Steigende Anteile fluktuierender erneuerbarer Erzeugung stellen neue Herausforderungen an die kosteneffiziente Gewährleistung der Systemsicherheit und erhöhen den Bedarf an Flexibilität. Für den direkten Beitrag zur Versorgungssicherheit müssen diese „Flexibilitätsressourcen“ dem System in Echtzeit zur Verfügung stehen. Das gilt auch für… View Summary +

Regulators, advocates, and energy industry companies have long understood that energy efficiency policies and programs can reduce air pollution emissions associated with fuel combustion. This reduction in emissions can lead to lower environmental compliance costs and, ultimately, lower public health… View Summary +

Widespread electrification of the transportation sector holds the promise of greater vehicle efficiency and lower emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and other air pollutants. Many governments around the world have identified electric vehicles (EVs) as a cornerstone of transportation sector… View Summary +

Discussions in Germany over the future of feed-in-tariffs (FiTs) for renewables are in full force. One of the market support designs under considerable debate is the so-called “Market Premium” FiT, which Germany put in place at the beginning of 2012… View Summary +

Benchmarking, tracking building-level energy use over time, is a useful way to manage building costs and to enable energy efficient improvements. However, because large commercial buildings typically have multiple tenants whose energy usage is metered separately, tracking overall building energy… View Summary +

The European Commission launched a Consultative Communication on “The future of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in Europe”, with the aim of initiating a debate on the options available to ensure its timely development. In these comments, RAP recommends creating… View Summary +

Plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) can help deliver the EU 2050 policy vision of cities free of conventionally fuelled vehicles and a power sector absent of carbon, as they have no tailpipe emissions and create far less noise compared with conventional… View Summary +

Integrated resource planning (IRP) has been widely used in the US for over twenty years. Although some state IRP rules have remained unchanged since they were first implemented, other states have amended, repealed, and in some cases reinstated their IRP… View Summary +

This report provides an overview of the most promising technologies and policies available to Vermont as it crafts a plan for achieving the goals contained in Act 170 of 2012: 90 percent of the energy consumed across all sectors of… View Summary +