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Cutting steel sector emissions is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5°C by 2050, and to accomplish this goal, decarbonization and economic strategies must include ambitious action in the Great Lakes. To help state policymakers, economic development offices, and regional NGOs support the Great Lakes steel industry transition, RMI has produced a series of state-specific memos that outline:
1) The scale and enabling environment required for near-zero-emissions steel production
2) Gaps and opportunities for policymakers and other state-level actors to support via policy and infrastructure projects
3) Specific site outlook and recommendations at the facility level…
In recent decades, the U.S. has not been able to construct the volume of high-voltage backbone transmission facilities needed to support the country’s move to a ‘greener’ power system. The fact remains, though, that power generation infrastructure in the U.S. is changing fast with the growth of technologies including solar and wind power generation, as well as energy storage. Facilitating that change will require a grid that is able to reliably and cost-effectively deliver power to users. The inability to build backbone transmission infrastructure thwarts customer demands for a ‘greener’ power mix.
This report offers perspectives from a range of …
Cutting steel sector emissions is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5°C by 2050, and to accomplish this goal, decarbonization and economic strategies must include ambitious action in the Great Lakes. To help state policymakers, economic development offices, and regional NGOs support the Great Lakes steel industry transition, RMI has produced a series of state-specific memos that outline:
– The scale and enabling environment required for near-zero-emissions steel production
– Gaps and opportunities for policymakers and other state-level actors to support via policy and infrastructure projects
– Specific site outlook and recommendations at the facility level…
By 2050, the OES Roadmap targets have outlined that there is the potential for wave and tidal stream technologies (referred to collectively as ocean energy technologies) to contribute 300GW of renewable energy generation capacity to the global Net Zero transition. This installed capacity of ocean energy also has the capability to create 680,000 jobs, generate $340 billion in gross value added (GVA), and prevent over 500 million tonnes of carbon emissions.…
View Full ResourceEnergy investors are increasingly questioning the fate of new U.S. laws designed to accelerate cleantech deployment as the country enters a highly contentious 2024 national election cycle. The response by the U.S. financial sector to the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the clean energy provisions of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Chips Act has been extraordinary in scale yet lopsided in impact.
The future of sectors such as renewable power, batteries, electric vehicles, advanced nuclear, and low-carbon hydrogen or carbon capture and storage (CCUS) could hinge on what happens to the IRA and the clean energy provisions of the …
Cutting steel sector emissions is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5°C by 2050, and to accomplish this goal, decarbonization and economic strategies must include ambitious action in the Great Lakes. To help state policymakers, economic development offices, and regional NGOs support the Great Lakes steel industry transition, RMI has produced a series of state-specific memos that outline:
1) The scale and enabling environment required for near-zero-emissions steel production
2) Gaps and opportunities for policymakers and other state-level actors to support via policy and infrastructure projects
3) Specific site outlook and recommendations at the facility level…
States are increasingly interested in gas distribution system planning and the role that demand-side resources can play in maintaining an affordable, reliable, equitable, and low-carbon energy system. In particular, public utility commissions and utilities are exploring the role of non-pipeline alternatives (NPA) – an investment or activity that defers, reduces, or avoids the need to construct or replace a pipeline – in gas distribution system planning.
NPAs are an emerging cost and risk mitigation tool that can provide gas utilities with an opportunity to reduce emissions, gas system costs, and customer risk by avoiding unnecessary infrastructure spending. Rather than address …
View Full ResourceAs countries pursue decarbonization goals, the rapid expansion of transmission capacity for renewable energy (RE) integration poses a significant challenge due to hurdles such as permitting and cost allocation. However, we find that large-scale reconductoring with advanced composite-core conductors can cost-effectively double transmission capacity within existing right-of-way (ROW), with limited additional permitting. This strategy unlocks a high availability of increasingly economically viable RE resources in close proximity to the existing network. We implement reconductoring in a model of the United States power system, showing that the consideration of reconductoring enables four times more transmission build-out by 2035 – representing over …
View Full ResourceCutting steel sector emissions is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5°C by 2050, and to accomplish this goal, decarbonization and economic strategies must include ambitious action in the Great Lakes. To help state policymakers, economic development offices, and regional NGOs support the Great Lakes steel industry transition, RMI has produced a series of state-specific memos that outline:
– The scale and enabling environment required for near-zero-emissions steel production
– Gaps and opportunities for policymakers and other state-level actors to support via policy and infrastructure projects
– Specific site outlook and recommendations at the facility level…
Cutting steel sector emissions is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5°C by 2050, and to accomplish this goal, decarbonization and economic strategies must include ambitious action in the Great Lakes. To help state policymakers, economic development offices, and regional NGOs support the Great Lakes steel industry transition, RMI has produced a series of state-specific memos that outline:
– The scale and enabling environment required for near-zero-emissions steel production
– Gaps and opportunities for policymakers and other state-level actors to support via policy and infrastructure projects
– Specific site outlook and recommendations at the facility level…