The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Program

This report aims to support state transportation departments to deploy NEVI Formula Program
funds in ways that contribute to a robust, reliable, and nationwide network of union-made,
installed, and maintained EV charging infrastructure, and maximize benefits for workers and
disadvantaged communities.…

Future-Proofed: Protecting Infrastructure in Uncertain Times

We live in a time of immense change and swirling threats. A worldwide pandemic coupled with surging climate-related disasters and an accelerating digital transformation has concentrated minds. Resilience is no longer a niche topic for business continuity specialists but at the top of leaders’ action lists: and the time to act is now.

In this report, Guidehouse explores the key infrastructure resilience challenges that organizations face, the need to rethink old models of resilience in favor of a more holistic, evolutionary approach, and how best to create a strategy to build resilience.…

Building a Common Approach: Global Infrastructure Standards

Well-planned, -designed, and -built infrastructure projects are critically needed to improve economic productivity, transition to a low-carbon economy, mitigate environmental risks, and promote human rights and social inclusion. The urgency is greatest in emerging and developing economies. Encouragingly, both public—and private—sector investors are increasingly designating funds for just these types of infrastructure projects. A recent surge in public development finance (e.g., the United States’ Build Back Better World, European Union’s Global Gateway, and United Kingdom’s Clean Green Initiative), in conjunction with existing bilateral and multilateral infrastructure initiatives (e.g., China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank), represent potentially …

Double or Nothing: How Regulators are Gambling on the Future Self-Interest of Large Oil and Gas Companies to Decommission the Gulf of Mexico’s Aging Infrastructure

The Gulf of Mexico has long been a major oil and gas producing region for the U.S., but field depletion in shallower regions near shore has driven development into deep and ultra-deep waters, driving up the cost to develop and decommission infrastructure.

Meanwhile, aging wells and platforms closer to shore — many of which are now owned by smaller operators — are increasingly marginal in value, raising the risk that they will be abandoned by their current operators.

Double or Nothing finds that as the energy transition accelerates and oil and gas wells in the Gulf of Mexico close, taxpayers …

OurEnergyPolicy Webinar Summary – The Future of America’s Infrastructure

This webinar examined America’s aging electrical grid and what is needed to modernize it.…

Electric Vehicle Sales and the Charging Infrastructure Required Through 2030

Customers continue to purchase EVs in record numbers, and electric companies are working with stakeholders to make the transition to EVs a seamless one for all drivers. Automakers are continuing to respond to customer demand by developing more EV models, including both plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and battery electric vehicles (BEVs), that are increasingly cost-competitive with their internal combustion engine (ICE) counterparts.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is critical to the continued acceleration of EVs. IIJA is the largest investment in infrastructure since the New Deal, and it contains several provisions for electric transportation including up to …

Policy Brief on Public Charging Infrastructure

The International Energy Agency prepared this report, within the framework of a Global Environment Facility (GEF) program aimed at supporting low- and middle-income economies in their transition to E-mobility. It is the first deliverable of Working Group Four on Charging, Grid Integration, Renewable Power Supply and Battery Re-use, Recycling and Safe Disposal. Its objective is to provide policy makers with a comprehensive overview of the ecosystem of public charging infrastructure (defined as infrastructure that is publicly accessible), as well as key recommendations for its efficient deployment. Although it focuses on charging systems for light-duty vehicles, the report also discusses implications …

Foreign Direct Investment, Infrastructure, and Supply Chain Resiliency: A New Nexus for US Industrial Strategy

The United States’ aging infrastructure is currently unable to support the kind of economic growth and productivity it needs to successfully compete with other advanced and emerging economies. This includes the present state of nontraditional infrastructure, such as the semiconductor industry; and recent shortages have highlighted US dependency on foreign producers. Inbound FDI stock in the United States has grown over the past decade, but the rate of FDI inflows has slowed down over the last five years: a decline of 71 percent between 2015 and 2020—while annual FDI inflows into competitors such as China have increased by 20 percent.…

Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Trends from the Alternative Fueling Station Locator: Third Quarter 2021

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Alternative Fueling Station Locator contains information on public and private nonresidential alternative fueling stations in the United States and Canada and currently tracks ethanol (E85), biodiesel, compressed natural gas, electric vehicle (EV) charging, hydrogen, liquefied natural gas, and propane stations. Of these fuels, EV charging continues to experience rapidly changing technology and growing infrastructure. This report provides a snapshot of the state of EV charging infrastructure in the United States in the third calendar quarter of 2021 (Q3). …

States’ Role in Addressing Foreign Threats in U.S. Critical Energy Infrastructure Sectors

The safety and economic security of the United States are dependent on the integrity of the nation’s critical energy infrastructure systems, including power, natural gas, and petroleum. Failure of critical assets in any of these systems could have catastrophic impacts on communities, businesses and national defense. Energy is also the backbone of all other critical infrastructure systems, meaning that an energy supply failure could have cascading effects on transportation, water, telecommunications, finance, healthcare and other sectors.

While all energy infrastructure is important, critical energy infrastructure can be defined as physical or virtual energy systems and assets so vital that the …