Financing Zero-Emission Trucking Infrastructure in India

This report explores strategies to finance the expansion of charging infrastructure to meet the power demands of ZETs. It maps the lending landscape to identify the most suitable financiers for different types of charging and examines how financial tools such as debt, equity, blended finance, and government intervention accelerate infrastructure development. Finally, it outlines practical implementation pathways, offering guidance on how public and private stakeholders can effectively coordinate efforts to accelerate the deployment of charging infrastructure and requisite grid upgrades at scale.…

National Hydrogen Strategies and Roadmap Tracker

CGEP is pleased to publish this National Hydrogen Strategies and Roadmap Tracker. It gathers the official documents published by governments, including the updates of the strategies and roadmaps when relevant. It does not include strategies which have only been announced in the press, and for which no official document was published.This document will be regularly updated as new strategies and roadmaps are published, and documents and links updated.…

Global Wood Fuel Production Estimates and Implications

Global wood fuel production can indicate opportunities and also challenges in sustainable development, forest management, and energy access. Estimates of wood fuel removals and charcoal production are essential for tracking global goals yet reliable measurements are rare. We synthesize existing understanding through a mechanistic, conceptual model and build on it to develop statistical models from official statistics and over 2000 newly identified data points. For 2019, we estimate 2525.7 million m3 of wood fuel removals globally, approximately 30% higher than previously understood. Our estimates are 50% higher in Africa and 40% higher in Asia, 10% lower in the Americas and …

Connecting the World

All routes to a global net-zero economy require massive clean electrification. Scenarios developed by the ETC suggest that electricity’s share of final energy demand will have to rise from around 20% today to over 60% by mid-century. This implies an almost tripling of global electricity supply rising from today’s 30,000 TWh to around 90,000 TWh by 2050.

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Second-Life Electric Vehicle Batteries in Mobile Charging Systems

As electric vehicle (EV) adoption accelerates, mobile charging systems are emerging as a fast, flexible complement to fixed stations. This briefing paper examines how repurposed EV batteries can slash costs, ease supply-chain pressure, and cut carbon while bringing chargers to remote, disaster-stricken, or high-demand locations.

Drawing on market scans and use-case analysis, we found that second-life batteries (SLBs) can cost as little as 25 percent of an equivalent new pack, unlocking mobile systems that are cheaper to build and deploy. With up to 40 GWh of retired EV batteries expected to be available in the United States by 2030, SLBs …

Flexible Data Centers and the Gird: Lower Costs, Higher Emissions?

Data centers are among the fastest-growing electricity consumers, raising concerns about their impact on grid operations and decarbonization goals. Their temporal flexibility—the ability to shift workloads over time—offers a source of demand-side flexibility. We model power systems in three U.S. regions: Mid-Atlantic, Texas, and WECC, under varying flexibility levels. We evaluate flexibility’s effects on grid operations, investment, system costs, and emissions. Across all scenarios, flexible data centers reduce costs by shifting load from peak to off-peak hours, flattening net demand, and supporting renewable and baseload resources. This load shifting facilitates renewable integration while improving the utilization of existing baseload capacity. …

One Big Beautiful Bill Act Fact Sheet

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) was signed into law on July 4, 2025. While the bill contains many tax provisions, this document focuses on the portions most impactful to natural gas and hydrogen motor fueled vehicles.…

Alabama Power’s Plant Miller: An Economic Assessment of Alternative Portfolios

Alabama Power should also continually evaluate the costs and risks of keeping the plant on-line by looking at viable alternatives. Although the alternative portfolios presented in this report are meant to be illustrative, the results of the analysis have demonstrated that the continued operation of Plant Miller (with or without carbon sequestration retrofits) is uneconomic, and Alabama Power would be able to provide customers with cost savings by investing further in clean energy resources.…

Fewer New Miles: Strategic Industries Held Back By Slow Pace Of Transmission

The United States is entering a period of surging electricity demand growth, driven by the expansion of geopolitically and nationally strategic industries such as semiconductor chip manufacturing and artificial intelligence (AI). These sectors are critical to national competitiveness and economic development, but their success depends on reliable, affordable access to electricity. While new sources of generation are coming online, the high-voltage transmission system needed to deliver that power is not being built at the pace required to meet this rising demand.…

Transporting Hydrogen

Clean hydrogen is needed to achieve an energy-secore, net-zero future, with feasible use cases ranging from fertilizer production and steelmaking to zero-carbon fuels and beyond. As this nascent sector develops, clean hydrogen will need to be transported from where it is produced to where it is consumed, often over long distances. Seaborne transportation of clean hydrogen, however, will be significantly constrained by unfavorable techno-economic factors and technical challenges. Instead, clean hydrogen trade will primarily occur via pipeline, although some countries may import electricity to serve as a feedstock for domestic hydrogen production.…