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As the power sector moves quickly toward decarbonization, authoritative research is demonstrating that a reliable transition that achieves economic, security, and climate goals is not only possible, but can be done at no more than – and possibly less than… View Summary +
Electric vehicles (EVs) are commonly viewed as a crucial mechanism to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, increase energy security, and improve air quality. Widespread adoption of EVs also represents an opportunity for energy utilities and consumers. On April 30, 2015,… View Summary +
The environmental benefits of electric vehicles (EVs) are widely recognized. EVs are seen as a crucial mechanism to reduce North America’s dependence on fossil fuels and increase energy security. The large-scale displacement of internal combustion vehicles by EVs would result… View Summary +
Wie in vielen anderen Regionen, wird auch in Deutschland die Systematik der Netzentgelte diskutiert. Durch die voranschreitende Transformation der Stromversorgung, hin zu einer dezentralen, lokalen Erzeugung wird die „Angemessenheit“ der heutigen Kostenverteilung in Frage gestellt. Unterschiedliche Akteure plädieren dabei immer… View Summary +
The Chinese government has set a number of goals to reduce carbon emissions and coal consumption, and also has set closely related goals to improve air quality. The power sector will be central to any attempt to meet these goals… View Summary +
Thermal energy efficiency—improvements in the usable heating and cooling performance of buildings—directly lowers energy costs and creates indirect benefits for the household and broader community. These include improved energy affordability, improved work and school productivity, job creation, and reduced greenhouse… View Summary +
Energy efficiency programs reduce utility bills, reduce emissions of multiple pollutants, and reduce the overall cost of delivering electricity services. Measuring and considering the full spectrum of benefits delivered by energy efficiency is pivotal to capturing all cost-effective efficiency resources. View Summary +
As China further deepens market economy reforms, increasing the introduction of market-driven demand response measures into the country’s system for countervailing pending power shortages could be far more economically efficient and probably more equitable than the existing administrative rationing system. View Summary +
The result of a comprehensive stakeholder-driven “roadmap” exercise, this report seeks to answer the question: “How must the Indian power system evolve if India chooses to put renewable electricity at the core of the future system, rather than at the… View Summary +
The result of a comprehensive stakeholder-driven “roadmap” exercise, this report seeks to answer the question: “How must the Indian power system evolve if India chooses to put renewable electricity at the core of the future system, rather than at the… View Summary +
The advent of smart meters and the additional data they provide means that utilities can consider expanding the use of demand charges to residential customers. However, great caution should be applied when considering this option, as severe cost shifts may… View Summary +
Time and again statements asserting that high penetrations of clean energy resources like energy efficiency and renewable energy could endanger electric system reliability have proven false. We refer to these assertions collectively as “playing the reliability card” against clean energy. View Summary +
The Energy Union Communication expected in February 2015 provides the opportunity to bring together the leading dimensions of European energy policy to drive the transition to an integrated, secure, competitive, and sustainable energy sector. To meet these goals, it is… View Summary +
This policy brief provides a side-by-side comparison of Sections 110 and 111(d) of the Clean Air Act and highlights the significant differences in requirements for state compliance plans under each section. The authors distinguish between U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA)… View Summary +