The Return on Investment of U.S. Clean Hydrogen Policy

The Return on Investment of U.S. Clean Hydrogen Policy (June 2025) quantifies the economic return of U.S. clean hydrogen hubs (H2Hubs) and policy incentives by comparing low-carbon hydrogen program costs with their potential economic benefits.

In 2021, Congress passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), providing $8 billion in funding for new energy infrastructure nationwide. States, local governments, and the private sector have strongly supported H2 Hubs, with at least 469 companies committing up to $50 billion for hub projects.

As momentum for clean energy investment continued, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in 2022, creating an incentive for producing …

Regulatory Perspectives on Analytical Codes and Methods for Advanced Reactors

Analytical codes and methods play a critical role in the design and safety analysis of nuclear reactors, helping to evaluate complex systems against potential severe events. This NEA report addresses the regulatory requirements for these tools and their application in reactor design and safety analysis.

Informed by a comprehensive survey of experts drawn from the NEA Working Group on the Safety of Advanced Reactors (WGSAR), the report highlights key areas such as verification, validation, and uncertainty estimation. It discusses differences in regulatory approaches, particularly in code certification and user qualifications, and the necessity for simulation tools to address Generation IV …

Reactor Core and Containment Cooling Systems

The activity was co-ordinated by the French Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire (IRSN) and attracted 188 experts from more than 28 countries representing regulatory organisations, reactor designers, operators, consultancies, engineering companies, technical support organisations (TSOs) and research establishments.

The workshop was organised as a follow-up to NEA activities on establishing a knowledge base for long-term core cooling reliability (NEA, 2013) and on the long-term management and actions for a severe accident in a nuclear power plant (NEA, 2021). It aimed at providing an update on recent developments related to practices for maintaining the core and containment cooling functions …

Overcoming All Barriers To Industrial Electrification

Industry– steel, cement, chemicals, manufacturing– is the world’s second largest energy consumer, and its energy needs are growing, up 70 percent this century. We can’t hit our climate goals without cleaning up industry, and businesses can’t remain competitive in a global marketplace that increasingly values clean products. Countries and companies that don’t evolve will get left behind.

Fortunately, market-ready technologies now exist to electrify many industrial processes. Energy Innovation’s new roadmap for electrifying industry shows how we can realize a cleaner industrial future.…

Environmental Justice and CCS Infrastructure: Overlaps and Oversights at the National and State Levels Open Access

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is critical in meeting U.S. decarbonization goals. Recently, tax incentives and federal grants have spurred interest in CCS resulting in dozens of projects in various stages of development across the country. The federal government has created metrics to measure which communities have been historically disadvantaged or overburdened by pollution and has made efforts to not unnecessarily harm these communities as CCS is deployed at scale.…

Building Markets to Scale Carbon Management Solutions

As global energy demand grows and the urgency of climate action intensifies, Carbon Management Solutions (CMS) are increasingly recognized as essential tools for helping balance economic resilience, energy security, and emissions reduction. The International Energy Forum’s latest report, Building Markets to Scale Carbon Management Solutions, explores how comprehensive policy frameworks and commercial market development can unlock the full potential of CMS, from Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) to clean hydrogen.…

Monthly Oil & Gas Data Review (June 2025)

Oil demand in JODI-reporting countries was up in April by 1.58 mb/d month-on-month (m/m) and by 1.68 mb/d year-on-year (y/y). The m/m growth was driven mainly by higher demand in the US (+1.4 mb/d), followed by Italy (+293 kb/d), and Turkey(+100 kb/d). The y/y increase was driven mainly by higher crude oil demand from the US (~ +1.4 mb/d), Nigeria (+268 kb/d), Italy (+255 kb/d), Canada (+245 kb/d) and Turkey (+84 kb/d). The global Gasoline demand in the preliminary JODI reporting countries rose by 1.2 mb/d, and Jet Fuel by 346 kb/d, m/m. LPG demand in contrast declined by 287 …

2024 Reliabilty Performance and Regional Risk Assessment

Electricity is the key driver of modern life and the foundation of our digital future. The North American BPS faces mounting resource adequacy challenges from surging demand growth to power our increasingly electrified economies combined with thermal generator retirements. The Texas RE/ERCOT Region (hereafter “Region”) is at the forefront of these changes. The Region is forecasting unprecedented load growth that is primarily driven by the integration of large loads associated with new data centers and artificial intelligence (AI) services, as well as increased demand from the oil and gas sectors. ERCOT currently forecasts an additional 70.5 GW of new load …

Regulatory Sandboxes and Other Processes to Expedite Utility Adoption of Advanced Grid Technologies

Advanced grid technologies are increasingly important to enable electric transmission and distribution systems to meet growing demands. However, traditional regulatory processes typically lag technological advancements. Regulatory sandboxes, which provide a structured environment for testing new technologies and business approaches under modified rules to increase the speed of adoption, aim to bridge the gap between grid needs and opportunities to deliver solutions at scale.…

The Importance of Natural Gas to Illinois

The severe economic burden that forced electrification would place on families across the state, with particular harm to the 37% of Illinois households already living below the ALICE (Asset-Limited, Income-Constrained, Employed) threshold. Currently, Illinois consumes the eighth highest amount of natural gas in the country, with nearly 8 out of 10 Illinois homes relying on natural gas for heating.

In this report, CEA found that if Illinois households had been forced to switch to all-electric heating, their utility bills would have increased by $7.6 billion statewide or $2,631 per household.…