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Unlocking India’s clean energy potential through demand flexibility and distributed energy resources

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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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RAP's experts highlight policy, regulatory, and market solutions to accelerate the clean energy transition.

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Unlocking India’s clean energy potential through demand flexibility and distributed energy resources

India’s quest to strengthen the long ailing power distribution sector has largely revolved around proposals to restructure the sector and redesign retail tariffs with periodic financial bailouts. These proposals show promise in alleviating present issues. It becomes crucial, however, to deliberate and critique these ideas and proposals through different lenses,... By Dheer Patel

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Report January 8, 2021

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

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Presentation January 5, 2021

Transportation Electrification Trends

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Policy Brief January 5, 2021

Energy communities with grid benefits: A quest for a blueprint

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Report December 22, 2020

North Carolina Energy Regulatory Process

By Josh Brooks, Dan Cross-Call, Heather House, Jessica Shipley Read now
Presentation December 15, 2020

Using PBR for Electric Vehicle Grid Integration

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Presentation December 7, 2020

PBR and DER in a Changing Regulatory World

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Policy Brief November 25, 2020

Article 7 of the Energy Efficiency Directive 3.0

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Electrifying city logistics in the European Union: Optimising charging saves cost

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Recommendations: Analysis of electrification of city logistics

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Presentation November 17, 2020

Making a Clean Energy Future an Equitable One

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