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In this final special addendum to Smart Energy Decisions’ State of Decarbonization Report, “A Closer Look at the Commercial Sector” dives deeper into survey results from representatives of these operators.
While this sector faces the same challenges as its peers in the industrial, institutional, and government sectors, commercial organizations are less advanced in setting emissions reduction goals and are also more likely to face outside scrutiny by shareholders in cases where companies are public. When compared to other sectors, commercial organizations could benefit more than the others from support to facilitate decarbonization planning, though overall, challenges and solutions are often …
Carbon border adjustment mechanisms (CBAM) are an emerging set of trade policy tools that aim to prevent carbon-intensive economic activity from moving out of jurisdictions with relatively stringent climate policies and into those with relatively less stringent policies. Border adjustments have the potential to increase the environmental effectiveness of climate policies, by averting shifts in economic activity that could lead to higher total greenhouse emissions—a phenomenon known as “carbon leakage.” They are also seen as a way of protecting industrial competitiveness by reducing the incentive for businesses to move production abroad.
This factsheet compares border adjustment-related proposals introduced in the …
View Full ResourceSEPA’s Utility Transformation Challenge is an initiative to assess and present a holistic view of U.S. electric utilities’ progress in transforming the energy system to a carbon-free system that is safe, affordable, reliable, resilient and equitable. The Utility Transformation Challenge explores the critical role utilities and their stakeholders play in addressing these opportunities and challenges. Over the past year, SEPA collaborated with more than 100 individual utility members, spanning 41 states nationwide, and representing over 50% of U.S. customer accounts.…
View Full ResourceThe report explores modeling approaches, designs, and impacts of computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling exercises carried out for energy subsidy reforms in different country settings. The report reviews approaches used as part of operational and analytical engagements supported by the World Bank, including those funded by ESMAP, as well as activities by other institutions. The review considers four main dimensions: (1) energy subsidy reform context and challenges, (2) transmission channels covered by the model, (3) data collection and consolidation process, and (4) key model parameters, including calibration of shocks, choice of elasticities, and others.
The review explores the ways in …
View Full ResourceIn X-Change: Batteries, RMI highlights the remarkable, exponential growth of battery sales, which is driven by a domino effect of battery technology adoption that cascades from country to country and sector to sector. This battery domino effect is set to enable the phase out of over half of global fossil fuel demand, and be instrumental to abate transport and power emissions, propelling us over 60 percent of the way toward a zero-carbon energy system.
At the core of the success of batteries lies a reinforcing feedback loop between market scale, cost, and quality. As the battery market grows, unit cost …
View Full ResourceA zero-carbon power system will face uncertainties from both the supply and demand sides. This will require more system flexibility resources to meet the power balance and to realize a larger scale of renewable energy integration. This is especially true in China where the compound annual growth rate of electricity consumption between 2015 and 2022 reached 6.1 percent. The growth rate of the peak load was even higher at 7.1 percent, showing greater volatility on the load side.
With economic development and electrification of other sectors, China’s electricity demand will continue to grow, and the value of demand-side flexibility (DSF) …
View Full ResourceThe report describes income, demographic, and other socio-economic trends among U.S. residential rooftop solar adopters. The report is based on address-level data for roughly 3.4 million residential rooftop solar systems installed through 2022, representing 86% of all U.S. systems. With its unique size, geographic scope, and level of detail, this report is intended to serve as a foundational reference document for policy-makers, industry stakeholders, and researchers.…
View Full ResourceTransport must be decarbonized if climate commitments are to be met. Colombia is a leader in the adoption of electric vehicles in Latin America. However, the growth of the EV market can create operational and planning challenges for the power grid. Fortunately, recent analyses show that Colombia’s distribution grids have the capacity to accommodate the increased power demand created by electric vehicles in the short and medium terms, paving the way for achievement of climate targets. The results of simulations suggest that network operators can plan effectively for the future by considering the growing penetration of EVs in the design …
View Full ResourceThere are two broad approaches to problem solving: top down, or from the bottom up. Top-down approaches include presidential edicts, bureaucratic orders and government intervention. Bottom-up solutions include believing in people, individual empowerment and free market approaches.
With that in mind, this report identifies three significant long-term, global challenges facing humankind: energy poverty, lack of reliable, affordable, and clean energy, and climate change.
Our descendants can live in a richer world, a world free of dire human poverty. They can do so if we allow innovators and entrepreneurs to find cost-effective ways to clean up the environment while energizing the …
Published every year, the NEA Annual report includes an overview of NEA’s activities and publications produced during the year, as well as the latest developments in nuclear energy sector around the world. The report covers a wide spectrum of topics that provide governments and other relevant stakeholders with authoritative, reliable information and analyses on current and future nuclear technologies.
The 2022 NEA Annual Report sheds light on the Agency’s activities in the fields of nuclear development, nuclear safety and regulation, human aspects of nuclear safety, radiological protection, radioactive waste management, decommissioning of nuclear installations and legacy management, nuclear science and …
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