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How Electrifying Trucks Can Help Roadside Neighborhoods Breathe Easier

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Building on peer-to-peer relationships, our team helps energy and air quality regulators and NGOs navigate the complexities of power sector policy, regulation, and markets.

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Renovating Regulation to Electrify Buildings: A Guide for the Handy Regulator

Existing policies and regulations covering energy use in buildings may have served us well in the past, but now some of them create unnecessary barriers to beneficial electrification. Addressing these challenges will help realize the full potential of electrified, flexible, grid-integrated buildings. A new guidebook, a collaboration between Regulatory Assistance Project and Synapse Energy Economics, details some of the changes we need.

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We focus primarily on the world's four largest power markets: China, the European Union, India, and the United States.  

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EV Roadmap: Options for Lawmakers

Carefully crafted, comprehensive legislation will be a key enabling tool for successfully electrifying cars, trucks, buses, taxis and ports. ​RAP's Roadmap for Electric Transportation offers a menu of choices, allowing policymakers to choose what works best in their state.

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How Electrifying Trucks Can Help Roadside Neighborhoods Breathe Easier

We know that electrifying trucks, as we wrote last month, can reduce significant amounts of air pollution; it can also have significant health benefits, particularly for frontline communities. Analysis by Alexander Meitiv and Ann Xu for Texas A&M’s Transportation Institute finds that, by electrifying just 40% of existing, predominantly diesel-fueled medium-... By David Farnsworth, Camille Kadoch, Nancy Seidman

How Electrifying Trucks Can Help Roadside Neighborhoods Breathe Easier

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Policy Brief June 15, 2021

Sharing the Good Stuff: Best Practices From Three Minnesota Initiatives

By Carl Linvill, Megan Anderson, David Littell, Camille Kadoch, David Farnsworth Read now
Policy Brief June 14, 2021

Fit for 55: Aligning European policy for decarbonised heat in buildings

By Louise Sunderland, Marion Santini, Jan Rosenow Read now
Policy Brief June 10, 2021

Making renewable heating ‘Fit for 55’

By Samuel Thomas, Dominic Scott, Jan Rosenow Read now
Report June 8, 2021

Pricing is just the icing: The role of carbon pricing in a comprehensive policy framework to decarbonise the EU buildings sector

By Samuel Thomas, Louise Sunderland, Marion Santini Read now
Presentation June 3, 2021

Process and Engagement in a Time of Change

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Report June 1, 2021

Next steps for MEPS: Designing minimum energy performance standards for European buildings

By Louise Sunderland, Marion Santini Read now
Presentation May 27, 2021

Electricity Pricing: Policies, Practices and Pitfalls

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中国西北地区电力行业转型和煤电退出路线图: 政策和监管策略

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Policy Brief May 26, 2021

Road Map for Power Sector Transition and Coal Generation Retirement in Northwest China: Policy and Regulatory Strategies

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Presentation May 20, 2021

Under Pressure: Gas Utility Regulation for a Time of Transition

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