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Fit and fair: The case for a European fund for targeted renovation

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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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Policy Brief July 7, 2021

Minimum energy performance standards: A tool for building renovation in Spain

By Louise Sunderland, Cecilia Foronda, Javier Tobías Read now
Policy Brief July 7, 2021

Normas mínimas de eficiencia energética: una herramienta para la rehabilitación de edificios en España

By Louise Sunderland, Cecilia Foronda, Javier Tobías Read now
Presentation June 30, 2021

How Other States Are Evaluating Transportation Electrification Proposals

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Presentation June 29, 2021

DER Aggregation: Lessons Learned from Other States

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Presentation June 25, 2021

Regulatory and Policy Options to Enable Beneficial Building Electrification

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Presentation June 24, 2021

Performance-Based Regulation for Resilience

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Presentation June 24, 2021

Key Drivers for Building Policies

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Presentation June 22, 2021

Aggregated and Anonymized Data: Similarities & Differences, Opportunities & Barriers

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Presentation June 22, 2021

Beneficial Electrification and EV Rate Design

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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
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