Europe could improve its growth prospects and create 500,000 to 1.1 million net additional jobs in 2030 through auto sector innovation. Increased technology to cut fuel consumption would allow the EU to reduce its dependence on foreign oil and deliver between €58 and €83 billion a year in fuel savings for the EU economy by…
Dr. David Crossley, RAP senior advisor, highlights the opportunities and challenges for China’s grid companies to use the energy service company (ESCO) model to achieve the country’s energy efficiency obligation. In an interview with the State Grid Power News (in Mandarin), he reviews the historical evolution of grid company demand-side management in the US, and…
Im Rahmen der ambitionierten Ziele der Energiewende – über 35% erneuerbare Energien bis 2020 – liegt es nun an den Experten, den Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien volkswirtschaftlich optimal zu gestalten. RAP Senior Associate Andreas Jahn betonte im Tagesspiegel die damit verbundenen Herausforderungen für den Ausgleich durch die fluktuierende Erzeugung. “Bisher war der Markt für Regelenergie einseitig…
As part of Germany’s ambitious Energiewende, or energy transition, policymakers are mapping out an economically efficient path to accommodate a steadily increasing supply of renewable energy resources. With stakeholders proposing competing pathways to reliably incorporate renewable energy, senior associate Andreas Jahn injected a dose of reality into the debate. In the German newspaper Tagesspiegel, he…
Richard Cowart, principal and director of European programmes, described energy efficiency as a “huge untapped reservoir of low cost savings to the European economy,” in a recent interview with Sonja van Renssen, environmental journalist at viEUws. As the public debate continues around Europe’s 2030 Energy and Climate framework, Cowart called for an aggressive commitment to energy efficiency…
As US power grid costs rise and the length of outages increases, risk-aware regulation—an approach in which regulators explicitly and proactively seek to identify, understand, and minimize the risks associated with electric utility resource investment, will lead to the efficient deployment of utility resources, the continued financial health of utilities, and the confidence and satisfaction…
Beijing’s January 13, 2013 air pollution episode drew international media attention when PM2.5 levels spiked to 1000 ug/m3—almost 30 times the standard in the US, and well above the 300 ug/m3 threshold the China Air Quality Index considers “heavily polluted.” At the same time, all of eastern China was affected by a pervasive haze that…
In this commentary for Climate Spectator, RAP senior advisor David Crossley sets the record straight on China’s energy efficiency accomplishments. Since the 1980’s, the Chinese government has established a series of wide-reaching energy conservation and energy efficiency policies. As a result, energy intensity has steadily declined since then, with a decrease of 19% from 2006…
The Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) has appointed Dr. Carl Linvill a principal in its U.S. program. Linvill brings nearly 30 years of experience on energy matters to RAP, where he will lead RAP’s work on renewable energy integration and transmission planning in the Western U.S., while serving all regions in meeting today’s energy planning challenges….
