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This document is intended to be a resource for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Water Power Technologies Office and other interested science and technology offices within DOE seeking to incorporate energy and environmental justice (EEJ) into their programs and portfolios. It provides background information on EEJ principles; how those principles apply to foundational research and technology development through deployment and commercialization; and tangible and immediate steps that can be taken to infuse EEJ into ongoing programmatic efforts.…
View Full ResourceThe release of ChatGPT on Nov. 30, 2022, sparked a global conversation about the future of computing. By January 2023, this large language model had 100 million users—a number that rose to 173 million by April 2023. Created and released by the company OpenAI, ChatGPT gave the broader public its first direct access to the computational power of artificial intelligence (AI) and its ability to provide human-like text generation with highly accurate contextual understanding.
These advances in AI and machine learning from ChatGPT and other AI models like Google’s Bard, Meta’s LLaMA and other open-source models could fundamentally alter the …
View Full ResourceA global survey by ESG found that nearly three-quarters of energy providers plan to implement AI/machine learning solutions to achieve operational efficiency and meet customer demands while combating macro market forces such as rising costs and rigorous regulations. This insight is part of a broader story of the rapidly evolving energy industry, and how energy executives are rising to meet the moment.
This survey report uncovers energy providers’ top challenges and the solutions to address them, including:
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Concerns about regulation, rising costs, and supply chain constraints
Optimism about analytics and forecasting tools to power informed decision-making
How a clear market
This annual report tracks global progress toward Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7: Achieving affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. It serves as a guide for policymakers and the international community in advancing energy access, energy efficiency, renewable energy and international cooperation to achieve SDG 7. IRENA produces the report jointly with the SDG 7 co-custodian agencies: the International Energy Agency (IEA), the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the World Bank, and the World Health Organization (WHO). The preparatory process for the 2023 edition was chaired by the WHO.
In order to realise SDG 7 and related SDGs by …
View Full ResourceThe Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium (FCIC) develops first-principles-based knowledge and tools to understand, quantify, and mitigate the effects of feedstock and process variability across the bioenergy value chain, from the field and forest through downstream conversion. The FCIC is a collaborative and coordinated effort involving researchers in many different disciplines. It is led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and includes researchers from nine national laboratories: Argonne National Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Energy Technology Laboratory, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and …
View Full ResourceIn its latest report Material and Resource Requirements for the Energy Transition the ETC dives into the natural resources and materials needed to meet the needs of the transition. Large investments and strong policy support are needed to ensure that the supply of some key minerals grows quickly and sustainably over the next decade to meet rapidly growing demand.
There is no fundamental shortage of any of the raw materials to support a global transition to a net-zero economy: geological resources exceed the total projected cumulative demand from 2022-50 for all key materials, whether arising from the energy transition or …
View Full ResourceThis report focuses on strategies to reduce building energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, including both energy efficiency and electrification measures. The report also recognizes that investments in home electric vehicle charging will be important due to the state policy requiring that 100% of new vehicle sales are zero emissions by 2035.…
View Full ResourceThe U.S. energy system is rapidly transforming, driven by policies that expand production, foster innovation, support domestic manufacturing,
and create high wage jobs across America, while substantially reducing emissions. Landmark investments from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) provide critical funding to drive more rapid adoption of zero emissions products, incentivize expanded domestic manufacturing capacity, and facilitate the development of next-generation technologies through programs that emphasize equity and a just transition.
The pace of change in the energy sector makes tracking energy employment more important than ever, but it also increases its complexity. The diversity and …
View Full ResourceClean ways to make and use Hydrogen for power generation will be critical to replace conventional methods of power production that use petroleum-based products.
The industry prevailing understanding is that hydrogen is essential to meet global decarbonization goals by 2025 across industries. The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) estimates that by 2050, clean hydrogen could meet 12 percent of energy consumption, and could abate seven gigatons of CO2 emissions annually. If these projections are true, both hydrogen production and hydrogen power plants are necessary to produce green renewable electricity while still maintaining a reliable grid.…
View Full ResourceThis year’s edition of the World Energy Investment provides a full update on the investment picture in 2022 and an initial reading of the emerging picture for 2023.
The report provides a global benchmark for tracking capital flows in the energy sector and examines how investors are assessing risks and opportunities across all areas of fuel and electricity supply, critical minerals, efficiency, research and development and energy finance.
It focuses on some important features of the new investment landscape that are already visible, including the policies now in place that reinforce incentives for clean energy spending, the energy security lens …
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