Full Title: 2022 Standard Scenarios Report: A U.S. Electricity Sector Outlook
Author(s): Pieter Gagnon, Maxwell Brown, Dan Steinberg, and Patrick Brown
Publisher(s): National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Publication Date: December 15, 2022
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Description (excerpt):
This report documents the eighth edition of the annual Standard Scenarios. It summarizes 70 forward-looking scenarios of the U.S. electricity sector that have been designed to capture a wide range of possible futures.
In August 2022, the United States Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a law aimed at accelerating U.S. decarbonization, clean energy manufacturing, and deployment of new power and end-use technologies. This year’s scenarios include representations of the main electricity-sector provisions from IRA and the potential impact on electricity demand.