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This annual Energy Transition Outlook (ETO), now in its 6th edition, presents the results from our independent model of the world’s energy system. It covers the period through to 2050 and forecasts the energy transition globally and in 10 world regions.
In the next 30 years, global energy demand will level off even as the global economy grows. This historic decoupling is due to the dramatic effect of efficiency gains, largely enabled by accelerated electrification, that will outpace economic growth in the coming years.…
View Full ResourceAs energy demands increase due to Georgia’s growing population and economy, energy efficiency and a diversified energy portfolio are more significant than ever. The 2022 Georgia Energy Report highlights the growth of energy efficiency and renewable energy, the future of energy, and changes in American energy policy and production. The report also summarizes GEFA programs that support Georgia’s energy goals to conserve and improve energy resources. The report contains an overview of Georgia’s energy data, including production and consumption statistics.
GEFA is responsible for funding more than 600 kilowatts (kW) of solar energy installations, providing scholarships for energy education and …
View Full ResourceThis report describes the development and analysis of a clean energy pathway for a 10-county region in southwestern Pennsylvania. Due to its abundance of fossil fuel resources, the region has a long history of substantial energy production, often at the expense of local environmental quality and economic diversity. A transition to clean energy provides a compelling opportunity to transform the local energy profile, while ending the region’s over-reliance on fossil fuels, to reduce emissions and pursue a path of sustainable growth.
To date, the prevailing narrative for decarbonizing this region has centered around the perpetuation of the natural gas industry …
View Full ResourceRISE—Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy—is a set of indicators intended for use in comparing the policy and regulatory frameworks that countries have put in place to support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) on universal access to clean and modern energy. This fourth edition of the index captures policy and regulatory support that enhances sustainable energy in the form of 30 indicators and 85 subindicators distributed among four pillars: electricity access, clean cooking, renewable energy, and energy efficiency. The RISE indicators, scored on a 0–100 scale, can be used to compare 140 economies that now account for 98 …
View Full ResourceDistributed energy resources (DERs) play an important and growing role in the electricity grid and the clean energy transition. Technological improvements, consumer preferences, and state and federal policies all make it likely that DERs’ role will continue to grow. However, efficient deployment and operation of these resources still require smart policies. While appropriate compensation for DERs has received considerable attention in DER policy discussions, one important dimension has received less attention: informational gaps and asymmetries. In particular, key information about distribution networks, energy consumption, and marginal emission rates is often either entirely lacking or readily available only to some parties.…
View Full ResourceThe U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen Program, led by the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office (HFTO) within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) addresses the development of applications that use hydrogen in place of today’s fuels and technologies that provide modern energy services. DOE programs also consider hydrogen as an established chemical feedstock, for example, in petroleum refining. The DOE programs include over 400 projects of research and development (R&D), systems integration, demonstrations, and initial deployment activities performed by universities, national laboratories, and industry. These programs cover the hydrogen energy value chain starting with producing …
View Full ResourceThe fuel efficiency of conventional private vehicles is a key input in the design of several economic and environmental policies. Reliable projections of the fuel efficiency variable can improve estimates on the future emission savings from policies promoting vehicle replacement, and on future revenues from fuel taxes. This paper examines the evolution of fuel efficiency using data on cars entering the US market from 1984 to 2020. It uses a series of new indexes for the gasoline cost in OECD countries and the stringency of fuel economy regulations. The paper shows that the effect of fuel prices and taxes is …
View Full ResourceThe inaugural edition of the World Energy Employment Report is – to the best of our knowledge – the first comprehensive inventory of the global energy workforce.
The report presents new estimates of the size and distribution of the labour force, across regions and technologies, and increases the granularity on the number of workers along the entire energy value chain. This includes fossil fuel and bioenergy production; power sector generation, transmission, distribution and storage; and end uses, including vehicles and energy efficiency for buildings and industry. It also details segments of the value chain where these jobs are located, including …
View Full ResourceBioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is a hybrid carbon removal solution that integrates both nature- and tech-based processes. BECCS involves capturing carbon dioxide in plants, converting it into power, heat, or fuel, and then storing subsequent carbon emissions in rock formations (a process known as dedicated geologic storage) or using them to make carbon-based products. Not all forms of BECCS result in net carbon removal — many factors must be taken into consideration, including the source and type of biomass, transportation requirements, efficiency of conversion processes, and end use of captured carbon.…
View Full ResourceMost states require utilities to engage in electricity resource planning to substantiate that the utility’s plans for meeting demand for electricity services are in the public interest. Planning varies greatly by state but is typically accomplished through processes set by the state utility regulator, often called a public utility commission (PUC), through a docketed proceeding with public involvement. Plans consider future customer needs, available resources to meet those needs, costs, benefits, and risks over the long term. The planning processes provide stakeholders a forum to submit feedback on resource options and offer states an opportunity to accelerate progress towards environmental, …
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