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Water electrolysis and fuel cells are a nascent industry with little prior information related to supply chain needs and constraints. This report provides a preliminary assessment; further industry peer review and revisions are expected. Currently, the United States has sufficient domestic resources and imports to meet the materials demand. The United States also currently has manufacturing capabilities in most of the necessary key processed materials and subcomponent manufacturing for both polymer electrolyte and solid oxide technologies. Likewise, the United States has relatively well-positioned end product manufacturing capabilities for both technologies.
To meet the needs of a 100 MMT/yr hydrogen market, …
View Full ResourceHeavy-duty vehicle electrification is accelerating globally as manufacturers bring an increasing diversity of zero-emission bus and truck models to market. Incentive programs, regulatory measures, and growing demand has resulted in the global sales of electric commercial vehicles increasing from roughly 5,000 to 62,000 units between 2010 and 2020 (Buysse & Sharpe, 2021).
Due to the nascent nature of the market, there is a lack of publicly available data on the costs of heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles and powertrains, especially for freight trucks. This study reviews available literature on the costs of battery-electric and hydrogen fuel cell trucks in North America and …
View Full ResourceThe Alliance for Transportation Electrification (“ATE” or the “Alliance”) is pleased to offer these comments in response to the Request for Information posted by the Federal Highway Administration on November 29, 2021 (Federal Register, Vol. 86, No. 226, Page 67783) opening Docket No. FHWA-2021-0022. This proceeding results from passage by Congress of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), or Public Law 117-58 on November 15, 2021, and in particular, the National Electric Vehicle Formula Program (EV Charging Program), providing funding to States to strategically deploy EV charging infrastructure and to establish an interconnected network to facilitate data collection, access, …
View Full ResourceThe U.S. Department of Energy’s Alternative Fueling Station Locator contains information on public and private nonresidential alternative fueling stations in the United States and Canada and currently tracks ethanol (E85), biodiesel, compressed natural gas, electric vehicle (EV) charging, hydrogen, liquefied natural gas, and propane stations. Of these fuels, EV charging continues to experience rapidly changing technology and growing infrastructure. This report provides a snapshot of the state of EV charging infrastructure in the United States in the second calendar quarter of 2021 (Q2). Using data from the Station Locator, this report breaks down the growth of public and private charging …
View Full ResourceGlobal efforts to address climate change offer difficult choices for the oil- and natural gas-reliant economies of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). While swings in commodity prices over the decades have led to calls for economic diversification, some countries are now planning in earnest how best to adjust to the prospects of peak oil demand as the world strives to meet Paris Agreement and Glasgow Pact goals and an increasing number of nations commit to net-zero carbon emissions by midcentury. The issue is no longer simply about volatility and cyclicality of the oil market but rather a secular, structural, irreversible… View Full Resource
Early on December 11, 2021, the Senate Finance Committee released its version of the Build Back Better Act (the “Act”). While the Senate Finance Committee version of the Act largely replicates the clean energy proposals included in the version of the Act the House passed on November 19, 2021, it does include a few substantive revisions along with clean-up changes to the legislative text. If the Senate passes the Act, as revised by the Senate Finance Committee, the revised legislation will need to be approved by the House.
The Act would also extend and enhance the carbon sequestration tax credit, …
View Full ResourceRenewables 2021 is the IEA’s primary analysis on the sector, based on current policies and market developments. It forecasts the deployment of renewable energy technologies in electricity, transport and heat to 2026 while also exploring key challenges to the industry and identifying barriers to faster growth.
Renewables are the backbone of any energy transition to achieve net zero. As the world increasingly shifts away from carbon emitting fossil fuels, understanding the current role renewables play in the decarbonization of multiple sectors is key to ensuring a smooth pathway to net zero.
While renewables continued to be deployed at a strong …
View Full ResourceFuture electricity systems with constraints on carbon emissions will rely more on wind and solar generation, with zero marginal cost, than today. We use capacity expansion modelling of Texas in 2050 to illustrate wholesale price distributions in future energy-only, carbon-constrained grids without price caps under a range of technology/system assumptions. Tightening carbon emissions constraints dramatically increases the frequency of very low prices. The frequency of high prices also increases, and all resources earn the bulk of their energy market revenues in relatively few hours. The presence of demand response, long-duration energy storage, dispatchable low-carbon generation, or a robust market for …
View Full ResourceThis report presents the latest update to the Global Fuel Economy Initiative’s biannual benchmarking report on light-duty vehicle sales. The report tracks the progress of fuel economy of new light-duty vehicles, providing the latest insights based on a rich dataset covering about 85-90% of global light-duty vehicle sales and extending from 2005 to 2019. It leverages these data and IEA modelling to inform policy makers on the policies that would be needed to align the pace of light-duty vehicle efficiency improvements with climate ambitions.
To inform the GFEI targets, which go beyond tailpipe emissions, this report extends the scope of …
View Full ResourceFrom the mid-1980s through 2010, coal was a leading source of U.S. energy, providing up to half of the country’s annual electricity. Coal-fired electric power production peaked around 2007, when coal-fired electricity generating capacity in the U.S. totaled 313 gigawatts (GW) across 1,470 generators. A decade later, about 70 GW of this capacity was retired. Many of these retirements were concentrated in Appalachia, the Southeast, the Illinois Basin, and a few in the Midwest and the Four Corners region (northeast Arizona, northwest New Mexico, eastern Utah, and western Colorado). Of the 237 U.S. coal-fired power plants that are still operational, …
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