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Scaling up investment flows in nuclear energy is one of the major challenges for OECD and NEA countries that have decided or are considering the construction of nuclear power plants. This report offers a comprehensive review of global financing strategies, aiming to establish a common vocabulary and basis for comparative analysis to identify and discuss key lessons learnt about the relative merits of different strategies to finance nuclear projects. While there are no simple solutions for financing new nuclear projects, this report helps identify the “building blocks” that policymakers and private sector decision makers can leverage to help finance a …
View Full ResourceThe United States Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database (USPVDB) provides the locations and array boundaries of U.S. ground-mounted photovoltaic (PV) facilities with capacity of 1 megawatt or more. It includes corresponding PV facility information, including panel type, site type, and initial year of operation. The creation of this database was jointly funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) via the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Energy Markets and Policy Department, and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Energy Resources Program. The PV facility records are collected from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), position-verified and digitized …
View Full ResourceWe are at a critical crossroads in our nation’s use of energy. Our need to advance clean, reliable energy solutions that allow for strong economic growth is paramount. Through the Better Buildings Initiative, DOE partners with hundreds of leading organizations to advance and demonstrate realworld solutions. These solutions showcase our collective success in driving down costs while reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving energy independence, and fostering workforce development.
Through the Better Buildings Initiative, DOE works with organizations across the nation to improve buildings and manufacturing plants. The cumulative result of this work is reported below and demonstrates the remarkable impacts …
View Full ResourceEnergy storage and electrification of buildings hold great potential for future decarbonized energy systems. However, there are several technical and economic barriers that prevent large-scale adoption and integration of energy storage in buildings. These barriers include integration with building control systems, high capital costs, and the necessity to identify and quantify value streams for different stakeholders. To overcome these obstacles, it is crucial to develop advanced sizing and dispatch methods to assist planning and operational decision-making for integrating energy storage in buildings. This work develops a simple and flexible optimal sizing and dispatch framework for thermal energy storage (TES) and …
View Full ResourceIntegrated resource planning (IRP) is becoming more complex due to increasing renewable energy integration, retirements of fossil fuel plants, growing customer-sited and distributed energy resources, and impacts of climate change. Traditional grid modeling assumptions, once acceptable for modeling grids supported by centralized fossil fuel plants, are becoming outdated and risk undervaluing the role of renewables, energy storage, and demand flexibility in grid planning. This creates a challenge and opportunity for utilities, which perform grid modeling in IRP, and regulators, who are tasked with evaluating utility modeling assumptions, methodologies, and outputs. As grid dynamics evolve, accurate modeling is essential for ensuring …
View Full ResourceNew sources of clean electricity supply could theoretically meet demand growth. But there are significant constraints to building new generation resources, including an electric grid in need of upgrades and lengthy processes to complete energy projects.
Left unchecked, demand growth coupled with the constraints to adding new electricity supply could slow the transition to clean, reliable, and affordable energy. Using their renewable energy analytics platform, EnergyInsite, they measured and mapped electricity demand growth and supply constraints across the U.S. to identify the most acute challenges and provide utility planners and customer program leaders with practical steps to navigate the road …
View Full Resource• DOE i2X Program + Roadmap Overview
• Panel Presentations: Improving Economic Efficiency of
Interconnection
• Fritz Kahrl (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
• Tyler Norris (Duke University)
• Mario Hayden (Enel)
• Jeff Billinton (CAISO)
• Open facilitated discussion
• Future i2x Activities & Upcoming Events…
Despite its intrinsic relevance and policy makers’ efforts to address the infrastructure gap, progress has been limited. A confluence of challenges from macroeconomic shocks and political instability to weak institutional capacity has hindered the capacity of countries to develop infrastructure that meets demand. Increasing efficiencies in delivering infrastructure services is at the core of addressing the gap. Numerous countries have turned to private sector participation in infrastructure development to achieve these efficiencies and catalyze private capital investments.
Although there are different modalities to procure infrastructure, public-private partnerships (PPPs) have been extensively used by many countries to deliver successful programs. This …
View Full ResourceThe Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a national leader in clean energy policy. In recent years, it has adopted ambitious energy storage procurement targets supported by innovative policies and programs, which are entering a period of internal review. The Commonwealth also has a long-held commitment to equity in its clean energy programs.
Against this backdrop, Clean Energy Group contracted with the Applied Economics Clinic to provide an analysis of the equity provisions in three Massachusetts energy storage programs: ConnectedSolutions, the SMART solar program, and the Clean Peak Standard. The resulting analysis, Energy Storage Equity: An Assessment of Three Massachusetts Programs, concludes …
View Full ResourceAround the world, countries are making commitments to reduce consumption of fossil fuels to address climate change: The leaders of countries in the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia are cognizant of these efforts, and some have plans to diversify their economies and reduce carbon emissions. Toward that end, many countries are looking to produce and procure clean energy technologies, but these technologies are reliant on critical minerals. Strategic and economic competition between the United States, Russia, and China has been the driver of many so-called de-risking policies, which aim to diversify critical mineral supply chains.
The authors of …
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