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DNV’s Energy Industry Insights research – now in its 14th year – explores the confidence, sentiment, and priorities for the energy industry in the year ahead.
The research draws on our annual survey of more than 1,000 senior professionals and a programme of in-depth interviews with leaders and experts. It is developed and created by teams from DNV and FT Longitude (a Financial Times company).
The research was conducted during February and March 2024. Survey respondents were drawn from across the energy industry, including publicly listed companies and privately held firms, and spanning electrical power, renewables, oil and gas, industry …
Between 2020 and 2024, PSE Healthy Energy partnered with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) and Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) to identify opportunities to build solar+energy storage resilience hubs at schools, community centers, and places of worship across California. APEN defines resilience hubs as “physical institutions that offer space for community members to gather, organize, and access resilience-building social services on a daily basis, and provide response and recovery services in disaster situations.” Our analysis focuses on solar+storage resilience hubs, which can deliver distinct advantages for community resilience by keeping essential services online during power outages and providing …
View Full ResourceThe U.S. Department of Energy led the development of a Blueprint for decarbonizing U.S. buildings by 2050 to lay out a national strategy for aggressively reducing building greenhouse gas emissions while delivering equity, affordability, and resilience benefits to communities. The vision includes action the federal government can take to meet specific targets for increasing building energy efficiency, accelerating onsite emissions reductions, transforming the grid edge, and minimizing embodied life cycle emissions.
The national strategy reflects the central role that buildings play in achieving economy-wide climate goals while delivering cost savings, healthier environments, and high-quality jobs for the American people. Federal …
View Full ResourceUtility executives oversee a vast network of assets that includes transmission lines, power plants, substations and transformers. But all these assets are geographically dispersed and disconnected from each other. Without clear insights into the performance of these assets, how are utilities supposed to make data-informed decisions and improve productivity, resiliency and energy efficiency?
This latest playbook looks at how utilities can use the cloud, AI and other state-of-the-art technologies to modernize their asset management systems and increase the reliability and productivity of their systems. The report includes:
– Why it’s critical for utilities to modernize their asset management systems
– …
Today’s international environment is profoundly different from that of the Cold War era—a period of intense U.S.–Soviet competition, but also a time when the United States and its allies led in many technological fields and dominated the global economy—and its aftermath, when geopolitical rivalries eased. Yet many institutions and policies, domestic as well as international, originated in these periods, when circumstances, priorities, threats, and opportunities were different from those of today. As a result, many U.S. approaches are no longer suit America’s needs.
The gap between institutions and policies, on one hand, and international realities, on the other, is especially …
Climate change poses an unprecedented threat to companies’ operations, value chains, employees and communities. The economic costs of climate change – from damage to facilities, disrupted operations and supply chains and lost productivity – are already in the hundreds of millions of dollars and expected to reach trillions. While voluntary actions to reduce emissions are important, only public policy can deliver reductions at the speed and scale needed to limit the worst impacts of climate change. That’s why climate policy advocacy is an essential element of corporate sustainability leadership.…
View Full ResourceUpgrading the US electric grid is vital to a successful energy transition. Transmission expansion lowers electricity costs for consumers; speeds deployment of new generation resources; provides economic opportunities for communities; increases system reliability, particularly in the face of extreme weather events; and enables large-scale transfers of power from areas of the country with high renewable energy potential to customers. But experience over the past twenty years has shown that new transmission projects often face extensive delays, impeding or even denying these potential benefits to consumers and communities. In response, policymakers at the state and federal level are considering reforms to …
View Full ResourceElectricity demand is spiking due to data centers, a manufacturing boom, and electrification. This is good news – federal policies like the Inflation Reduction Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and CHIPS Act are working as intended to drive sustained economic growth through a clean energy economy. New Energy Innovation research finds we don’t need to fill the gap with more natural gas. Regulators and utilities can meet the need for more electricity, continue cleaning the grid, and maintain reliability by taking a holistic approach instead of just building more fossil generation or extending the life of fossil plants slated for retirement.…
View Full ResourceAs the speed, scale, and complexity of achieving US economy-wide decarbonization are better understood, carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is gaining more attention as an important piece of the puzzle. CDR is a broad set of processes and technologies that result in the net removal of CO₂ from the atmosphere. Because of policies implemented over the past few years, the US is now a global leader in policy support for CDR. However, more federal policy support is needed to expand the portfolio of CDR options and ensure a robust CDR market exists to support the goal of mid-century decarbonization. In this …
View Full ResourceWhile coal’s contribution to Russia’s energy system, economy, exports, and tax revenue is much smaller than that of oil and natural gas, coal mining sustains other key industries and coal transportation is the backbone of Russia’s rail system.
Looking ahead, Russia’s coal industry faces significant macro-level challenges, including Western sanctions and global efforts to reduce coal consumption. It also faces operational challenges due to rail capacity constraints, competition for rail access from more profitable goods, a large domestic surplus of natural gas following the collapse of Russia’s gas exports to Europe, and competition for Asian markets from other regional suppliers, …
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