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Featured Documents
Power Perspectives 2030: On the road to a decarbonised power sector - Full Report
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Power Perspectives 2030: On the road to a decarbonised power sector - Full Report
"Power Perspectives 2030: On the road to a decarbonised power sector” is a new study that shows us what needs to be done in the EU by 2030 to have a fully decarbonised power sector by 2050. It helps policymakers and business alike to navigate the medium term path to decarbonising the EU power system. The study contributes to the ‘Roadmap2050 study’ that showed the feasibility of achieving 80 percent greenhouse gas emission reductions in Europe by 2050 using today’s technologies
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- European Climate Foundation
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- 7 MB
Zusammenfassung: Energetische Sanierung von Wohngebäuden - Ein Fahrplan für die Zukunft/Executive Summary: Residential Efficiency Retrofits - A Roadmap for the Future
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Zusammenfassung: Energetische Sanierung von Wohngebäuden - Ein Fahrplan für die Zukunft/Executive Summary: Residential Efficiency Retrofits - A Roadmap for the Future
Rund die Hälfte der potenziell möglichen Energieeffizienzsteigerungen und Emissionsminderungen im Gebäudebereich in Nordamerika und Europa wird über die energetische Sanierung bestehender Häuser erreicht werden müssen. RAP hat den vorliegenden Fahrplan für die Zukunft erstellt, als Unterstützung für Politik und Praxis bei der Ausarbeitung und Umsetzung einer Strategie für die energetische Sanierung von Wohngebäuden. Jeder Fahrplan benötigt Wegweiser es werden deshalb acht Prinzipien für eine erfolgreiche Umsetzung vorgestellt. Sie beruhen auf den in mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten gesammelten internationalen Erfahrungen und der Notwendigkeit, sowohl erheblich größere Einsparungen pro Gebäude zu erzielen als auch ein wesentlich breiteres Marktsegment zu erreichen, als das bis heute irgendein Gebiet oder Staat geschafft hat.
Roughly half of all efficiency and/or carbon emission reduction potential in North America and European buildings are associated with retrofit improvements to existing homes. RAP has prepared this Roadmap for the Future to assist policymakers and practitioners in both designing and implementing a residential retrofit strategy. Because a roadmap requires some key guideposts, we present eight principles for success. These are premised on the lessons learned from over two decades of international experience and the imperative to both achieve much deeper levels of savings per home and reach a much broader swath of the market than any region, nation, or state has achieved to date.
Full report (in English only at this time) is available at: http://www.raponline.org/document/download/id/918.
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- Meg Gottstein
- Blair Hamilton
- Chris Neme
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- 525 kB
Incorporating Environmental Costs in Electric Rates: Working to Ensure Affordable Compliance with Public Health and Environmental Regulations
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Incorporating Environmental Costs in Electric Rates: Working to Ensure Affordable Compliance with Public Health and Environmental Regulations
The purpose of this paper is to give utility regulators an appreciation for the breadth of issues that may cause cost impacts on fossil-fuel power plants over the coming decades. The paper begins with a brief recital of major forthcoming public health and environmental regulations for power plants. It identifies some of the costs of compliance with these existing and potential regulations. It then turns to how these costs will likely be presented to utility regulators and discusses how regulators should evaluate them.
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- David Farnsworth
- Jim Lazar
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Latest Documents
Who Should Deliver Ratepayer Funded Energy Efficiency? A 2011 Update
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Who Should Deliver Ratepayer Funded Energy Efficiency? A 2011 Update
This report describes policy options and approaches for administering ratepayer-funded electric energy efficiency programs in US states. It reviews how states have administered energy efficiency programs to learn what lessons their experience offers, and describes the most important factors states should consider with different administrative models. State legislators and utility regulators will find this report useful as they consider ways for energy efficiency administration to be more effective, both in states that are considering the question for the first time, and in more experienced states that are implementing significant increases in their savings goals. RAP’s first version of this report was written in 2003.
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- Rich Sedano
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- 3 MB
Climate-Friendly Air Quality Management: Strategies for Co-Control
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Climate-Friendly Air Quality Management: Strategies for Co-Control
Climate-friendly air quality management refers to techniques, policies, and regulations that promote concurrent reductions of criteria and toxic pollutants and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Recent studies have shown that significant benefits can be achieved through integrating climate change mitigation and air quality improvement efforts. Recognizing the linkages between controlling local air pollution and GHGs can help air regulators leverage the political momentum and financial resources that currently back the low-carbon agenda. An air quality action plan that is designed to simultaneously achieve significant reductions in GHGs can contribute to meeting climate change goals, can offer more benefit to the broader society, and can stand to garner greater support across government agencies and sectors. This paper explores the implications of the May 11, 2010 Regional Air Quality Management Rule (RAQM) and presents a range of information and policy options to help local, regional, and central-level air quality planners in China and around the world.
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- Chris James
- Rebecca Schultz
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Securing Grids for a Sustainable Future
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Securing Grids for a Sustainable Future
The efficient delivery of Europe’s longer term decarbonisation goals will require substantial levels of investment in the inter-regional transmission grid by 2020, on the order of €140 to €200 billion according to recent studies. Securing these investments, which are necessary to deliver a power grid with much lower operating costs, is the focus of the European Commission’s proposed new regulations. Drawing on international examples of innovative arrangements and best practices, this Policy Brief sets out key considerations for the evolving European approach to infrastructure planning and investment to ensure that it is coordinated, efficient, competitive, equitable and transparent. An accompanying overview of several case studies is also available at: http://www.raponline.org/document/download/id/4624.
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- Phil Baker
- Meg Gottstein
- RAP Research Team
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- 541 kB
