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Energy insecurity—the inability to maintain energy services like heating and cooling—is one of the most pressing issues in the Southeast, where more than one out of every four households face access or affordability challenges. This is more than an energy problem. Paying high energy bills and worrying about utilities being shut off can drain long-term savings, limit economic opportunities, and lead to difficult—and potentially dangerous—decisions to make tradeoffs between energy and other vital services and household items.
Energy insecurity stems from many factors, including income, energy costs, the quality and affordability of housing, historical practices and policies, access to efficient …
View Full Resource‘Building Energy Security Through Accelerated Energy Transition’ focuses on the medium term actions that could improve energy security, strengthen stability of supply and limit the impact of future fossil fuel price shocks by 2030. The analysis finds that the response should be anchored around accelerated investment in renewable energy and economy wide electrification, together with improved energy efficiency. The paper also highlights tricky trade-offs and choices that have to be made. For example while imports of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) from secure suppliers could also play a role, these must be combined with measures to reduce CO2 and methane leak …
View Full ResourceNational Grid is announcing our vision to fully eliminate fossil fuels from both our gas and electric systems by 2050 – sooner if possible – setting clear and measurable milestones along the way.
We are making this fossil-free announcement because we share our communities’ concerns about climate change. National Grid is proud of our role in helping Massachusetts and New York consistently rank at or near the top nationally in energy efficiency programs, electric vehicles on roads, solar installations, planned offshore wind, and environmental stewardship. In addition to this track record of success, the states in which we operate have …
View Full ResourceIn this study Global Efficiency Intelligence conducted a benchmarking analysis for energy and CO2 emissions intensities of the steel industry among the largest steel-producing countries. Because of the difference in the composition of the steel industry across countries and the variation in the share of electric arc furnace (EAF) steel production, a single intensity value for the overall steel industry is not a good indicator of efficiency of the steel industry in a country. Therefore, in addition to calculating CO2 intensities for the entire steel industry, they also calculated separately the CO2 intensities associated with the EAF and blast furnace–basic …
View Full ResourceIn Paris in 2015, signatories to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change agreed to pursue efforts to try to limit the rise in global temperatures by 2050 to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. The World Energy Transitions Outlook presents a pathway to that goal, one that decarbonizes all end uses, with electrification and energy efficiency as primary drivers, enabled by renewables, green hydrogen and sustainable modern bioenergy.
This second edition of the Outlook outlines priority areas and actions based on available technologies that must be realized by 2030 to achieve net-zero emissions by mid-century.
By laying out a map …
View Full ResourceSpiking gasoline prices triggered by Russia’s war in Ukraine are hitting consumers hard and putting renewed attention on the need for American energy independence. However, despite claims by the oil and gas industry, we cannot drill our way out of the problem. Instead, the best path to energy independence lies with using less fuel, not producing more. Over the past five decades, adopting clean car and fuel economy standards have been one of the most significant actions the United States has taken to reduce its reliance on oil and save drivers money at the pump. As a result of federal …
View Full ResourceThe EPA is working on regulations that will act as a successor to the Clean Power Plan and the Affordable Energy Rule. The forthcoming regulations will target carbon indirectly as a result of addressing air pollutants associated with carbon dioxide, or by requiring efficiency upgrades. Numerous legal, logistical, and policy challenges remain, however. This webinar examined what these new regulations are likely to entail, potential legal challenges, and the implications for the power industry.…
View Full ResourceThe Renewable Energy Resource Assessment Information for the United States report summarizes the results of nearly 30 national renewable energy resource assessments performed by the U.S. national laboratories since 2012. Included are assessments for solar, wind, biomass, marine, geothermal, and hydropower energy resource technologies. Increased attention is given to the renewable energy resources available near federally recognized Tribal Nations and low-to-moderate income households, where assessed.…
View Full ResourceThe massive uncertainty and upheaval that plagued the U.S. in 2020 began to ease in 2021, offering the country’s energy sector a chance to take stock of a new reality buffeted by a lingering pandemic, global supply chain bottlenecks and rising inflation, but powered by a strong economic recovery. Despite considerable uncertainty, the clean energy and energy efficiency transition continued, with a record–breaking year for deployment of renewable power, battery storage and sustainable transportation, an unprecedented injection of new capital into companies, technologies and projects, and a wave of supportive new policies.
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View Full ResourceCOVID-19 pandemic has affected clean energy labor market. Using real-time job vacancy data, this study analyzes the impacts of the pandemic on the U.S. clean energy labor market in 2020, including biomass, energy efficiency (EE), electric vehicle (EV), power/microgrid, solar, and wind industries. This study identifies how COVID-health factors and public health interventions influence clean energy job availability during the early COVID pandemic. Overall, California had the most energy jobs and experienced a significant decrease in April 2020. EV and solar had the highest percentages of job vacancies during the pandemic in general. Still, lockdowns had the most severe influence …
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