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Author(s): Dallas Burtraw, Maya Domeshek, and Derek Wietelman
Publisher: Resources for the Future (RFF)
Publication Date: April 7, 2020
Allowance price and revenue variability could pose a challenge for the investment of auction proceeds to modernize transportation infrastructure in the Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI). A price staircase could stabilize revenues and automatically increase the stringency of the program if costs are lower than expected.…
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Author(s): Jeffrey Rissman, Chris Bataille, Eric Masanet, et al.
Publisher: Applied Energy
Publication Date: April 3, 2020
Fully decarbonizing global industry is essential to achieving climate stabilization, and reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050–2070 is necessary to limit global warming to 2 °C. This paper assembles and evaluates technical and policy interventions, both on the supply side and on the demand side. It identifies measures that, employed together, can achieve net zero industrial emissions in the required timeframe. Key supply-side technologies include energy efficiency (especially at the system level), carbon capture, electrification, and zero-carbon hydrogen as a heat source and chemical feedstock. There are also promising technologies specific to each of the three top-emitting industries: …
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Author(s): Jamil Hijazi
Publisher: The Payne Institute for Public Policy
Publication Date: April 2, 2020
Despite the trade war with China and the outbreak of the Coronavirus, the United States of America (U.S) faces the continuous problem of resource dependence and resource insecurity of its processed Rare Earth mineral supply chain. The latter problem arises for three reasons: First, is the import reliance on Chinese processed Rare Earth supply to the United States. Second, is the negligence of the U.S in developing its own mining sector. Third, is the disconnect between mineral strategy and policy. The aim of this brief to shed an understanding on the current U.S capacity to refine Rare Earths, and to …
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Author(s): Robert Rozansky and Faith Smith
Publisher: ClearPath and Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)
Publication Date: April 2, 2020
Geothermal energy has yet to follow the trajectory of rapidly expanding, cheap renewables like wind and solar. To unlock the enormous potential of this clean, reliable source of energy, the federal government can drive innovation and address barriers to adoption.…
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Author(s): Robert McNally
Publisher: Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy
Publication Date: April 2, 2020
The shock oil markets have suffered from the coronavirus and the ensuing market-share war between Saudi Arabia and Russia has sent prices plummeting to levels not seen since 2002 and altered the outlook for supply and demand for the immediate future. The impact of both events on energy producers and consumers will not fade when the pandemic ends, however. Looking longer term, the world will either have to accept the need for swing producers—those capable of adjusting oil output to attempt to prevent large demand and supply shocks—or brace for perpetual, extreme oil price volatility that will severely destabilize the …
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Author(s): U.S. Energy Information Administration
Publisher: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Department of Energy
Publication Date: April 1, 2020
Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) Forecast Highlights…
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Author(s): The State and Local Energy Efficiency Action Network
Publisher: The State and Local Energy Efficiency Action Network
Publication Date: April 1, 2020
The work described in this study was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Building Technologies Office, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, under Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This study was prepared under DOE’s authority to encourage and facilitate the exchange of information among State and local governments with respect to energy conservation and energy efficiency, and provide technical assistance on such matters. This study was specifically prepared for the use and dissemination of the State and Local Energy Efficiency (SEE) Action Network, a DOE program that DOE and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency facilitate, …
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Author(s): Dennis Wamsted, Seth Feaster, Karl Cates
Publisher: Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis
Publication Date: March 31, 2020
The rapid transition under way in the U.S. electricity generation sector was on blunt display in February when renewable generation (wind, utility-scale solar and hydropower) produced more electricity for the month than coal. This winter-month result was unprecedented but will likely occur with greater frequency in the months ahead.…
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Author(s): Benjamin Leard, Joshua Linn, and Katalin Springel
Publisher: Resources for the Future
Publication Date: March 31, 2020
Fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards cover about half of all vehicles globally. The US regulatory agencies predicted that standards for 2012 through 2016, which improved fuel economy by 13 percent, would substantially increase social welfare, but their analysis was based on fuel price and technology assumptions that appear to have been overly optimistic, and they assumed the standards would not affect vehicle market shares and other vehicle attributes, such as horsepower. This paper provides the first comprehensive social welfare estimates of recent standards. We use a new equilibrium model that includes fixed and variable costs of raising fuel …
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Author(s): Brad Handler
Publisher: The Payne Institute for Public Policy
Publication Date: March 31, 2020
The recent oil price collapse is setting the stage for yet another steep decline in revenue and profit for the U.S. Oilfield Services (OFS) sector. As challenging as it will be for U.S. OFS companies to weather this storm, it represents just another blow to a sector already beleaguered by its and its customers’ inability to deliver adequate financial returns and longer-term demand uncertainty given climate change (decarbonization) concerns. All of these threaten to shrink and transform OFS in the years to come.…
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