EnergyFit NYC

With only 1.73% of all New York State retrofits through the Home Performance program occurring in NYC, Pratt Center for Community Development strongly believes that it is time for a New York City focused, small homes energy efficiency program, specifically designed for the building stock and homeowners that live here. This program must leverage the opportunities that arise from NYC’s unique 1-4 family homes and it must be designed to work for the low-and moderate-income families that live in and own them.…

BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy

Welcome to BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy which records the events of 2017, a year in which global energy markets took a partial step back from the exceptional momentum of recent years towards a lower carbon energy system.

Prior to 2017, there had been three successive years of little or no growth in carbon emissions from energy consumption. This came about through accelerating gains in energy efficiency muting growth in energy demand, and rapid growth in renewable energy combined with successive falls in
global coal consumption leading to improvements in the fuel mix. That progress partially reversed last year. …

Energy Perspectives 2018

The transition to a more sustainable energy system is too slow. A sustainable development path, consistent with the 2-degree target, does not allow for further delays in policy, industry and consumer action to reduce emissions.

There is an agreement that a growing population and economic growth will increase the demand for goods, activities, and services that require energy. The challenge is to meet this growing demand while contributing to increased sustainability. This requires substantial improvements in energy efficiency and a rapid change in the global energy mix.

Our report is being published for the eighth consecutive year. It presents three …

U.S. Energy and Employment Report

The USEER examines four sectors of the economy – “Electric Power Generation and Fuels”, “Transmission, Distribution, and Storage”, “Energy Efficiency”, and “Motor Vehicles”. The first two of these sectors, Electric Power Generation and Fuels and Transmission, Distribution, and Storage make up what are generally considered the “Traditional Energy” sectors. Energy Efficiency cuts across a range of occupations, especially construction and professional services, but includes manufacturing as well. The Motor Vehicles industry is included because its products play a special role in modern society’s use of energy with transportation representing 71 percent of the country’s daily domestic oil consumption and 28 …

Energy Employment By State

Alabama has an average concentration of energy employment, with 50,383 Traditional
Energy workers statewide (representing 1.5 percent of all U.S. Traditional Energy
jobs). Of these Traditional Energy workers, 9,758 are in Electric Power Generation,
10,220 are in Fuels, and 30,405 are in Transmission, Distribution, and Storage. The
Traditional Energy sector in Alabama is 2.6 percent of total state employment
(compared to 2.3 percent of national employment). Alabama has an additional 29,949
jobs in Energy Efficiency (1.3 percent of all U.S. Energy Efficiency jobs) and 65,873
jobs in Motor Vehicles (2.7 percent of all U.S. Motor Vehicle jobs).…

New Efficiency: New York

Energy efficiency is one of the cornerstones in New York State’s national leadership on clean energy and combatting climate change. Through a new comprehensive strategy, New York State is on a path to accelerate energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, decrease consumer energy costs, and create job opportunities.

The New Efficiency: New York report recommends a comprehensive mix of strategies to support building developers, commercial and institutional building owners, industrial facilities, and residential households to pursue improvements that reduce energy consumption across the State. These efficiency improvements will enable New York to meet an ambitious new target of 185 …

Global Energy Outlooks Comparison Methods

We update a harmonization methodology previously developed in 2015 to facilitate comparisons
of long-term global energy projections issued by the International Energy Agency, US Energy
Information Administration, ExxonMobil, BP, and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting
Countries. We continue to find important differences across outlooks in primary energy units used,
assumed energy content of fossil fuels, assumed efficiency of nuclear and renewable electricity
conversion from primary energy, categorization of biofuels, and inclusion (or exclusion) of traditional
biomass. For example, the US EIA and BP’s exclusion of non-marketed traditional biomass yields
estimates of global primary energy consumption that are 8 to …

State energy factsheet: Minnesota

This report provides a fact-based overview of Minnesota’s power sector. It presents key metrics, highlights recent trends and discusses the outlook and opportunities for clean energy…

The Economics of Renewable Energy Support

This paper uses theoretical and numerical economic equilibrium models to examine optimal renewable energy (RE) support policies for wind and solar resources in the presence of a carbon externality associated with the use of fossil fuels. We emphasize three main issues for policy design: the heterogeneity of intermittent natural resources, budget-neutral financing rules, and incentives for carbon mitigation. We find that differentiated subsidies for wind and solar, while being optimal, only yield negligible efficiency gains. Policies with smart financing of RE subsidies which either relax budget neutrality or use “polluter-pays-the-price” financing in the context of budget-neutral schemes can, however, approximate …

Global Energy & CO2 Status Report 2017

Global energy demand grew by 2.1% in 2017, according to IEA preliminary estimates, more than twice the
growth rate in 2016. Global energy demand in 2017 reached an estimated 14 050 million tonnes of oil
equivalent (Mtoe), compared with 10 035 Mtoe in 2000.

Fossil-fuels met 70% of the growth in energy demand around the world. Natural gas demand increased the
most, reaching a record share of 22% in total energy demand. Renewables also grew strongly, making up
around a quarter of global energy demand growth, while nuclear use accounted for 2% of the growth. The
overall share of fossil …