Duke Energy 2018 Sustainability Report

Duke Energy’s annual sustainability report highlights our past progress, presents the challenges and opportunities we face and offers our view of the future.…

A Complete Guide to Driving ELECTRIC & HYBRID CARS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

We’ve been hearing how electric and hybrid technology will transform the car industry for some time. Not so long ago, you had a limited choice of cars if you wanted to buy one. Now the choice has increased with the improvement of modern technology, will car buyers take note?…

Stand-off nuclear reactor monitoring with neutron detectors for safeguards and non-proliferation applications

Safeguards measures are employed at nuclear reactor facilities worldwide, to ensure that nuclear material is not diverted from peaceful uses. Typical safeguards measures involve periodic inspections, off-line verification and video surveillance of fuel cycle activities. Real-time verification of the fissile contents via stand-off monitoring can enhance continuity of knowledge for non-traditional reactor types, including research reactors and small modular reactors. Here we demonstrate the feasibility of using large-area neutron detectors for monitoring nuclear reactors at stand-off distances up to 100 m outside reactor shielding, as a potential reactor safeguards tool. Since the neutron yield per unit reactor power depends upon …

Federal Support for Electricity Grid Restoration in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico

Federal agencies supported efforts to restore electricity in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) and Puerto Rico through the types of support they traditionally provide following disasters and, in Puerto Rico, in some unprecedented ways.…

In a Warming World, How Should Big Oil Navigate the Future?

It has been three years since the signing of the Paris Agreement, which committed nearly 200 countries to the goal of limiting global warming to “well below 2 degrees Celsius.” Since then, concerns about climate change have grown in both intensity and scope, expanding beyond the ways in which government policies can minimize warming to the role of companies in generating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. With the production and consumption of oil and natural gas products accounting for more than 40% of global GHG emissions, oil and gas companies are confronted with mounting pressure for change.…

2019 New York Getting to Zero Status Report

The 2019 New York Getting to Zero Status Report is a ground breaking review of the state of the net zero energy buildings market in New York State and provides detailed policy and market context about New York’s leading role in advancing deeply energy efficient and low-carbon projects. Against the backdrop of the State’s energy efficiency commitment and recognizing the prominence of Net Zero Energy (NZE) and Net Zero Carbon (NZC) buildings to New York’s climate goals, NYSERDA commissioned this summary. NZE buildings are highly efficient buildings in which energy use is equal to or less than the energy supplied …

2019 Grid Integration Insights

In this report you’ll find:

– The largest pain points with utility grid integration processes
– Market intelligence that pinpoints specific technology gaps
– Utility breakouts by U.S. region
– Covers IOU, public power, and cooperative utilities…

INTERACTIONS BETWEEN A FEDERAL CARBON TAX AND OTHER CLIMATE POLICIES

Putting a price on carbon is a critical part of a low-cost strategy for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and a national carbon tax is a rare example of a climate change policy that has found bipartisan support in the United States. In 2018, legislation establishing a carbon tax was proposed by Democrats, Republicans, and bipartisan groups of US congressmen. However, while passing a carbon tax would certainly prove a significant step toward slashing emissions, simply adding a carbon tax to current policies is unlikely to achieve an emissions target at the lowest cost.

Designing a carbon tax that contributes …

The 2019 U.S. Energy and Employment Report

Based on a comprehensive analysis of employer data collected in the fourth quarter of 2018, the 2019 USEER finds that the Traditional Energy and Energy Efficiency sectors in 2018 employed approximately 6.7 million Americans out of a workforce of approximately 147 million. Employment in these sectors increased in 2018 by 2.3% from the previous year, adding 151,700 net new jobs, nearly 7% of all new jobs nationwide.

The 2019 USEER analyzes the following five sectors of the U.S. economy:

• Fuels
• Electric Power Generation
• Transmission, Distribution and Storage
• Energy Efficiency
• Motor Vehicles and Component Parts

The …

OPEC Policy in the Age of Trump

President Trump’s tweet on February 25 urging OPEC to ‘relax’ and to take it ‘easy’ with their cuts,
and that a ‘fragile’ global economy can’t tolerate a higher oil price, did have an immediate price
impact, with the Brent price declining by 4 per cent on the day, from nearly $67/b down to $64/b (see
Figure 1). But the ‘Trump tweet’ impact faded fairly quickly with oil prices gaining again towards the
end of the same week. A clear signal from the Saudi energy minister Mr. Khalid Al-Falih in which he
confirmed that OPEC and its partners would continue with …