Clean Energy Expansion: Recommendations for Georgia Power

This report reviews the Georgia clean energy policy landscape, assesses Georgia Power’s existing fossil fuel-fired power plants and reviews Georgia Power clean energy program offerings. AEC identifies several sites of Georgia Power-owned retired and operating fossil-fuel energy infrastructure and recommends that Georgia Power consider replacing these sites with clean energy sources such as a solar plus storage facility. In addition, AEC recommends the Company re-assess retirement plans for fossil fuel plants with higher environmental costs that are expected to operate past 2025. Lastly, AEC provides recommendations to expand Georgia Power’s clean energy program offerings and increase customer participation in its …

Principles and Actions for More Effective Transportation Policy

Affordable, reliable transportation is the backbone of American prosperity, touching everything from family budgets to national competitiveness. This white paper explains how a modernized, innovation‑friendly policy framework can both strengthen supply chains and accelerate environmental progress. Drawing on the sector’s track record of dramatic pollution cuts—cars and trucks are now 99 percent cleaner than they were in 1970—the authors argue that market‑driven advances such as AI‑optimized logistics, cleaner fuels, and autonomous technologies can further decouple growth from emissions while keeping costs in check. ​

The authors set out a clear, technology‑neutral path for lawmakers: streamline outdated regulations, empower private capital …

Future-Proof AI Data Centers, Grid Reliability, and Affordable Energy: Recommendations for States

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming industries, but its rapid expansion is already causing a significant increase in electricity demand. Data centers that support AI model training and inference require immense computational power, putting pressure on the electric grid and raising concerns about sustainability, energy costs, and reliability. Recent projections suggest that AI-driven data centers could consume up to 9% of U.S. electricity by 2030 (equivalent to the electricity needed to power 20–40% of today’s vehicles if they were EVs), highlighting the need for policies that ensure energy-efficient, socially responsible, and environmentally sustainable development.

The emergence of DeepSeek, a highly efficient …

Reimagining the Electricity Sector in Island Nations with Virtual Power Plants

Distributed virtual power plants (VPPs) can revolutionize the Caribbean’s energy landscape. These networks of decentralized and distributed energy sources (DERs) are aggregated and actively controlled by a VPP aggregator, enabling hundreds or thousands of devices to operate as a unified system offering an innovative solution to the region’s energy challenges. Many island nations remain heavily dependent on expensive, imported and polluting fossil fuels for electricity generation, leaving them vulnerable to volatile global fuel prices and frequent power outages due to aging grid infrastructure. Climate change further exacerbates these challenges, with hurricanes posing a constant threat to power systems and economic …

Energy Transition Outlook: Spain 2025

When DNV began in Spain in 1999, their market activities were centred on the early development of renewable energy. Wind and solar power are now the dominant energy sources, and they forecast they will grow 4-fold and 6-fold, respectively, by 2050. The new challenges lie in electrifying more of Spain’s energy use and upgrading grid integration to handle all the renewable electricity.

Hydrogen generation and infrastructure will also be part of the future in an energy system that has already significantly decarbonized the power sector and aims to reduce carbon emissions further. DNV foresees hydrogen playing a key role in …

2023 Year in Review: Climate-driven Global Renewable Energy Potential Resources and Energy Demand

This collaboration involving the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), operated by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), highlights how climate conditions impact energy supply and demand in the context of sources such as solar, wind and hydropower.

The report underscores the importance of integrating climate insights into energy planning to improve reliability, anticipate demand peaks, and strengthen infrastructure resilience. It advocates diversified energy portfolios, new market structures, and better data sharing to optimise resource allocation and enhance energy security. The report stresses the need for cross-sector …

Decoding DERMS: Options for the Future of DER Management

Several converging trends are transforming the electric grid in the United States including:

– Increasing variable renewable energy generation,
– Rising electricity demand,
– Grid decentralization driven by the adoption of distributed energy resources (DERs), and
– Increasing need for electric grid resilience in response to extreme weather events.

Traditional, infrastructure-centric approaches are insufficient to deliver reliable, affordable power in this new reality. The generation, transmission, and distribution upgrades needed are simply too expensive and time-consuming to be effective on their own. Fortunately, demand flexibility has the potential to enable utilities to meet the needs of the future at much …

CFS and Transportation Markets Report

2025 has already ushered in a mixture of regulatory shifts, technological advancements, and both public and private sector leadership. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reconsidering previously adopted federal vehicle emission standards that would effectively require an increased share of electric vehicles (EVs) in the market. While proponents of the regulations view them as a necessary step toward meeting climate goals, critics argue that the required rapid transition may impose technological and economic challenges, particularly for heavy-duty transportation and long-haul trucking.

One of the most debated regulatory changes so far this year is EPA’s decision to revisit Greenhouse Gas (GHG) …

Hydrogen — Made in America, For America

Hydrogen is a strategic economic and energy opportunity to expand America’s industrial base, energy security, and global leadership. Despite good progress made in the past several years, the US hydrogen industry faces headwinds and slow scale up. The more its market lags, the more it risks falling behind other countries actively building markets and securing supply chains.

This report explores the conditions stalling US hydrogen market growth, including weak domestic demand caused by fragmented policies and challenged economics in many domestic offtake sectors. With case studies for hydrogen in exports, on-road mobility, aviation, steel, and maritime shipping, it highlights the …

Driving Emissions Reduction through Project Prioritization: Insights for State Departments of Transportation

State departments of transportation (DOTs) shape the nation’s transportation infrastructure by allocating billions of dollars of federal funding each year, and they act with broad discretion for investing these funds. To guide decision-making, states use project prioritization frameworks that aim to connect investments with transportation-sector goals.

This paper examines the complex federal-state transportation funding relationship and offers guidance for state DOTs seeking to improve their approach to project prioritization to better support climate goals. By highlighting five noteworthy approaches to project prioritization in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Virginia, this paper showcases diverse strategies for integrating greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction …