HyBuild Los Angeles Phase 2 Report

Green hydrogen (GH₂) is an essential resource to mitigate climate change by decarbonizing hard-to-electrify sectors, such as maritime shipping, aviation, heavy-duty trucking, firm dispatchable power, high-heat industrial processes, and agriculture. In light of the current war in Ukraine and the surging fossil fuel energy prices around the world, GH₂ can also be a resource to support energy cost stability and greater global energy security. Moreover, GH₂ can support a just and equitable clean energy transition by helping to reduce environmental burdens, while creating family-sustaining job opportunities across sectors.

The United States has reached a pivotal moment for the GH₂ market. …

What’s Next for Oil and Gas Methane Regulations

Proposed methane regulations for the oil and gas industry are in the works in the United States and the European Union. These new rules—especially the U.S. regulations—could play a critical role in curbing emissions. This brief summarizes the next steps for methane rules on both sides of the Atlantic, including an overview of the emerging regulations in the United States and a synopsis of the EU methane legislation process. It identifies areas that require more analysis, such as how closely measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV), leak detection and repair (LDAR), and reporting requirements will align. The brief also summarizes the …

Observations and Lessons Learned From Installing Residential Roofing-Integrated Photovoltaics

Building-sited solar photovoltaics (PV) could play a key role in decarbonizing the building sector, either through racked and mounted PV or through building-integrated PV (BIPV). BIPV is installed into the building envelope itself, with solar cells and/or modules forming the outer layer of a building structure, thus transforming a single-purpose structure into one that serves the dual purposes of the building envelope and electricity. BIPV can be applied to building roofs, façades, awnings, pergolas, windows, skylights, balustrades, and other external surfaces. Given that BIPV products vary widely, the focus of this research is residential roofing-integrated PV (RIPV), where solar is …

OurEnergyPolicy Event Summary – Tackling the Problem of Permitting

This event summary highlights key comments made by industry experts at an OEP webinar in March 2023. Featuring panelists from the American Petroleum Institute, The Permitting Institute, and Attentive Energy in a discussion on the permitting process and the hurdles energy projects face at the local, state and federal level.…

Lost in Translation

The Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) unequivocally warns that exceeding 1.5°C warming (overshoot) has dangerous and irreversible consequences, even if temperatures might eventually be brought back below that level. The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report clearly sets out the near-term actions and fossil fuel phaseout required to keep temperature rise below 1.5°C, with minimal to no overshoot.

Most IPCC scenarios rely on large-scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR) to bring temperatures back below a certain threshold in the second half of the century. At the same time, AR6 provides clear warnings about the technological infeasibility, …

Two Paths to US Competitiveness in Clean Technologies

The transition to a clean energy economy is not just critical for addressing climate change, but it is also an opportunity to spur American economic growth, create millions of jobs, and cement America’s position as a global leader in the clean energy marketplace.

In the second installment of a report commissioned by Third Way and Breakthrough Energy, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) examines four additional emerging clean technologies, for a total of ten, that are set to play a major role in the energy transition: geothermal, carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS), offshore wind, and solar. Analysts studied the value chain …

Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Overview of Societal Considerations and Impacts

How first-of-a-kind energy infrastructure projects impact—and are impacted by—society can determine market liftoff. Individual projects introduce far-reaching, multi-generational changes to local communities, while also setting the standard forfollow-on projects unfolding across the country. In this way, social considerations and impacts not only influence the success of each individual project, but ultimately determine social acceptance and adoption. As first movers, early players have an outsized role in shaping whether the clean energy transition is supported by, and supportive of, communities and workers across the country: new technologies can contribute to a more equitable and just future, or follow entrenched patterns of …

Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Long Duration Energy Storage

These Pathways to Commercial Liftoff reports aim to establish a common fact base and ongoing dialogue with the private sector around the path to commercial liftoff for critical clean energy technologies. Their goal is to catalyze more rapid and coordinated action across the full technology value chain.

This report focuses on the application of LDES systems for electricity purposes (e.g., energy is stored and then dispatched in the form of electricity at a later time). To evaluate the commercial feasibility of LDES within the U.S., this effort consulted a wide range of existing research and modeled a U.S.-power-sector decarbonization pathway …

Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Clean Hydrogen

These Pathways to Commercial Liftoff reports aim to establish a common fact base and ongoing dialogue with the private sector around the path to commercial liftoff for critical clean energy technologies. Their goal is to catalyze more rapid and coordinated action across the full technology value chain.

The U.S. clean hydrogen market is poised for rapid growth, accelerated by Hydrogen Hub funding, multiple tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) including the hydrogen production tax credit (PTC), DOE’s Hydrogen Shot, and decarbonization goals across the public and private sectors. Hydrogen can play a role in decarbonizing up to 25% …

Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Advanced Nuclear

These Pathways to Commercial Liftoff reports aim to establish a common fact base and ongoing dialogue with the private sector around the path to commercial liftoff for critical clean energy technologies. Their goal is to catalyze more rapid and coordinated action across the full technology value chain.

U.S. domestic nuclear capacity has the potential to scale from ~100 GW in 2023 to ~300 GW by 2050—driven by deployment of advanced nuclear technologies. Advanced nuclear includes a range of proven and innovative technologies and provides a differentiated value proposition for a decarbonized grid. To unlock deployment at scale, Nth-of-a-kind (NOAK) advanced …