uses surveys and analysis to highlight links between early community engagement and successful clean energy projects.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🔎This EFIF playbook, Building Buy-In for Clean Energy Projects: The Developer’s Playbook, is a powerful resource for clean energy developers seeking to maximize investments and avoid project delays stemming from lack of community buy-in.
On the latest episode of CIBC’s The Energy Shift Podcast, hosts Ines Serrao and James Wright spoke with EFI Foundation’s Stephen Comello about nuclear energy’s key role in America’s clean energy transition.
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Podcast Series: The Energy Shift - CIBC Capital Markets
A podcast series exploring the latest issues at the intersection of the energy transition and the work of finance.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
On the latest episode of CIBC’s The Energy Shift Podcast, hosts Ines Serrao and James Wright spoke with EFI Foundation’s Stephen Comello about nuclear energy’s key role in America’s clean energy transition.
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⚡The U.S. Army's Janus Program is an effort to accelerate deployment of nuclear microreactors for military use.
@efifoundation.org's Stephen Comello spoke with @reuters.com about the potential for increased efficiencies from interagency cooperation.
@efifoundation.org's Stephen Comello spoke with @reuters.com about the potential for increased efficiencies from interagency cooperation.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
⚡The U.S. Army's Janus Program is an effort to accelerate deployment of nuclear microreactors for military use.
@efifoundation.org's Stephen Comello spoke with @reuters.com about the potential for increased efficiencies from interagency cooperation.
@efifoundation.org's Stephen Comello spoke with @reuters.com about the potential for increased efficiencies from interagency cooperation.
EFI Foundation’s Stephen Comello joined energy experts at the United States Association for Energy Economics North American Conference (USAEE) for a panel discussion on nuclear energy’s role in the United States’ evolving energy economy.
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
EFI Foundation’s Stephen Comello joined energy experts at the United States Association for Energy Economics North American Conference (USAEE) for a panel discussion on nuclear energy’s role in the United States’ evolving energy economy.
How can we strengthen the DOE's energy innovation systems?
🔍Through interviews with 20 developers of BIL-funded projects, we found that the DOE’s current frameworks, timelines, and processes left critical funds in limbo.
Read our 5 recommendations:
efifoundation.org/foundation-r...
🔍Through interviews with 20 developers of BIL-funded projects, we found that the DOE’s current frameworks, timelines, and processes left critical funds in limbo.
Read our 5 recommendations:
efifoundation.org/foundation-r...
Modernizing American Energy Innovation
Analyzing challenges and opportunities at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as it increases end-to-end support for energy innovation.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
How can we strengthen the DOE's energy innovation systems?
🔍Through interviews with 20 developers of BIL-funded projects, we found that the DOE’s current frameworks, timelines, and processes left critical funds in limbo.
Read our 5 recommendations:
efifoundation.org/foundation-r...
🔍Through interviews with 20 developers of BIL-funded projects, we found that the DOE’s current frameworks, timelines, and processes left critical funds in limbo.
Read our 5 recommendations:
efifoundation.org/foundation-r...
We are excited to announce that Akhila Mullapudi has joined EFI Foundation as a research analyst!
She brings valuable knowledge of public policy, climate resiliency, national security, and various emerging technologies. Her work will support our efforts to advance American energy innovation.
She brings valuable knowledge of public policy, climate resiliency, national security, and various emerging technologies. Her work will support our efforts to advance American energy innovation.
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We are excited to announce that Akhila Mullapudi has joined EFI Foundation as a research analyst!
She brings valuable knowledge of public policy, climate resiliency, national security, and various emerging technologies. Her work will support our efforts to advance American energy innovation.
She brings valuable knowledge of public policy, climate resiliency, national security, and various emerging technologies. Her work will support our efforts to advance American energy innovation.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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EFIF has introduced a framework that supports the tracking of carbon emissions across products and entities.
Utilizing both financial accounting and engineering fundamentals, the ledger-based system can help measure carbon stocks and flows through the supply chain.
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Utilizing both financial accounting and engineering fundamentals, the ledger-based system can help measure carbon stocks and flows through the supply chain.
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Integrated Product- and Entity-Level Carbon Accounting: Putting Concepts into Practice
Read EFIF's synthesis of a ledger-based accounting framework that integrates product- and entity-level carbon dioxide emissions accounting.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
EFIF has introduced a framework that supports the tracking of carbon emissions across products and entities.
Utilizing both financial accounting and engineering fundamentals, the ledger-based system can help measure carbon stocks and flows through the supply chain.
Read about this system -
Utilizing both financial accounting and engineering fundamentals, the ledger-based system can help measure carbon stocks and flows through the supply chain.
Read about this system -
In collaboration with Pillsbury Law, this EFIF report expands upon our novel Cost Stabilization Facility to manage cost-risk of first-mover nuclear projects to help deliver clean, reliable, and scalable power.
Read the report here - efifoundation.org/foundation-r...
Read the report here - efifoundation.org/foundation-r...
Cost Stabilization Facility for a Portfolio of Nuclear Energy Projects: A Model Term Sheet
This report extends a policy framework to mitigate cost and cost uncertainty risks associated with nuclear energy projects in the U.S.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
In collaboration with Pillsbury Law, this EFIF report expands upon our novel Cost Stabilization Facility to manage cost-risk of first-mover nuclear projects to help deliver clean, reliable, and scalable power.
Read the report here - efifoundation.org/foundation-r...
Read the report here - efifoundation.org/foundation-r...
💡Ethanol is the most commonly produced and used biofuel in the United States.
In this report, A Strategic Roadmap for Decarbonizing the U.S. Ethanol Industry, EFIF outlines a pathway to further reduce the carbon intensity of U.S. ethanol production.
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In this report, A Strategic Roadmap for Decarbonizing the U.S. Ethanol Industry, EFIF outlines a pathway to further reduce the carbon intensity of U.S. ethanol production.
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A Strategic Roadmap for Decarbonizing the U.S. Ethanol Industry
A roadmap to decarbonize the U.S. ethanol industry, including a portfolio of actions that can help the industry reach net-zero emissions and beyond.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
💡Ethanol is the most commonly produced and used biofuel in the United States.
In this report, A Strategic Roadmap for Decarbonizing the U.S. Ethanol Industry, EFIF outlines a pathway to further reduce the carbon intensity of U.S. ethanol production.
Learn more about the roadmap -
In this report, A Strategic Roadmap for Decarbonizing the U.S. Ethanol Industry, EFIF outlines a pathway to further reduce the carbon intensity of U.S. ethanol production.
Learn more about the roadmap -
EFI Foundation’s latest policy brief, Unpacking DOE’s October Award Cancellations, examines DOE’s recent project cuts and what will happen to the affected funds.
The figure below outlines pathways that the deobligated funds might take over the next several years.
The figure below outlines pathways that the deobligated funds might take over the next several years.
November 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
EFI Foundation’s latest policy brief, Unpacking DOE’s October Award Cancellations, examines DOE’s recent project cuts and what will happen to the affected funds.
The figure below outlines pathways that the deobligated funds might take over the next several years.
The figure below outlines pathways that the deobligated funds might take over the next several years.
Last week, EFI Foundation Distinguished Associate Dave Foster joined Daniel Raimi on @rff.org’s Resources Radio to discuss how labor unions and environmental organizations began to work together on shared issues.
Listen to the episode - www.resources.org/resources-ra...
Listen to the episode - www.resources.org/resources-ra...
A History of Alliances Between Workers and Environmentalists, with Dave Foster
Dave Foster discusses the history of labor unions and environmental organizations coming together to work on common goals, with a notable example involving the United Steelworkers and what became an a...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Last week, EFI Foundation Distinguished Associate Dave Foster joined Daniel Raimi on @rff.org’s Resources Radio to discuss how labor unions and environmental organizations began to work together on shared issues.
Listen to the episode - www.resources.org/resources-ra...
Listen to the episode - www.resources.org/resources-ra...