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While 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, …
View Full ResourceNegative Emissions Technologies and Practices (NETPs) will be essential to remove and store carbon dioxide (CO2) permanently and reach net-zero targets. Some sectors may not be able to completely abate all emissions. NETPs will play a crucial role in counterbalancing these so-called “residual emissions”.
Many NETPs are emerging technologies with a range of technological readiness, potential physical limitations, adverse impacts, and co-benefits. Hence, there is large uncertainty as to how much of the theoretical potential for each NETP to remove carbon permanently can be achieved in the next 30 years, and still respect physical limits in the natural environment, sustainable …
View Full ResourceWhen paired with geological storage, Direct Air Capture (DAC) can permanently remove carbon dioxide (CO2) at a scale that can help achieve global climate goals. There is a substantial body of evidence that allows for an in-depth assessment of the safety and permanence of geological CO2 storage, since the practice has been harnessed at a commercial scale in the United States for decades. When properly sited, constructed, tested and monitored in accordance with frameworks like the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Class VI Underground Injection Control program, geological storage of CO2 is both durable and safe. Safety concerns around geologic …
View Full ResourceThe U.S. energy sector is undergoing a fundamental transition to a cleaner and more distributed future. Increasingly favorable economics, corporate commitments, and state and federal actions, like the enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act, are all spurring the deployment of renewable energy resources.
Included in this trendline:
– Renewable energy M&A is entering a new paradigm, LevelTen Energy says
– Solar PPA prices are creeping up again, but it’s mostly because of conditions in a single state
– Louisiana colleges aim to build state’s offshore economy into a nerve center for wind energy…
Real estate actors across the United States are at the precipice of a major climate opportunity. The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and the increased focus by investors, lenders, regulators, and policymakers on building decarbonization, positions the sector to take meaningful action.
To inform this opportunity, RMI conducted a bottom-up carbon analysis of the US building stock to determine the relative operational emissions for each segment. To the knowledge of RMI, this is the most detailed US buildings emissions model created to date. This report provides a breakdown of US building carbon emissions by segment, subsegment, and building size …
View Full ResourceIncreasing frameworks and guidance on climate action claims have created a confusing range of options which can take time to understand and navigate.
Climate Impact Partners’ expert team has reviewed all the requirements and launched The Climate Action Protocol, enabling companies to make confident climate claims, based on internal reductions and high-quality carbon credits.
The Climate Action Protocol, covering Climate Impact Partners’ CarbonNeutral certification, ISO’s 14068 Carbon Neutral Standard; ISO’s Net Zero Guidance; SBTi’s Net Zero Standard; and VCMI’s Carbon Integrity Claim, provides the tools to compare and contrast requirements in order to make the right choice for your business. …
View Full ResourceFrom 2020 to 2023, The Corps Network participated as a partner in Better Buildings Workforce Accelerator (BBWA). The BBWA is a Department of Energy initiative seeking to raise the level of building science and energy efficiency knowledge in the nation’s building-related workforce. Through the BBWA, DOE engaged industry partners in activities that build interest and awareness, streamline pathways, and improve skills for people pursuing green building careers.…
View Full ResourceIn the ever evolving economic and energy landscape, the outset of 2024 brings with it updated economic forecasts, particularly in the face of broad expectations for a slowdown. Yet, emerging data show resilience and unexpected growth, challenging preconceived notions and setting the stage for a reevaluation of this year’s prospects.
This article delves into the latest insights from TXOGA’s quarterly monitoring and analyses of economic and energy markets, with critical implications for American households and businesses, core to energy security and affordability, and especially important to Texas.…
View Full ResourceThis Technical Opinion Paper (TOP) studies the emerging use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) as an additional tool for the evaluation of safety cases implying thermal hydraulics. CFD allows a finer description of the phenomena compared to the present system-scale tools. This appears promising but also raises new questions in the assessment of safety studies and its use is currently still limited to a relatively small number of applications. The development of CFD is a fast-evolving and relatively recent activity in the context of nuclear safety. The Computational Fluid Dynamics Task Group (CFDTG), which is part of the Nuclear Energy …
View Full ResourceThe imperative to reduce carbon emissions is profoundly transforming the electricity and energy systems of OECD and NEA countries. This sets in motion a number of interrelated developments that challenge traditional understandings of the way energy systems work. These changes also require a reappraisal of established notions of costs at the level of the integrated electricity system. Different technologies with comparable costs at the level of the individual plant can thus have very different effects on the total costs of a system. This impacts the strategic decision-making of energy policymakers with regard to the energy mix. It relates, in particular, …
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